Karen Khachanov and Tomas Machac will clash against each other in the 3^rd round of the Australian Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:00 am on Kia Arena. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karen Khachanov who should win in 4 sets.

As per the initial odds, Karen Khachanov is the pick to win this match.
Karen Khachanov -> 1.43
Tomas Machac -> 2.84

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Prediction and head to head Karen Khachanov vs. Tomas Machac

There is no head to head record between Karen Khachanov and Tomas Machac since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Karen Khachanov

Karen Khachanov

2 - 1win/loss

Hard

2-1

I Hard

0-0

Rank
22

High
8

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	23-17	12-9	8-4	2-1	1-3	0-0
2023	34-18	18-10	10-5	6-3	0-0	0-0
2022	36-25	17-11	9-7	6-5	4-2	0-0
2021	35-24	17-9	5-6	8-6	5-3	0-0
2020	20-15	12-6	4-3	4-6	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 15, Khachanov reached the 3^rd round after beating Daniel Altmaier 5-7 6-3 7-6⁵ 7-6³ and Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-4 6-3 4-6 6-3.

In the 2^nd round, Karen had a good straight sets win against Kovacevic (6-4 6-3 4-6 6-3). During the match, Khachanov scored 119 points vs Kovacevic’s 98. Karen was quite aggressive to blast 51 winners.

Regarding the service games, Khachanov buried his opponent with 22 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Karen Khachanov was extremely efficient on serve to win 75% (51/68) of his 1st serve and 63% (22/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Khachanov broke Kovacevic 6 times after converting 50% of his break points (6/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Khachanov has lost 2 set in this competition to win 53% of the points he played.

Khachanov has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (338-217). 2-1 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Khachanov has an aggregate 137-84 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Khachanov has a compiled 2-1 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Australian Open

Khachanov's Record

Tomas Machac

Tomas Machac

5 - 2win/loss

Hard

5-2

I Hard

0-0

Rank
39

High
33

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	27-16	15-8	9-5	2-1	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
2020	27-12	0-0	12-6	15-5	0-0	0-1

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Ranked no. 75, Tomas reached the 3^rd round after beating Shintaro Mochizuki 7-5 6-1 7-5 and Frances Tiafoe 6-4 6-4 7-6⁵.

In the 2^nd round, Tomas had a good straight sets win against Tiafoe (6-4 6-4 7-6⁵). During the match Machac scored 121 points vs Tiafoe’s 104. Tomas was exceptionally aggressive to blast 50 winners.

Talking about serving, Machac scored 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Tomas Machac lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Machac put 68% of his first serves in, winning 76% (50/66) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (15/31) on the 2nd serve. Tomas broke Tiafoe 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Tomas hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

Machac has a compiled 5-2 win-loss record in 2024, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2021 and 2022. See his history.

Australian Open

Machac's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Khachanov and Machac played 2 matches. At the moment, Karen Khachanov surrendered 2 sets while Tomas Machac hasn’t lost a set so far. Khachanov has played 2 sets more than Machac (8 vs 6). Therefore, Khachanov played 21 games more than Machac. Karen scored 116 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Machac recorded 106 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Khachanov struck 37 aces (18.5 per match). Machac struck 14 aces (7 per match). Khachanov won 76% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Machac won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points.

How they played the important points

Karen broke his opponents 10 times with a 42% conversion rate. Karen conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Czech broke his opponents 10 times with a 42% conversion rate. Tomas conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Karen
Khachanov

1:0

Tomas
Machac

Rank

22

High

8

1Hard0

Rank

39

High

33

Win Loss

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2024 2023 2022

23 - 17

27 - 16

12-9

Hard

15-8

2-1

I Hard

2-1

8-4

Clay

9-5

1-3

Grass

1-2

Tennis Scores – Australian Open

• Casper RuudRuud – Max PurcellPurcell (6-3 6-7⁵ 6-3 3-6 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Sebastian BaezBaez – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (7-5 2-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Luca Van AsscheVan Assche – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-3 3-6 6-7⁵ 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Sebastian KordaKorda – Quentin HalysHalys (6-4 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Andrey RublevRublev – Christopher EubanksEubanks (6-4 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Taylor FritzFritz – Hugo GastonGaston (6-0 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Jannik SinnerSinner – Jesper De JongDe Jong (6-2 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Tomas MachacMachac – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-4 6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-4 6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-4 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Jordan ThompsonThompson (4-6 7-6⁶ 6-2 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Ben SheltonShelton – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-4 6-1 3-6 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (6-3 6-3 1-6 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (7-6⁵ 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Flavio CobolliCobolli – Pavel KotovKotov (7-5 6-3 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (6-3 6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-3 4-6 7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Casper RuudRuud – Max PurcellPurcell (6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 3-6 7-6(7)) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander ZverevZverev – Lukas KleinKlein (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sumit NagalNagal – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tommy PaulPaul – Jack DraperDraper (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nuno BorgesBorges – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Hugo GrenierGrenier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sebastian KordaKorda – Andrey RublevRublev (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Jannik SinnerSinner – Sebastian BaezBaez (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tomas MachacMachac – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – (0-0) – H2H and prediction

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