World number 13 Cameron Norrie will play 129th-ranked Aleksandar Kovacevic in the second round of the 2023 Los Cabos Open on Wednesday, August 2. Get the predictions and odds of this Cameron Norrie v Aleksandar Kovacevic match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here.
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Cameron Norrie v Aleksandar Kovacevic Head to Head
Norrie and Kovacevic have never faced off in a competitive match before this.
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Norrie Returns After a Month Off
While a lot was expected from his home run, Norrie was bundled out in the second round at Wimbledon. Since then, he has been out of action as he prepares for the US Open swing and this will be his first match in nearly a month.
Norrie now returns to hardcourt tennis after having had a good time of it in the first half of the season.
He had started off with three singles wins at the United Cup and it wasn’t till his seventh match of the year that he finally lost one. A quarterfinal at the Indian Wells Masters added to his performances and that was after he had won eight of the nine matches he had played on clay.
So while Norrie might find himself a bit rusty coming into this, he likes his time on hardcourts. And more so in Los Cabos where he had won the title in 2021 and was a finalist last year.
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Kovacevic Makes it Past Omni
Omini Kumar was a surprise entrant into the main draw of the tournament but he was never going to be the favourite in his opener against Kovacevic. And Kovacevic made sure of that, winning in straight sets to register his first main draw win since Miami 2023.
Having entered this tournament on the back of a 6-0, 6-1 rout at the hands of Jordan Thompson in Newport, Kovacevic was a straight-set winner over Omni here.
He won 6-2, 7-5 in a match lasting an hour and 31 minutes. While he was himself broken twice in the match, Kovacevic did not let that Omni comeback interfere with his plans. This happened in the second set when Kovacevic lost his serve twice to allow Omni level things out at 4-4.
Soon after he broke Omni again and this time around served it out to love to win it.
Kovacevic will need to do a lot better with his serving against Norrie though.
Norrie v Kovacevic Prediction and Tip
This seems to be a straightforward one for Norrie but for the chance of any sort of a rustiness coming into it. Still, we could be looking at a straight-set victory.
Tips:
- Low Risk Tip: Norrie to win in straight sets: 3/5
The 2023 ATP Los Cabos will be played from July 31 to August 6. You can get all the tennis betting news with our tennis betting blog here. Also get rest of the tennis match previews here.
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