Philip Sekulic and Pavle Marinkov will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Sydney Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Philip Sekulic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Philip Sekulic is the pick to win this match.
Philip Sekulic -> 1.12
Pavle Marinkov -> 5.5
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Prediction and head to head Philip Sekulic vs. Pavle Marinkov
There is no head to head record between Philip Sekulic and Pavle Marinkov since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Philip Sekulic
26 - 25win/loss
295
225
LWWWLWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-31 | 34-26 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-28 | 33-24 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-23 | 19-15 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-3 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 344, the Australian will start his run in the Sydney Challenger after he played his last match in the Playford Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-2 to Tu in the 2nd round on the 24th of October.
The Australian has an aggregate 26-25 win-loss record in 2024, 26-21 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Sekulic’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Wuxi Challenger,the Kachreti Challenger and M25 Cairns.
Talking about his overall career, Sekulic has an overall 102-82 record. He has a positive 88-66 record on hard.
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Pavle Marinkov
15 - 15win/loss
802
800
LWLWLLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-19 | 14-14 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 14-11 | 11-7 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 7-2 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 865, the Australian got to the 1st round after defeating Colin Sinclair 3-6 6-1 6-2 and James Watt 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Marinkov had a good straight sets win against Watt (6-3 6-4). During the match Marinkov scored 64 points vs Watt’s 44. Pavle was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Marinkov fired 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Pavle Marinkov was very efficient on serve to win 97% (28/29) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Watt twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Marinkov started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Marinkov has a composed 15-15 win-loss record in 2024, 12-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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