Philip Sekulic and Ramkumar Ramanathan will square off in the quarter of the Kachreti Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Philip Sekulic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Philip Sekulic is the pick to win this match.
Philip Sekulic -> 1.615
Ramkumar Ramanathan -> 2.18
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Prediction and head to head Philip Sekulic vs. Ramkumar Ramanathan
There is no head to head record between Philip Sekulic and Ramkumar Ramanathan since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Philip Sekulic
16 - 16win/loss
342
225
WWWLWLLWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-29 | 31-24 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-28 | 33-24 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-23 | 19-15 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-3 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 245 (career-high), Sekulic reached the quarter after beating Hamish Stewart 6-3 6-4 and Robert Strombachs 7-66 7-66.
In the 2nd round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Strombachs (7-66 7-66). During the match, Sekulic scored 76 points vs Strombachs’s 69. Philip was exceptionally aggressive to blast 42 winners.
Talking about the service games, Sekulic managed to score 17 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Philip Sekulic was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 86% (42/49) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Strombachs once.
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 55% of the points he played.
Sekulic has a winning record in the last 6 years having won 56% of his matches (92-73). 16-13 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Sekulic has a composed78-58 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
Philip’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Wuxi Challenger.
Philip has a compiled 16-16 win-loss record in 2024, 16-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kachreti Challenger
Sekulic has never competed in this tournament before.
Ramkumar Ramanathan
19 - 10win/loss
308
111
LLLWLWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-25 | 22-22 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-21 | 25-12 | 0-6 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 15-34 | 4-13 | 4-8 | 2-6 | 4-6 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 45-32 | 23-11 | 8-7 | 5-8 | 7-4 | 2-2 |
| 2020 | 8-18 | 3-8 | 0-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 5-2 |
Ranked no. 343, the Indian reached the quarter after defeating Yshai Oliel 6-3 7-5 and Ulises Blanch 6-1 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Ramanathan had a good straight sets win against Blanch (6-1 6-4). During the match Ramanathan scored 60 points vs Blanch’s 36. The Indian was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Ramanathan managed to score 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ramkumar Ramanathan was pretty effective on serve to win 84% (32/38) of his 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ramkumar broke Blanch 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ramanathan hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 61% of the points he played.
Ramkumar’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 New Delhi and M15 Chandigarh.
Ramanathan has a composed 19-10 win-loss record in 2024, 18-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sekulic | Ramanathan |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 45 | 38 |
| Pts | 134-108 | 123-78 |
| Total Points | 242 | 201 |
| Winners | 69 | 64 |
| %Winners | 51% | 52% |
Both Sekulic and Ramanathan played 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sekulic and Ramanathan have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Sekulic played 7 games more than Ramanathan. Philip scored 69 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, Ramanathan recorded 64 winners (52%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sekulic | Ramanathan |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 20 | 23 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 11.5 |
| 1st in | 81/117 | 74/103 |
| %1st in | 69% | 72% |
| 1st pts | 69/81 | 64/74 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 86% |
| 2nd pts | 25/36 | 21/29 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 72% |
Sekulic fired 20 aces (10 per match). Ramanathan bagged 23 aces (11.5 per match). Sekulic won 85% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Ramanathan won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 72% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sekulic | Ramanathan |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 5/11 |
| % Converted | 60% | 45% |
| Conceded | 2 | 3 |
| Saved | 1 | 3 |
| % Saved | 50% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Sekulic broke his opponents 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Sekulic dropped his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Ramkumar broke his opponents 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Ramkumar was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Sekulic | ||||
| R1 Stewart |
R2 Strombachs |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | 7-66 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 26 | 45 | |
| pts | 58-39 | 76-69 | 134-108 | |
| Total points | 97 | 145 | 242 | |
| Winners | 27 | 42 | 69 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 55% | 51% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 17 | 20 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 32/48 | 49/69 | 81/117 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 71% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 27/32 | 42/49 | 69/81 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 86% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/16 | 11/20 | 25/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 88% | 55% | 69% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 1/1 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 100% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 0/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 0% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Ramanathan | ||||
| R1 Oliel |
R2 Blanch |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 17 | 38 | |
| pts | 63-42 | 60-36 | 123-78 | |
| Total points | 105 | 96 | 201 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | 64 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 53% | 52% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 15 | 8 | 23 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 36/50 | 38/53 | 74/103 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 72% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 32/36 | 32/38 | 64/74 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 84% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/14 | 9/15 | 21/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 86% | 60% | 72% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 3/4 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 75% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | – | 100% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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