Thanasi Kokkinakis and Matija Pecotic will face off in the 1st round of the Sarasota Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on NICK BOLLETTIERI COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Thanasi Kokkinakis who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Thanasi Kokkinakis is the pick to win this match.
Thanasi Kokkinakis -> 1.138
Matija Pecotic -> 5.2
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Prediction and head to head Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Matija Pecotic
There is no head to head record between Thanasi Kokkinakis and Matija Pecotic since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Thanasi Kokkinakis
9 - 10win/loss
77
65
LWWWWWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-21 | 19-12 | 11-6 | 3-2 | 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. 106, Kokkinakis will start his run in the Sarasota Challenger after he played his last match in Houston where he lost 7-6(3) 6-7(2) 6-4 to Kovacevic in the 1st round on the 2nd of April.
Thanasi has an aggregate 8-10 win-loss record in 2024, 0-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 247-159 record. He has a positive 57-30 record on clay.
Previously in the Sarasota Challenger
Thanasi has never competed in this tournament before.
Matija Pecotic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-9 | 2-4 | 3-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-11 | 12-5 | 4-4 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 4-3 | 3-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-12 | 0-0 | 8-9 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-4 | 14-2 | 2-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 475, Matija got to the 1st round after beating Preston Brown 6-0 6-2 and Gerard Campana Lee 6-4 6-0.
In the qualifications, Matija had a good straight sets win against Campana Lee (6-4 6-0). During the match Pecotic scored 59 points vs Campana Lee’s 38. Matija was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Pecotic scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Matija Pecotic was pretty efficient on serve to win 74% (23/31) of his 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Matija broke Campana Lee 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Pecotic started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 61% of the points he played.
Matija has a compiled 6-4 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sarasota Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Jeff WolfWolf (7-65 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (4-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Patrick KypsonKypson (6-2 3-6 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ethan QuinnQuinn – Clement TaburTabur (6-4 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Martin DammDamm – Toby Alex KodatAlex Kodat (6-71 7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zizou BergsBergs – Oliver CrawfordCrawford (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Calvin HemeryHemery (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Giovanni FonioFonio (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Denis KudlaKudla (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Matija PecoticPecotic – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felix CorwinCorwin – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
