Felix Auger-Aliassime and Aleksandar Kovacevic will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Western & Southern Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on HOLCIM STADIUM 3. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Felix Auger-Aliassime who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Felix Auger-Aliassime is the pick to win this match.
Felix Auger-Aliassime -> 1.33
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 3.34
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Prediction and head to head Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
There is no head to head record between Felix Auger-Aliassime and Aleksandar Kovacevic since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Felix Auger-Aliassime
25 - 19win/loss
19
6
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 25-19 | 4-6 | 17-8 | 4-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
2023 | 23-19 | 13-13 | 1-3 | 9-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 60-27 | 14-9 | 11-7 | 31-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
2021 | 38-24 | 19-10 | 4-6 | 5-5 | 10-3 | 0-0 |
2020 | 23-19 | 8-8 | 1-3 | 14-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 19, the Canadian will start his run in Cincinnati after he played his last match in Montreal where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Cobolli in the 1st round on the 7th of August.
Felix has an aggregate 25-19 win-loss record in 2024, 4-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Canadian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Madrid.
Talking about his overall career, Auger-Aliassime has an overall 332-197 record. He has a positive 105-79 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2021 and 2022. See his history.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
25 - 23win/loss
79
79
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 25-23 | 18-10 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 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 |
Ranked no. 79 (career-high), the American reached the 1st round after defeating Pedro Martinez Portero 4-6 6-2 6-4 and Rinky Hijikata 6-1 7-6(5).
In the qualifications, Aleksandar had a good straight sets win against Hijikata (6-1 7-65). During the match Kovacevic scored 70 points vs Hijikata’s 53. Aleksandar was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Kovacevic bagged 11 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Aleksandar Kovacevic was quite effective on serve to win 90% (27/30) of his 1st serve and 59% (20/34) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kovacevic broke Hijikata twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Aleksandar started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Kovacevic has a composed 25-23 win-loss record in 2024, 18-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Aleksandar has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (6-1 5-7 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Nicolas JarryJarry (4-6 7-65 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Ugo HumbertHumbert (3-6 6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sebastian BaezBaez – Marcos GironGiron (6-4 5-7 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (6-3 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Mariano NavoneNavone (7-63 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Taylor FritzFritz (6-4 4-6 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur FilsFils – Brandon HoltHolt (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luciano DarderiDarderi – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (6-3 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ben SheltonShelton – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (7-63 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Tommy PaulPaul (6-2 4-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur Fils/Nicolas JarryFils/Nicolas Jarry – Sander Gille/Joran VliegenGille/Joran Vliegen (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Santiago Gonzalez/Edouard Roger-VasselinGonzalez/Edouard Roger-Vasselin – Lloyd Glasspool/Ugo HumbertGlasspool/Ugo Humbert (3-6 6-3 10-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Max PurcellPurcell – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Jannik SinnerSinner – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Sebastian BaezBaez – Jordan ThompsonThompson (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (1-1) – H2H and prediction
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