Alex Michelsen and Borna Coric will play each other in the qualifications of the Japan Open Tennis Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COLISEUM. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Michelsen who should win in 3 sets.
Alex Michelsen -> 1.61
Borna Coric -> 2.2
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Prediction and head to head Alex Michelsen vs. Borna Coric
There is no head to head record between Alex Michelsen and Borna Coric since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Alex Michelsen
34 - 28win/loss
45
43
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-30 | 26-14 | 4-9 | 1-1 | 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 |
Ranked no. 49, Michelsen got to the qualifications after defeating Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Alex had a good straight sets win against Uchiyama (6-3 6-4). During the match, Michelsen scored 59 points vs Uchiyama’s 46. Michelsen was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Regarding the service games, Michelsen managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alex Michelsen was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 88% (30/34) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Uchiyama twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Michelsen has a solid match record in the last 3 years having won 64% of his matches (118-65). 22-12 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Michelsen has a compiled66-33 win-loss record in the last 3 years on hard.
The American’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in Newport and Salem.
Alex has an overall 34-28 win-loss record in 2024, 22-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Alex has never competed in this tournament before.
Borna Coric
19 - 22win/loss
96
12
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-24 | 8-13 | 3-7 | 7-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-19 | 10-10 | 9-5 | 3-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-17 | 10-5 | 10-9 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-12 | 6-5 | 4-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 98, Borna reached the qualifications after defeating Damir Dzumhur 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Croatian had a good straight sets win against Dzumhur (6-3 6-4). During the match Coric scored 72 points vs Dzumhur’s 57. Coric was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Coric made 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Borna Coric was pretty efficient on serve to win 77% (34/44) of his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Coric broke Dzumhur twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Borna’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Neuve Challenger and Montpellier.
The Croatian has an overall 19-22 win-loss record in 2024, 8-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Michelsen | Coric |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 |
| Pts | 59-46 | 72-57 |
| Total Points | 105 | 129 |
| Winners | 30 | 34 |
| %Winners | 51% | 47% |
Both Michelsen and Coric played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Michelsen and Coric have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (19). The American scored 30 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, The Croatian managed to score 34 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Michelsen | Coric |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 9 |
| 1st in | 34/52 | 44/68 |
| %1st in | 65% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 30/34 | 34/44 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 15/24 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 63% |
Michelsen managed to score 5 aces . Coric managed to score 9 aces . Michelsen won 88% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Coric won 77% of the points on 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 | Coric |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 2 |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| % Converted | 40% | 40% |
| Conceded | 0 | 5 |
| Saved | 0 | 5 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Alex broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. The American was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Croatian broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Borna was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.
| Michelsen | |||
| Q1 Uchiyama | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 59-46 | 59-46 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 34/52 | 34/52 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 30/34 | 30/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Coric | |||
| Q1 Dzumhur | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 72-57 | 72-57 | |
| Total points | 129 | 129 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 44/68 | 44/68 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 34/44 | 34/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 15/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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