Tomas Machac and Aleksandar Kovacevic will play each other in the qualifications of the Brisbane International for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 11:30 am on COURT 6. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Machac who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tomas Machac is the pick to win this match.
Tomas Machac -> 1.363
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 2.96
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Prediction and head to head Tomas Machac vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
There is no head to head record between Tomas Machac and Aleksandar Kovacevic since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Tomas Machac
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-19 | 15-9 | 2-5 | 3-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-24 | 22-11 | 9-5 | 5-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-27 | 15-10 | 16-11 | 18-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-19 | 24-6 | 5-2 | 18-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 28-19 | 5-4 | 5-4 | 12-6 | 2-3 | 4-2 |
Ranked no. 78, the Czech got to the qualifications after beating Blake Ellis 7-62 6-2.
In the qualifications, Tomas had a good straight sets win against Ellis (7-62 6-2). During the match, Machac scored 79 points vs Ellis’s 63. Machac was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about the service games, Machac blasted 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Tomas Machac was pretty efficient on serve to win 72% (28/39) of his 1st serve and 66% (19/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Machac broke Ellis 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Machac has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 67% of his matches (220-107). 15-10 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Machac has a composed50-22 record in the last 7 years on hard.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Orleans Challenger where he overcame Jack Draper in the final 6-4 4-6 6-3 and the Captif Challenger where he defeated Arthur Fery in the final 6-3 6-4.
Machac has a composed 52-27 win-loss record in 2023, 15-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Brisbane
Machac has never competed in this tournament before.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-33 | 13-14 | 4-7 | 16-8 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-35 | 20-17 | 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 |
Ranked no. 110, the American reached the qualifications after defeating Federico Gaio 7-65 6-2.
In the qualifications, Kovacevic had a good straight sets win against Gaio (7-65 6-2). During the match Kovacevic scored 94 points vs Gaio’s 81. Aleksandar was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Kovacevic struck 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Aleksandar Kovacevic was quite efficient on serve to win 74% (34/46) of his 1st serve and 53% (23/43) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Gaio 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Cleveland Challenger where he overcame Yibing Wu in the final 3-6 7-5 7-6(2) and the Waco Challenger where he defeated Alexandre Muller in the final 6-3 4-6 6-2 and the Shenzhen 1 Challenger where he overcame Nuno Borges in the final 7-6(4) 7-6(5) and the Temuco Challenger where he beat Gilbert Klier Junior in the final 4-6 6-3 6-3.
The American has a compiled 43-27 win-loss record in 2023, 34-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Machac | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 |
| Pts | 79-63 | 94-81 |
| Total Points | 142 | 175 |
| Winners | 28 | 34 |
| %Winners | 35% | 36% |
Both Machac and Kovacevic played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Machac and Kovacevic have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (21). Machac scored 28 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Kovacevic made 34 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Machac | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 10 |
| 1st in | 39/68 | 46/89 |
| %1st in | 57% | 52% |
| 1st pts | 28/39 | 34/46 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 19/29 | 23/43 |
| %2nd pts | 66% | 53% |
Machac managed to score 7 aces . Kovacevic bagged 10 aces . Machac won 72% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 66% of the points. On the other side, Kovacevic won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Machac | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/11 |
| % Converted | 43% | 27% |
| Conceded | 3 | 8 |
| Saved | 2 | 7 |
| % Saved | 67% | 88% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Tomas broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Tomas dropped his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The American broke his opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. Kovacevic conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.
| Machac | |||
| Q1 Ellis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 79-63 | 79-63 | |
| Total points | 142 | 142 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 39/68 | 39/68 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 28/39 | 28/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/29 | 19/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 66% | 66% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kovacevic | |||
| Q1 Gaio |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 94-81 | 94-81 | |
| Total points | 175 | 175 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 46/89 | 46/89 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 34/46 | 34/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/43 | 23/43 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 3/11 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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