Frances Tiafoe and Aleksandar Vukic will fight against each other in the quarter of the Almaty Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 3:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Frances Tiafoe who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Frances Tiafoe is the pick to win this match.
Frances Tiafoe -> 1.44
Aleksandar Vukic -> 2.79
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Prediction and head to head Frances Tiafoe vs. Aleksandar Vukic
This will be the 2nd time that Frances Tiafoe and Aleksandar Vukic fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Tiafoe (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Tiafoe won 4-6 7-6(7) 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Dallas Challenger back in 2020.
Highlights Frances Tiafoe vs Aleksandar Vukic – Dallas Challenger 04-February-2020
Frances Tiafoe
32 - 24win/loss
18
10
LLWLWLWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-27 | 21-13 | 5-6 | 4-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-21 | 21-10 | 8-4 | 4-5 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-25 | 19-11 | 8-6 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-27 | 19-13 | 4-7 | 10-4 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-15 | 7-9 | 6-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 15, Tiafoe reached the quarter after defeating Unknown Player bye and Daniel Evans 6-7(10) 7-6(4) 6-3.
In the 2nd round against Evans, Tiafoe recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-710 7-64 6-3). During the match, Tiafoe scored 124 points vs Evans’s 109. Tiafoe was quite aggressive to blast 52 winners.
Talking about the service games, Tiafoe submerged his opponent with 21 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Frances Tiafoe was quite efficient on serve to win 73% (52/71) of his 1st serve and 71% (24/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Tiafoe broke Evans 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Tiafoe has winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (353-247). 3-2 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Tiafoe has a composed 54-48 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
The American’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Houston and Cincinnati.
The American has an aggregate 32-24 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Almaty
Aleksandar Vukic
30 - 34win/loss
69
48
LWWWLWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-36 | 13-18 | 5-9 | 6-2 | 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, Aleksandar got to the quarter after defeating James Duckworth 6-4 7-5 and Adrian Mannarino 7-6(4) 6-3.
In the 2nd round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Mannarino (7-64 6-3). During the match Vukic scored 73 points vs Mannarino’s 63. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Vukic managed to score 9 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Aleksandar Vukic was pretty efficient on serve to win 81% (30/37) of his 1st serve and 61% (20/33) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Aleksandar broke Mannarino twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Aleksandar’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Phoenix Challenger and Eastbourne.
Vukic has a composed 30-34 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tiafoe | Vukic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 35 | 44 |
| Pts | 124-109 | 145-126 |
| Total Points | 233 | 271 |
| Winners | 52 | 69 |
| %Winners | 42% | 48% |
Tiafoe played 1 match while Vukic competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Frances Tiafoe conceded 1 set while Aleksandar Vukic hasn’t dropped a set so far. Tiafoe has played 1 set(s) less than Vukic (3 vs 4). Therefore, Tiafoe played 9 games less than Vukic. The American scored 52 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Vukic scored 69 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tiafoe | Vukic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 21 | 23 |
| Avg per match | 21 | 11.5 |
| 1st in | 71/105 | 86/138 |
| %1st in | 68% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 52/71 | 69/86 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 24/34 | 30/52 |
| %2nd pts | 71% | 58% |
Tiafoe fired 21 aces . Vukic blasted 23 aces (11.5 per match). Tiafoe won 73% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Vukic won 80% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tiafoe | Vukic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/6 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 50% | 57% |
| Conceded | 2 | 6 |
| Saved | 1 | 6 |
| % Saved | 50% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Francis broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. The American surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Aleksandar broke his opponents 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Australian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 6 break points.
| Tiafoe | |||
| R2 Evans |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-710 7-64 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 35 | |
| pts | 124-109 | 124-109 | |
| Total points | 233 | 233 | |
| Winners | 52 | 52 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 21 | 21 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 71/105 | 71/105 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 52/71 | 52/71 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 24/34 | 24/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Vukic | ||||
| R1 Duckworth |
R2 Mannarino |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | 7-64 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | 44 | |
| pts | 72-63 | 73-63 | 145-126 | |
| Total points | 135 | 136 | 271 | |
| Winners | 39 | 30 | 69 | |
| %Winners | 54% | 41% | 48% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 14 | 9 | 23 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 49/68 | 37/70 | 86/138 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 53% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 39/49 | 30/37 | 69/86 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 81% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 20/33 | 30/52 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 61% | 58% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/3 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 67% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3/3 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | 200% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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