Cooper Williams and Aleksandar Kovacevic will play each other in the 1st round of the Champaign Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aleksandar Kovacevic who should win in 2 sets.
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 1.144
Cooper Williams -> 5.05
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Prediction and head to head Cooper Williams vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
There is no head to head record between Cooper Williams and Aleksandar Kovacevic since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Cooper Williams
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-12 | 5-7 | 0-1 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 9-12 | 3-5 | 4-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 9-10 | 6-5 | 1-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Williams reached the 1st round after beating Pedro Vives Marcos 6-2 6-2 and Evan Zhu 5-7 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications against Zhu, The American recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-4 7-5). During the match, Williams scored 112 points vs Zhu’s 102. Cooper was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about the service games, Williams bagged 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Cooper Williams lost the serve 6 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Williams put 54% of his first serves in, winning 69% (38/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (22/47) on the 2nd serve. Cooper broke Zhu 7 times after converting 32% of his break points (7/22).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Cooper started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has surrendered 1 set in this event to conquer 54% of the points he played.
Williams has a losing record in the last 3 years having won 48% of his matches (21-23). 2-2 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Williams has a compiled4-3 record in the last 3 years on indoor hard courts.
The American has an overall 9-11 win-loss record in 2023, 2-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Champaign Challenger
Cooper has never competed in this tournament before.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-34 | 19-16 | 5-8 | 2-6 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-27 | 34-15 | 0-5 | 7-2 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-31 | 22-18 | 4-4 | 15-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-17 | 11-10 | 2-3 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 117, Kovacevic will start his run in the Champaign Challenger after he played his last match in the Knoxville Challenger where he lost 6-4 3-6 7-6(1) to Holt in the 1st round on the 6th of November.
Aleksandar has an overall 36-25 win-loss record in 2023, 5-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Cleveland Challenger where he beat Yibing Wu in the final 3-6 7-5 7-6(2) and the Waco Challenger where he beat Alexandre Muller in the final 6-3 4-6 6-2 and the Shenzhen 1 Challenger where he defeated Nuno Borges in the final 7-6(4) 7-6(5).
In terms of his career, Aleksandar has an overall 145-112 record. He has a positive 37-24 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Champaign Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Champaign Challenger
- Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (7-5 5-4 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karlis OzolinsOzolins – Stefan KozlovKozlov (2-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz – Gabriel DebruDebru (7-67 3-6 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Aidan MayoMayo (6-3 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Bernard TomicTomic – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Denis KudlaKudla – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (7-1) – H2H and prediction
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Titouan DroguetDroguet (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mark WhitehouseWhitehouse – Patrick KypsonKypson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aidan MchughMchugh – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chris RodeschRodesch – Alex RybakovRybakov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emilio NavaNava – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hunter HeckHeck – (0-0) – H2H and prediction