Thanasi Kokkinakis and Philip Sekulic will play each other in the 2nd round of the Sydney Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Thanasi Kokkinakis who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Thanasi Kokkinakis is the pick to win this match.
Thanasi Kokkinakis -> 1.21
Philip Sekulic -> 4.05
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Prediction and head to head Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Philip Sekulic
There is no head to head record between Thanasi Kokkinakis and Philip Sekulic since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Thanasi Kokkinakis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-14 | 8-9 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-26 | 31-18 | 8-5 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-19 | 19-12 | 2-3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-21 | 15-11 | 18-7 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 67 (career-high), the Australian got to the 2nd round after beating Filip Peliwo 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Peliwo (6-3 6-1). During the match, Kokkinakis scored 71 points vs Peliwo’s 49. Thanasi was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kokkinakis bagged 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Thanasi Kokkinakis was very effective on serve to win 81% (26/32) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Peliwo 4 times after converting 31% of his break points (4/13).
Kokkinakis has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 62% of his matches (224-139). 29-17 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Kokkinakis has an overall151-83 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Manama Challenger where he defeated Abedallah Shelbayh in the final 6-1 6-4.
The Australian has an aggregate 38-25 win-loss record in 2023, 29-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
Kokkinakis has never competed in this tournament before.
Philip Sekulic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-16 | 14-13 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-28 | 33-24 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-23 | 19-15 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-3 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 282, Philip got to the 2nd round after defeating Ajeet Rai 6-2 7-62.
In the 1st round, Sekulic had a good straight sets win against Rai (6-2 7-62). During the match Sekulic scored 70 points vs Rai’s 55. Philip was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Sekulic fired 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Philip Sekulic lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Sekulic put 61% of his first serves in, winning 68% (25/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Rai 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Sekulic’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Swan Hill,M15 Nakhon Si Thammarat and the Granby Challenger.
The Australian has a composed 37-26 win-loss record in 2023, 33-23 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kokkinakis | Sekulic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 21 |
| Pts | 71-49 | 70-55 |
| Total Points | 120 | 125 |
| Winners | 26 | 25 |
| %Winners | 37% | 36% |
Both Kokkinakis and Sekulic played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kokkinakis and Sekulic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kokkinakis played 5 games less than Sekulic. Kokkinakis scored 26 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian blasted 25 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kokkinakis | Sekulic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 5 |
| 1st in | 32/51 | 37/61 |
| %1st in | 63% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 25/37 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 15/24 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 63% |
Kokkinakis struck 9 aces . Sekulic bagged 5 aces . Kokkinakis won 81% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Sekulic won 68% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kokkinakis | Sekulic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/13 | 4/5 |
| % Converted | 31% | 80% |
| Conceded | 5 | 6 |
| Saved | 5 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Kokkinakis broke his opponent 4 times with a 31% conversion rate. Thanasi extremely effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 5 break points. Sekulic broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Sekulic conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kokkinakis | |||
| R1 Peliwo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 71-49 | 71-49 | |
| Total points | 120 | 120 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 32/51 | 32/51 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 26/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 10/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/13 | 4/13 | |
| Converted % | 31% | 31% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Sekulic | |||
| R1 Rai |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 70-55 | 70-55 | |
| Total points | 125 | 125 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 37/61 | 37/61 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 25/37 | 25/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 15/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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