Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Jozef Kovalik will face off in the 1st round of the Nordea Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alejandro Davidovich Fokina who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina is the pick to win this match.
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina -> 1.152
Jozef Kovalik -> 5.4
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Prediction and head to head Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Jozef Kovalik
This will be the 2nd time that Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Jozef Kovalik play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Davidovich Fokina (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Davidovich Fokina won 6-2 6-2 in the 2nd round in Hamburg back in 2022.
Highlights Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs Jozef Kovalik – Hamburg 20-July-2022
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-22 | 13-12 | 2-5 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-28 | 18-11 | 9-8 | 3-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-26 | 7-9 | 11-8 | 0-6 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-25 | 4-6 | 16-7 | 9-10 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-13 | 5-5 | 5-5 | 9-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 35, Alejandro will start his run in Bastad after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 6-3 4-6 3-6 6-4 7-6(8) to Rune in the 3rd round on the 8th of July.
Alejandro has a compiled 21-17 win-loss record in 2023, 8-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Spaniard has an overall 230-161 record. He has a positive 103-63 record on clay.
Previously in Bastad
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
Jozef Kovalik
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-23 | 3-5 | 30-15 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-34 | 1-3 | 21-28 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-23 | 3-6 | 29-13 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-27 | 0-1 | 26-20 | 5-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-16 | 2-3 | 15-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 159, Kovalik reached the 1st round after defeating Viktor Durasovic 6-4 7-5 and Genaro Alberto Olivieri 7-65 6-4.
In the qualifications, Jozef had a good straight sets win against Alberto Olivieri (7-65 6-4). During the match Kovalik scored 75 points vs Alberto Olivieri’s 67. Kovalik was quite aggressive to blast 40 winners.
About the serving games, Kovalik struck 2 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Jozef Kovalik was extremely effective on serve to win 77% (40/52) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kovalik broke Alberto Olivieri twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Slovakian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 55% of the points he played.
Jozef has an aggregate 13-22 win-loss record in 2023, 11-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Bastad
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Luca Van AsscheVan Assche – Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras (7-62 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (5-7 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Filip MisolicMisolic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo DellienDellien – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Pavel KotovKotov (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Alex MolcanMolcan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elias YmerYmer – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian BaezBaez – Federico CoriaCoria (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (0-2) – H2H and prediction
