Roberto Carballes Baena and Aleksandar Kovacevic will face off in the 2^nd round of the Citi Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aleksandar Kovacevic who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Aleksandar Kovacevic is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 1.49
Roberto Carballes Baena -> 2.625

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Prediction and head to head Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic

There is no head to head record between Roberto Carballes Baena and Aleksandar Kovacevic since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Roberto Carballes Baena

Ranked no. 53, Carballes Baena will start his run in Washington after he played his last match in Kitzbuhel where he lost 6-2 7-6(5) to Gaston in the 2^nd round on the 24^th of July.

Carballes Baena has an aggregate 24-20 win-loss record in 2024, 4-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Braunschweig Challenger where he defeated Botic Van De Zandschulp in the final 6-1 6-3.

Talking about his overall career, The Spaniard has an overall 557-389 record. He has a negative 33-55 record on hard.

Previously in Washington

Roberto has never competed in this tournament before.

Aleksandar Kovacevic

Ranked no. 82 (career-high), the American got to the 2^nd round after beating Yoshihito Nishioka 4-6 6-4 6-2.

In the 1^st round against Nishioka, The American recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-2). During the match Kovacevic scored 108 points vs Nishioka’s 96. Aleksandar was pretty aggressive to blast 48 winners.

Talking about serving, Kovacevic managed to score 19 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Aleksandar Kovacevic lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Kovacevic put 58% of his first serves in, winning 80% (48/60) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (20/44) on the 2nd serve. Kovacevic broke Nishioka 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Aleksandar has an aggregate 22-21 win-loss record in 2024, 15-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Washington

• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (6-7⁸ 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Jeff WolfWolf (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sebastian KordaKorda – Cristian GarinGarin (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Radu AlbotAlbot – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• David GoffinGoffin – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Aleksandar VukicVukic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Jordan ThompsonThompson (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Andrey RublevRublev – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (4-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-0) – H2H and prediction