Alexander Blockx and Philip Sekulic will play each other in the 1st round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play 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 Alexander Blockx who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexander Blockx is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Blockx -> 1.285
Philip Sekulic -> 3.36
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Blockx vs. Philip Sekulic
There is no head to head record between Alexander Blockx and Philip Sekulic since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Alexander Blockx
31 - 24win/loss
203
203
LWWWWWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-24 | 7-11 | 7-3 | 17-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-15 | 4-3 | 11-7 | 24-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 4-7 | 2-2 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 205 (career-high), Alexander will start his run in the Yokohama Challenger after he won the title in the Kobe Challenger after beating 6-3 6-1 Rodionov in the final.
The Belgian has a composed 31-23 win-loss record in 2024, 7-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Kobe Challenger where he beat Jurij Rodionov in the final 6-3 6-1.
Alexander won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, The Belgian has an overall 74-45 record. He has a negative 13-15 record on hard.
Previously in the Yokohama Challenger
The Belgian has never competed in this tournament before.
Philip Sekulic
32 - 29win/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. 342, the Australian got to the 1st round after beating Kohei Hayashi 6-2 6-1 and Ryuki Matsuda 6-2 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Matsuda (6-2 7-5). During the match Sekulic scored 75 points vs Matsuda’s 55. Philip was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Sekulic fired 8 aces and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Philip Sekulic was exceptionally effective on serve to win 71% (30/42) of his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke Matsuda 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Philip started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 61% of the points he played.
Sekulic’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Wuxi Challenger,the Kachreti Challenger and M25 Cairns.
Sekulic has a compiled 31-29 win-loss record in 2024, 30-24 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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