Tristan Schoolkate and Philip Sekulic will square off in the 1^st round of the Lexington Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tristan Schoolkate who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tristan Schoolkate is the pick to win this match.
Tristan Schoolkate -> 1.72
Philip Sekulic -> 2.04

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Prediction and head to head Tristan Schoolkate vs. Philip Sekulic

This will be the 3^rd time that Tristan Schoolkate and Philip Sekulic clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Schoolkate won 4-6 6-4 6-3 in the final in M25 Swan Hill back in February 2023.

Tristan Schoolkate

Ranked no. 268, Tristan will start his run in the Lexington Challenger after he played his last match in the Salinas Challenger where he lost 7-5 7-6(7) to Pecotic in the 1^st round on the 25^th of July.

Tristan has an aggregate 35-21 win-loss record in 2023, 23-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The Australian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Swan Hill.

Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 117-79 record. He has a positive 65-48 record on hard.

Previously in the Lexington Challenger

The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.

Philip Sekulic

Ranked no. 335 (career-high), Philip reached the 1^st round after defeating Kousuke Ogura w/o and Justin Roberts 6-1 6-4.

In the qualifications, Philip had a good straight sets win against Roberts (6-1 6-4). During the match Sekulic scored 59 points vs Roberts’s 40. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.

About the serving games, Sekulic scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Philip Sekulic was pretty effective on serve to win 88% (30/34) of his 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Philip broke Roberts 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

The Australian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Swan Hill,M15 Nakhon Si Thammarat and the Granby Challenger.

Sekulic has an overall 29-16 win-loss record in 2023, 25-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Lexington Challenger

• Steve JohnsonJohnson – Billy HarrisHarris (7-6⁵ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri – Christian HarrisonHarrison (7-6⁴ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Joshua LapadatLapadat (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer – Martin DammDamm (6-7⁴ 7-6⁵ 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Adam WaltonWalton – Maxime JanvierJanvier (4-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Bernard TomicTomic – Stefan DostanicDostanic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – Omar JasikaJasika (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tung-Lin WuWu – Christian LangmoLangmo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nathan PonwithPonwith – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aidan MchughMchugh – Ulises BlanchBlanch (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tristan BoyerBoyer – Dane SweenySweeny (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Cannon KingsleyKingsley – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (1-0) – H2H and prediction