Jurij Rodionov and Philip Sekulic will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Seoul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 13. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jurij Rodionov who should win in 2 sets.
Jurij Rodionov -> 1.26
Philip Sekulic -> 3.58
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Prediction and head to head Jurij Rodionov vs. Philip Sekulic
There is no head to head record between Jurij Rodionov and Philip Sekulic since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Jurij Rodionov
38 - 27win/loss
177
87
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41-30 | 17-12 | 14-10 | 10-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 27-32 | 10-10 | 6-12 | 11-7 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-33 | 3-6 | 15-13 | 21-11 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 45-31 | 5-5 | 16-11 | 21-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-28 | 2-4 | 2-7 | 13-13 | 3-3 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 156, Jurij will start his run in the Seoul Challenger after he played his last match in Vienna where he lost 6-4 6-1 to De Minaur in the 1st round on the 20th of October.
The Austrian has a composed 38-27 win-loss record in 2025, 15-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Bonn Challenger where he overcame Timofey Skatov in the final 3-6 6-2 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Jurij has an overall 311-240 record. He has a positive 78-61 record on hard.
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2024. See his history.
Philip Sekulic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18-16 | 18-15 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 459, Sekulic reached the 1st round after beating Ryuki Matsuda 7-5 3-6 7-5 and Evan Zhu 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications, Philip had a good straight sets win against Zhu (7-5 6-3). During the match Sekulic scored 66 points vs Zhu’s 52. Sekulic was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Sekulic bagged 6 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Philip Sekulic was pretty effective on serve to win 77% (27/35) of his 1st serve and 62% (18/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Philip broke Zhu 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sekulic started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
The Australian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Bali.
Philip has an aggregate 16-12 win-loss record in 2025, 16-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Seoul Challenger
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Henrique RochaRocha (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Omar JasikaJasika (6-3 5-7 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Hyeon ChungChung (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – James DuckworthDuckworth (1-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Garrett JohnsJohns (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Renta TokudaTokuda – Elias YmerYmer (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Uisung ParkPark – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sanhui ShinShin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Woobin ShinShin – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (0-0) – H2H and prediction