David Goffin and Aleksandar Kovacevic will face off in the 1st round of the Open Occitanie for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aleksandar Kovacevic who should win in 3 sets.
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 1.8
David Goffin -> 2.01
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Prediction and head to head David Goffin vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
This will be the 2nd time that David Goffin and Aleksandar Kovacevic square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Goffin (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Goffin won 1-6 6-3 6-3 in the 1st round in the Phoenix Challenger back in 2022.
David Goffin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-26 | 10-15 | 4-4 | 2-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 47-28 | 24-11 | 7-7 | 9-7 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-26 | 2-5 | 11-9 | 18-9 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-29 | 7-13 | 14-5 | 9-9 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 14-15 | 4-8 | 5-5 | 5-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 56, Goffin will start his run in Montpellier after he played his last match at the Australian Open where he lost 6-1 6-2 7-6(7) to Bonzi in the 1st round on the 13th of January.
Goffin has a compiled 0-3 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
Talking about his overall career, The Belgian has an overall 648-381 record. He has a positive 162-91 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Montpellier
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2021. See his history.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-33 | 13-14 | 4-7 | 16-8 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-35 | 20-17 | 5-8 | 2-6 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-27 | 34-15 | 0-5 | 7-2 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-31 | 22-18 | 4-4 | 15-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-17 | 11-10 | 2-3 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 102, Kovacevic got to the 1st round after defeating Robin Bertrand 7-6(4) 6-4 and Pablo Carreno-Busta 6-3 7-6(4).
In the qualifications, Kovacevic had a good straight sets win against Carreno-Busta (6-3 7-64). During the match Kovacevic scored 78 points vs Carreno-Busta’s 63. Aleksandar was quite aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Kovacevic recorded 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Aleksandar Kovacevic was very efficient on serve to win 89% (40/45) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kovacevic broke Carreno-Busta once after converting 14% of his break points (1/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to win 55% of the points he played.
His best result of the year was conquering the title the Oeiras 2 Challenger where he beat Zsombor Piros in the final 6-4 7-6(4).
The American has an aggregate 9-3 win-loss record in 2025, 8-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Montpellier
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Borna CoricCoric (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mattia BellucciBellucci – Lucas PouillePouille (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (7-61 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yuki Bhambri/Ivan DodigBhambri/Ivan Dodig – Jakob Schnaitter/Mark WallnerSchnaitter/Mark Wallner (7-5 3-6 10-8) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur CazauxCazaux – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander BublikBublik – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey RublevRublev – Christopher EubanksEubanks (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Richard GasquetGasquet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – David GoffinGoffin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Quentin HalysHalys (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Harold MayotMayot – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Constant LestienneLestienne (0-0) – H2H and prediction