Aleksandar Kovacevic and Valentin Royer will play each other in the 1st round of the Hangzhou Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 6:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Valentin Royer who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Valentin Royer is the pick to win this match.
Valentin Royer -> 1.89
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 1.909
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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Valentin Royer
There is no head to head record between Aleksandar Kovacevic and Valentin Royer since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
30 - 25win/loss
60
60
LLLWLWWLWL | 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. 69, Kovacevic will start his run in Hangzhou after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-4 7-5 7-6(4) to Lam Coleman Wong in the 1st round on the 25th of August.
The American has an overall 30-25 win-loss record in 2025, 13-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Oeiras 2 Challenger where he overcame Zsombor Piros in the final 6-4 7-6(4) and the Cap Cana Challenger where he defeated Damir Dzumhur in the final 6-2 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Aleksandar has an overall 211-174 record. He has a positive 130-96 record on hard.
Previously in Hangzhou
Kovacevic has never competed in this tournament before.
Valentin Royer
49 - 22win/loss
57
56
LLLWLWLWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61-31 | 16-8 | 31-11 | 10-10 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 48-30 | 6-5 | 32-13 | 10-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-20 | 24-7 | 22-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-25 | 8-4 | 30-15 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-17 | 1-2 | 13-8 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 88 (career-high), the French player got to the 1st round after defeating Charles Chen 6-3 7-5 and Eliot Spizzirri 7-5 4-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, Valentin defeated Spizzirri (7-5 4-6 6-3). During the match Royer scored 97 points vs Spizzirri’s 89. Valentin was extremely aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about serving, Royer managed to score 11 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Valentin Royer lost the serve 3 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Royer put 68% of his first serves in, winning 77% (43/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Spizzirri 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Royer started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
His best result of the year was conquering the title the Kigali 1 Challenger where he overcame Andrej Martin in the final 6-1 6-2 and the Kigali 2 Challenger where he overcame Guy Den Ouden in the final 6-2 6-4.
Royer has a composed 49-22 win-loss record in 2025, 9-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LLLWLWLWLW Tennis Scores in Hangzhou
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Fajing SunSun (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Marin CilicCilic (4-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yibing WuWu – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (4-6 7-65 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Learner TienTien – Mariano NavoneNavone (5-7 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – David GoffinGoffin (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Valentin RoyerRoyer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Sebastian KordaKorda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Fajing SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-1) – H2H and prediction
