Aleksandar Kovacevic and Thanasi Kokkinakis will fight against each other in the 1st round of the US Men’s Clay Court Championship for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on STADIUM COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Thanasi Kokkinakis who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Thanasi Kokkinakis is the pick to win this match.
Thanasi Kokkinakis -> 1.68
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
There is no head to head record between Aleksandar Kovacevic and Thanasi Kokkinakis since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
15 - 8win/loss
88
83
LLLLLWWLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-19 | 14-7 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 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. 98, Aleksandar will start his run in Houston after he played his last match in Miami where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Marozsan in the 1st round on the 21st of March.
The American has a compiled 14-8 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Kovacevic has an overall 166-122 record. He has a negative 14-16 record on clay.
Previously in Houston
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
Thanasi Kokkinakis
8 - 10win/loss
93
65
LWWLWWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-16 | 8-9 | 11-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 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. 104, Thanasi will start his run in Houston after he played his last match in Miami where he lost 6-4 4-1 ret. to Grenier in the qualifications on the 18th of March.
Kokkinakis has a compiled 8-9 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
In terms of his career, Thanasi has an overall 247-158 record. He has a positive 57-29 record on clay.
Previously in Houston
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2014. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Jeff WolfWolf – Alexander RitschardRitschard (6-3 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zizou BergsBergs – Patrick KypsonKypson (7-65 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Christopher EubanksEubanks (7-64 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marcos GironGiron – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Yibing WuWu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Benoit PairePaire (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Michael MmohMmoh – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
