Aleksandar Kovacevic and Branko Djuric will face off in the 1^st round of the Belgrade Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aleksandar Kovacevic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Aleksandar Kovacevic is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 1.11
Branko Djuric -> 6.55

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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Branko Djuric

There is no head to head record between Aleksandar Kovacevic and Branko Djuric since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Aleksandar Kovacevic

Ranked no. 99, the American will start his run in Belgrade after he played his last match in the Bratislava 2 Challenger where he lost 7-6(4) 7-6(3) to Ivanovski in the qualifications on the 27^th of October.

Kovacevic has a composed 26-31 win-loss record in 2024, 1-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Kovacevic has an overall 178-145 record. He has a positive 40-29 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in Belgrade

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Branko Djuric

Ranked no. 779, Djuric reached the 1^st round after defeating Luka Pavlovic 6-7(6) 6-3 6-4 and Thiago Agustin Tirante 6-7(2) 6-2 6-4.

In the qualifications against Agustin Tirante, Djuric recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7² 6-2 6-4). During the match Djuric scored 100 points vs Agustin Tirante’s 90. The Serbian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Talking about serving, Djuric managed to score 11 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Branko Djuric was quite effective on serve to win 78% (38/49) of his 1st serve and 55% (22/40) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Serbian broke Agustin Tirante 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Serbian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

Branko’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Kish Island.

Branko has an overall 24-20 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Belgrade

• Jamie Murray/John PeersMurray/John Peers – James Duckworth/Christopher O’ConnellDuckworth/Christopher O’Connell (7-6⁴ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (3-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Juncheng ShangShang (2-6 7-6⁵ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Dusan LajovicLajovic – Mariano NavoneNavone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Laslo DjereDjere – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Fabio FogniniFognini (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Pavel KotovKotov (1-0) – H2H and prediction