Thanasi Kokkinakis and Philip Sekulic will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Sydney Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on COURT 2. 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 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Thanasi Kokkinakis is the pick to win this match.
Thanasi Kokkinakis -> 1.154
Philip Sekulic -> 4.8

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Prediction and head to head Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Philip Sekulic

This will be the 2^nd time that Thanasi Kokkinakis and Philip Sekulic play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kokkinakis (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Kokkinakis won 7-5 7-5 in the 2^nd round in the Sydney Challenger back in 2023.

Thanasi Kokkinakis

Ranked no. 87, Thanasi reached the 2^nd round after beating Christian Langmo 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Thanasi had a good straight sets win against Langmo (6-3 6-4). During the match, Kokkinakis scored 67 points vs Langmo’s 48. Kokkinakis was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Kokkinakis managed to score 13 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Thanasi Kokkinakis was very effective on serve to win 91% (29/32) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kokkinakis broke Langmo twice after converting 17% of his break points (2/12).

Kokkinakis has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (214-136). 15-12 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kokkinakis has an aggregate 140-81 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Sarasota Challenger where he defeated Zizou Bergs in the final 6-3 1-6 6-0.

The Australian has an overall 30-20 win-loss record in 2024, 15-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sydney Challenger

Philip Sekulic

Ranked no. 344, Sekulic reached the 2^nd round after defeating Pavle Marinkov 6-2 5-7 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Philip defeated Marinkov (6-2 5-7 6-1). During the match Sekulic scored 94 points vs Marinkov’s 81. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 44 winners.

About the serving games, Sekulic struck 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Philip Sekulic lost the serve twice and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Sekulic put 59% of his first serves in, winning 72% (44/61) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (20/42) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Marinkov 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).

Sekulic’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Wuxi Challenger,the Kachreti Challenger and M25 Cairns.

Philip has a composed 27-25 win-loss record in 2024, 27-21 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sydney Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kokkinakis	Sekulic
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	19	27
Pts	67-48	94-81
Total Points	115	175
Winners	29	44
%Winners	43%	47%

Both Kokkinakis and Sekulic played 1 match. At the moment, Philip Sekulic dropped 1 set while Thanasi Kokkinakis hasn’t conceded a set so far. Kokkinakis has played 1 set(s) less than Sekulic (2 vs 3). Therefore, Kokkinakis played 8 games less than Sekulic. Thanasi scored 29 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian struck 44 winners (47%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kokkinakis	Sekulic
Aces	13	5
Avg per match	13	5
1st in	32/48	61/103
%1st in	67%	59%
1st pts	29/32	44/61
%1st pts	91%	72%
2nd pts	11/16	20/42
%2nd pts	69%	48%

Kokkinakis fired 13 aces . Sekulic bagged 5 aces . Kokkinakis won 91% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Sekulic won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kokkinakis	Sekulic
Won	2	5
Converted	2/12	5/11
% Converted	17%	45%
Conceded	0	9
Saved	0	7
% Saved	0%	78%
Times Broken	0	2

Thanasi broke his opponent twice with a 17% conversion rate. Kokkinakis had a solid display on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Philip broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Sekulic conceded his serve twice and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded.

Kokkinakis
	R1 Langmo	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	67-48	67-48
Total points	115	115
Winners	29	29
%Winners	43%	43%
SERVE
Aces	13	13
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	32/48	32/48
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	29/32	29/32
% 1st pts	91%	91%
2nd pts	11/16	11/16
% 2nd pts	69%	69%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/12	2/12
Converted %	17%	17%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Sekulic
	R1 Marinkov	Total
Score	6-2 5-7 6-1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	27	27
pts	94-81	94-81
Total points	175	175
Winners	44	44
%Winners	47%	47%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	61/103	61/103
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	44/61	44/61
% 1st pts	72%	72%
2nd pts	20/42	20/42
% 2nd pts	48%	48%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/11	5/11
Converted %	45%	45%
Conceded	9	9
Saved	7/9	7
Saved %	78%	78%
Times Broken	2	2

Tennis Scores in Sydney Challenger

• Omar JasikaJasika – Takuya KumasakaKumasaka (6-2 5-7 7-5) – See score progression
• Blake EllisEllis – James McCabeMcCabe (6-7² 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Philip SekulicSekulic – Pavle MarinkovMarinkov (6-2 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Jake DelaneyDelaney (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (7-6⁵ 6-7⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Aleksandre BakshiBakshi (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Hayden JonesJones (6-3 7-6³) – See score progression
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Jacob BradshawBradshaw (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Ajeet RaiRai – Alex BoltBolt (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Christian LangmoLangmo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Blake MottMott – Seita WatanabeWatanabe (7-5 6-7⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Edward WinterWinter (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Tibo ColsonColson – Shintaro ImaiImai (6-3 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Ajeet RaiRai – Alex BoltBolt (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Aleksandre BakshiBakshi (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Blake MottMott – Seita WatanabeWatanabe (7-5 6-7(5) 6-3) – See score progression
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Jacob BradshawBradshaw (6-3 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Blake MottMott – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Omar JasikaJasika – Blake EllisEllis (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ajeet RaiRai – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Emile HuddHudd – Dane SweenySweeny (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tibo ColsonColson – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction