Alex Michelsen and Aleksandar Kovacevic will face off in the quarter of the Infosys Hall of Fame Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Michelsen who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alex Michelsen is the pick to win this match.
Alex Michelsen -> 1.54
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 2.48

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Prediction and head to head Alex Michelsen vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic

This will be the 3^rd time that Alex Michelsen and Aleksandar Kovacevic square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Michelsen (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.

The last time that they squared off, Michelsen won 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the 1^st round in Geneva back in May 2024.

Alex Michelsen

Alex Michelsen

22 - 22win/loss

Hard

11-7

I Hard

1-1

Clay

4-9

Grass

6-5

Rank
42

High
41

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	42-33	26-14	4-9	5-4	7-6	0-0
2023	61-27	30-13	4-3	19-7	8-4	0-0
2022	23-10	14-8	0-1	9-1	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 61, the American got to the quarter after defeating Unknown Player bye, Maxime Cressy 6-4 6-4 and Aleksandar Kovacevic .

In the 2^nd round, Alex had a good straight sets win against Cressy (6-4 6-4). During the match, Michelsen scored 62 points vs Cressy’s 48. Alex was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Regarding the service games, Michelsen scored just 1 ace and he committed only 1 double fault. Alex Michelsen was very effective on serve to win 77% (27/35) of his 1st serve and 76% (16/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alex broke Cressy twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Michelsen has a solid record in the last 3 years having won 64% of his matches (105-59). 5-5 on grass in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Michelsen has a compiled13-9 win-loss record in the last 3 years on grass.

Michelsen has an overall 21-22 win-loss record in 2024, 5-5 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Newport

Newport

Michelsen's Record

Aleksandar Kovacevic

Aleksandar Kovacevic

21 - 20win/loss

Hard

14-7

I Hard

0-1

Clay

5-8

Grass

2-4

Rank
96

High
72

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	28-34	19-16	5-8	2-6	2-4	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

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Ranked no. 91, the American reached the quarter after beating Harold Mayot 7-6(1) 6-4 and Arthur Rinderknech 6-3 3-6 7-5.

In the 2^nd round, Kovacevic defeated Rinderknech (6-3 3-6 7-5). During the match Kovacevic scored 92 points vs Rinderknech’s 91. The American was quite aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Talking about serving, Kovacevic managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Aleksandar Kovacevic was very efficient on serve to win 72% (36/50) of his 1st serve and 59% (20/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Kovacevic broke Rinderknech 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Aleksandar has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

Aleksandar has an overall 21-19 win-loss record in 2024, 2-3 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Newport

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2023. See his history.

Newport

Kovacevic's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Michelsen played 1 match while Kovacevic competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Aleksandar Kovacevic dropped 1 set while Alex Michelsen hasn’t lost a set so far. Michelsen has played 3 set(s) less than Kovacevic (2 vs 5). Therefore, Michelsen played 33 games less than Kovacevic. The American scored 27 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Aleksandar fired 67 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Michelsen managed to score 1 ace . Kovacevic also recorded 13 aces (6.5 per match). Michelsen won 77% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 76% of the points. On the other side, Kovacevic won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.

How they played the important points

Michelsen broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Alex was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points. Aleksandar broke his opponents 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Aleksandar conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Alex
Michelsen

3:0

Aleksandar
Kovacevic

Rank

42

High

41

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1Grass0

Rank

96

High

72

Win Loss

Michelsen

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2024 2023 2022

42 - 33

28 - 34

26-14

Hard

19-16

5-4

I Hard

2-6

4-9

Clay

5-8

7-6

Grass

2-4

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Michelsen

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Kovacevic