Aleksandar Vukic and Thanasi Kokkinakis will face off in the 2nd round of the Citi Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on GRANDSTAND. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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
Aleksandar Vukic -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Vukic vs. Thanasi Kokkinakis
This will be the 2nd time that Aleksandar Vukic and Thanasi Kokkinakis face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kokkinakis (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Kokkinakis won 6-7(5) 6-3 6-2 in the quarter in Adelaide back in 2022.
Highlights Thanasi Kokkinakis vs Aleksandar Vukic – Adelaide 13-January-2022
Aleksandar Vukic
20 - 26win/loss
85
48
LLWWLWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-26 | 5-10 | 5-9 | 0-0 | 10-7 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-33 | 34-20 | 9-4 | 1-3 | 4-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-25 | 14-15 | 4-5 | 12-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-26 | 8-5 | 10-11 | 11-7 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 22-12 | 10-4 | 9-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 85, Vukic will start his run in Washington after he played his last match in Atlanta where he lost 1-6 6-4 3-1 ret. to Bellucci in the 1st round on the 23rd of July.
Aleksandar has an aggregate 20-26 win-loss record in 2024, 5-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Australian’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Phoenix Challenger and Eastbourne.
Talking about his overall career, Aleksandar has an overall 298-227 record. He has a positive 142-112 record on hard.
Previously in Washington
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
Thanasi Kokkinakis
22 - 16win/loss
91
65
WLWWLWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-16 | 9-9 | 11-6 | 0-0 | 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. 91, Thanasi got to the 2nd round after beating Max Purcell 6-7(4) 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round against Purcell, Thanasi recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-74 6-4 6-3). During the match Kokkinakis scored 100 points vs Purcell’s 77. Kokkinakis was quite aggressive to blast 40 winners.
About the serving games, Kokkinakis scored 15 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Thanasi Kokkinakis was extremely effective on serve to win 93% (40/43) of his 1st serve and 80% (24/30) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Thanasi broke Purcell 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Sarasota Challenger where he overcame Zizou Bergs in the final 6-3 1-6 6-0.
Thanasi has an overall 22-16 win-loss record in 2024, 9-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Washington
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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WLWWLWWLWW Tennis Scores in Washington
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Cristian GarinGarin (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- 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
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
