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

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

Aleksandar Kovacevic

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.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Michelsen	Kovacevic
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	2	5
Tot Games	20	53
Pts	62-48	164-148
Total Points	110	312
Winners	27	67
%Winners	44%	41%

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

Serve	Michelsen	Kovacevic
Aces	1	13
Avg per match	1	6.5
1st in	35/56	85/144
%1st in	63%	59%
1st pts	27/35	67/85
%1st pts	77%	79%
2nd pts	16/21	37/59
%2nd pts	76%	63%

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

Breaks	Michelsen	Kovacevic
Won	2	4
Converted	2/3	4/12
% Converted	67%	33%
Conceded	2	3
Saved	2	1
% Saved	100%	33%
Times Broken	0	2

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.

Michelsen
	R2 Cressy	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	62-48	62-48
Total points	110	110
Winners	27	27
%Winners	44%	44%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	35/56	35/56
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	27/35	27/35
% 1st pts	77%	77%
2nd pts	16/21	16/21
% 2nd pts	76%	76%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/3	2/3
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	2/2	2
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Kovacevic
	R1 Mayot	R2 Rinderknech	Total
Score	7-61 6-4	6-3 3-6 7-5
Tot Set	2	3	5
Tot Games	23	30	53
pts	72-57	92-91	164-148
Total points	129	183	312
Winners	31	36	67
%Winners	43%	39%	41%
SERVE
Aces	7	6	13
Double Faults	2	2	4
1st in	35/60	50/84	85/144
% 1st in	58%	60%	59%
1st pts	31/35	36/50	67/85
% 1st pts	89%	72%	79%
2nd pts	17/25	20/34	37/59
% 2nd pts	68%	59%	63%
Breaks
Won	1	3	4
Converted	1/3	3/9	4/12
Converted %	33%	33%	33%
Conceded	0	3	3
Saved	0/0	1/3	1
Saved %	–	33%	33%
Times Broken	0	2	2

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