Philip Sekulic and Hiroki Moriya will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Burnie 2 Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Hiroki Moriya who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Hiroki Moriya is the pick to win this match.
Hiroki Moriya -> 1.87
Philip Sekulic -> 1.87

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Prediction and head to head Philip Sekulic vs. Hiroki Moriya

This will be the 2^nd time that Philip Sekulic and Hiroki Moriya square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Sekulic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Sekulic won 7-6(2) 6-7(4) 7-6(5) in the 2^nd round in the Burnie Challenger back in 2023.

Philip Sekulic

Ranked no. 280, Philip got to the 2^nd round after beating Maxime Chazal 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Chazal (6-3 6-4). During the match, Sekulic scored 70 points vs Chazal’s 55. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about the service games, Sekulic fired 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Philip Sekulic was extremely effective on serve to win 74% (35/47) of his 1st serve and 54% (7/13) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Philip broke Chazal 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).

Sekulic has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 57% of his matches (78-60). 2-3 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Sekulic has a compiled64-48 match record in the last 6 years on hard.

Philip has an overall 2-3 win-loss record in 2024, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Burnie 2 Challenger

Hiroki Moriya

Ranked no. 350, the Japanese reached the 2^nd

round after beating Matthew Dellavedova 6-2 6-0.

In the 1^st round, Hiroki had a good straight sets win against Dellavedova (6-2 6-0). During the match Moriya scored 53 points vs Dellavedova’s 28. Hiroki was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about serving, Moriya scored 2 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Hiroki Moriya was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 88% (21/24) of his 1st serve and 58% (7/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Hiroki broke Dellavedova 5 times after converting 38% of his break points (5/13).

Hiroki has an overall 9-3 win-loss record in 2024, 9-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Sekulic	Moriya
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	14
Pts	70-55	53-28
Total Points	125	81
Winners	35	21
%Winners	50%	40%

Both Sekulic and Moriya played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sekulic and Moriya have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sekulic played 5 games more than Moriya. The Australian scored 35 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, Moriya bagged 21 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Sekulic	Moriya
Aces	4	2
Avg per match	4	2
1st in	47/60	24/36
%1st in	78%	67%
1st pts	35/47	21/24
%1st pts	74%	88%
2nd pts	7/13	7/12
%2nd pts	54%	58%

Sekulic fired 4 aces . Moriya managed to score 2 aces . Sekulic won 74% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Moriya won 88% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Sekulic	Moriya
Won	3	5
Converted	3/8	5/13
% Converted	38%	38%
Conceded	7	0
Saved	6	0
% Saved	86%	0%
Times Broken	1	0

Philip broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Sekulic surrendered his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded. Moriya broke his opponent 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. Hiroki was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Sekulic
	R1 Chazal	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	70-55	70-55
Total points	125	125
Winners	35	35
%Winners	50%	50%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	47/60	47/60
% 1st in	78%	78%
1st pts	35/47	35/47
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	7/13	7/13
% 2nd pts	54%	54%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/8	3/8
Converted %	38%	38%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	6/7	6
Saved %	86%	86%
Times Broken	1	1

Moriya
	R1 Dellavedova	Total
Score	6-2 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	14	14
pts	53-28	53-28
Total points	81	81
Winners	21	21
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	24/36	24/36
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	21/24	21/24
% 1st pts	88%	88%
2nd pts	7/12	7/12
% 2nd pts	58%	58%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/13	5/13
Converted %	38%	38%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Burnie 2 Challenger

• Adam WaltonWalton – Jacob BradshawBradshaw (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Christian LangmoLangmo – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Makoto OchiOchi – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Omar JasikaJasika – Hayden JonesJones (6-3 7-6³) – See score progression
• Matthew HulmeHulme – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Alex BoltBolt (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Andre IlaganIlagan – Calum PuttergillPuttergill (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Takuya KumasakaKumasaka (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Stefanos SakellaridisSakellaridis (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Philip SekulicSekulic – Maxime ChazalChazal (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Dane SweenySweeny – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• James McCabeMcCabe – Blake EllisEllis (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi – Mikalai HaliakHaliak (6-1 6-7³ 6-3) – See score progression
• Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
• Omar JasikaJasika – Hayden JonesJones (6-3 7-6(3)) – See score progression
• Makoto OchiOchi – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Takuya KumasakaKumasaka (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
• Christian LangmoLangmo – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (7-6(5) 6-4) – See score progression
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Alex BoltBolt (6-3 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Luke SavilleSaville – Benjamin LockLock (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Matthew HulmeHulme (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Li TuTu – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Omar JasikaJasika – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Christian LangmoLangmo – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Makoto OchiOchi – Dane SweenySweeny (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Adam WaltonWalton – Andre IlaganIlagan (0-0) – H2H and prediction