Dane Sweeny and Philip Sekulic will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on COURT 16. 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 Philip Sekulic who should win in 3 sets.
Philip Sekulic -> 1.6
Dane Sweeny -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Dane Sweeny vs. Philip Sekulic
This will be the 2nd time that Dane Sweeny and Philip Sekulic fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sweeny (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Sweeny won 6-2 6-3 in the final in M25 Cairns back in 2022.
Dane Sweeny
17 - 22win/loss
330
194
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-22 | 18-16 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-33 | 25-23 | 10-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 62-26 | 59-22 | 3-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-23 | 19-15 | 1-1 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 325, Sweeny got to the qualifications after beating Riku Takahata 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, Dane had a good straight sets win against Takahata (6-2 6-1). During the match, Sweeny scored 58 points vs Takahata’s 31. Dane was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Sweeny scored just 1 ace in the course of the match and he committed only 3 double faults. Dane Sweeny was exceptionally effective on serve to win 77% (20/26) 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. Sweeny broke Takahata 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Sweeny has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 56% of his matches (161-128). 17-16 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Sweeny has an overall135-89 record in the last 7 years on hard.
Dane’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Burnie 2 Challenger.
Dane has an aggregate 17-22 win-loss record in 2024, 17-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Philip Sekulic
28 - 26win/loss
345
225
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-27 | 28-23 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 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, Philip got to the qualifications after defeating Hikaru Shiraishi 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Shiraishi (6-3 6-2). During the match Sekulic scored 59 points vs Shiraishi’s 31. The Australian was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Sekulic struck 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Philip Sekulic was quite efficient on serve to win 83% (25/30) of his 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sekulic broke Shiraishi 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Sekulic’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Wuxi Challenger,the Kachreti Challenger and M25 Cairns.
Philip has an overall 28-26 win-loss record in 2024, 28-22 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Sekulic has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sweeny | Sekulic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 17 |
| Pts | 58-31 | 59-31 |
| Total Points | 89 | 90 |
| Winners | 20 | 25 |
| %Winners | 34% | 42% |
Both Sweeny and Sekulic played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sweeny and Sekulic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sweeny played 2 games less than Sekulic. Sweeny scored 20 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Philip blasted 25 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sweeny | Sekulic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3 |
| 1st in | 26/42 | 30/44 |
| %1st in | 62% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 20/26 | 25/30 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 10/14 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 71% |
Sweeny recorded 1 ace . Sekulic also fired 3 aces . Sweeny won 77% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Sekulic won 83% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sweeny | Sekulic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 4/5 |
| % Converted | 56% | 80% |
| Conceded | 1 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Australian broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Australian quite strong on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Australian broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Philip conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sweeny | |||
| Q1 Takahata | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 58-31 | 58-31 | |
| Total points | 89 | 89 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 26/42 | 26/42 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 20/26 | 20/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 11/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Sekulic | |||
| Q1 Shiraishi | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 59-31 | 59-31 | |
| Total points | 90 | 90 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/44 | 30/44 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 25/30 | 25/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/14 | 10/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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