Philip Sekulic and Emile Hudd will face off in the 1st round of the Sydney Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Philip Sekulic who should win in 2 sets.
Philip Sekulic -> 1.34
Emile Hudd -> 2.93
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Prediction and head to head Philip Sekulic vs. Emile Hudd
There is no head to head record between Philip Sekulic and Emile Hudd since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Philip Sekulic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-15 | 17-14 | 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. 462, the Australian will start his run in the Sydney Challenger after he played his last match in the Brisbane 3 Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-3 to Emil in the 1st round on the 11th of November.
Sekulic has an overall 17-15 win-loss record in 2025, 17-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Australian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Bali.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 128-103 record. He has a positive 113-85 record on hard.
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd
round in 2023 and 2024. See his history.Emile Hudd
15 - 15win/loss
747
520
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-15 | 12-10 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2024 | 40-28 | 31-23 | 6-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-17 | 21-12 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 8-4 | 3-2 | 1-1 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 3-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 747, Hudd got to the 1st round after beating Kosuke Ogura 6-4 4-6 7-6(6) and Ajeet Rai 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Emile had a good straight sets win against Rai (6-4 6-3). During the match Hudd scored 62 points vs Rai’s 49. The Brit was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Hudd scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Emile Hudd lost the serve 4 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Hudd put 63% of his first serves in, winning 64% (23/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (9/21) on the 2nd serve. The Brit broke Rai 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Emile 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.
The Brit’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Lannion and M25 Perth.
Hudd has a compiled 15-15 win-loss record in 2025, 12-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Sydney Challenger
- Carl Emil OverbeckEmil Overbeck – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Carl Emil OverbeckEmil Overbeck – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dane SweenySweeny – Christian LangmoLangmo (2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-4 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hayato MatsuokaMatsuoka – Bernard TomicTomic (6-4 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tai SachSach – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (2-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karan SinghSingh – Aryan ShahShah (7-62 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James McCabeMcCabe – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Li TuTu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Marc PolmansPolmans (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blake EllisEllis – Shinji HazawaHazawa (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Takuya KumasakaKumasaka – Alex BoltBolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction