Thanasi Kokkinakis and Gregoire Barrere will square off in the 1st round of the Bucharest Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 2. 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 -> 1.63
Gregoire Barrere -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Gregoire Barrere
This will be the 2nd time that Thanasi Kokkinakis and Gregoire Barrere square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kokkinakis (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Kokkinakis won 7-6(5) 6-7(4) 6-4 in the quarter in the St. Tropez Challenger back in 2021.
Thanasi Kokkinakis
13 - 10win/loss
79
65
LWWLWLWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-20 | 14-12 | 11-6 | 2-1 | 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. 94, Kokkinakis will start his run in Bucharest after he won the title in the Sarasota Challenger after beating 6-3 1-6 6-0 Bergs in the final.
Thanasi has an overall 13-10 win-loss record in 2024, 5-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Sarasota Challenger where he defeated Zizou Bergs in the final 6-3 1-6 6-0.
Kokkinakis won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Kokkinakis has an overall 252-159 record. He has a positive 62-30 record on clay.
Previously in Bucharest
Kokkinakis has never competed in this tournament before.
Gregoire Barrere
8 - 12win/loss
149
49
LLLLLLLWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-26 | 1-4 | 16-12 | 3-8 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-31 | 8-12 | 5-7 | 17-8 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-29 | 10-7 | 8-10 | 25-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-23 | 7-4 | 3-6 | 11-10 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-13 | 9-6 | 0-1 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 128, Barrere got to the 1st round after beating Nicholas David Ionel 6-4 6-3 and Lucas Pouille 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Pouille (6-4 7-5). During the match Barrere scored 77 points vs Pouille’s 66. Barrere was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Barrere scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Gregoire Barrere was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 72% (34/47) of his 1st serve and 59% (19/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Barrere broke Pouille 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Barrere started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Barrere has an aggregate 8-12 win-loss record in 2024, 4-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LLLLLLLWLW Tennis Scores in Bucharest
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-64 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – David GoffinGoffin (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sadio Doumbia/Fabien ReboulDoumbia/Fabien Reboul – Tallon Griekspoor/Bart StevensGriekspoor/Bart Stevens (7-69 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Harri Heliovaara/Henry PattenHeliovaara/Henry Patten – Cezar Cretu/Filip Cristian JianuCretu/Filip Cristian Jianu (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Valentin VacherotVacherot (7-68 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (3-6 7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Carlos TabernerTaberner (6-1 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Joao FonsecaFonseca – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (7-65 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Hugo GastonGaston (6-76 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mariano NavoneNavone – Luciano DarderiDarderi (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico CoriaCoria – Benjamin BonziBonzi (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Luca NardiNardi (6-3 6-75 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Corentin MoutetMoutet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Mariano NavoneNavone (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Federico CoriaCoria (3-6) – H2H and prediction
