Dayne Kelly and Mark Whitehouse will face off in the 1st round of the Sydney Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dayne Kelly who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dayne Kelly is the pick to win this match.
Dayne Kelly -> 1.43
Mark Whitehouse -> 2.66
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Prediction and head to head Dayne Kelly vs. Mark Whitehouse
There is no head to head record between Dayne Kelly and Mark Whitehouse since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Dayne Kelly
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 22-12 | 18-10 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 37-23 | 33-21 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 17-12 | 9-4 | 7-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 9-7 | 4-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 5-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 506, the Australian will start his run in the Sydney Challenger after he played his last match in the Playford Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-4 to Jasika in the quarter on the 28th of October.
The Australian has an overall 31-20 win-loss record in 2022, 27-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Australian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Chiang Rai and M15 Caloundra.
Talking about his overall career, Dayne has an overall 368-220 record. He has a positive 304-176 record on hard.
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
Dayne has never competed in this tournament before.
Mark Whitehouse
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 12-13 | 3-4 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
2023 | 13-26 | 7-14 | 0-2 | 2-6 | 4-3 | 0-1 |
2022 | 34-33 | 25-21 | 0-0 | 2-6 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
2021 | 12-18 | 7-10 | 5-6 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2020 | 12-9 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 9-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 677, the Brit reached the 1st round after defeating Kody Pearson 6-2 6-2 and Blake Mott 7-66 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Mott (7-66 6-4). During the match Whitehouse scored 77 points vs Mott’s 69. The Brit was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Whitehouse made 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Mark Whitehouse lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Whitehouse put 64% of his first serves in, winning 80% (35/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (11/25) on the 2nd serve. The Brit broke Mott twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Mark started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to conquer 56% of the points he played.
The Brit’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Heraklion,M25 Roehampton and M15 Sharm ElSheikh.
Whitehouse has a composed 26-29 win-loss record in 2022, 17-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Sydney Challenger
- Mukund SasikumarSasikumar – James DuckworthDuckworth (4-6 6-3 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adam WaltonWalton – Blake EllisEllis (4-6 6-3 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marek GengelGengel – Jeremy BealeBeale (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jose StathamStatham – Marc PolmansPolmans (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Max PurcellPurcell (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan SmithSmith – Yuichiro InuiInui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex BoltBolt – Dane SweenySweeny (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Luke SavilleSaville (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Li TuTu – Yuichiro InuiInui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Colin SinclairSinclair – Aleksandar VukicVukic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Omar JasikaJasika – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mark WhitehouseWhitehouse – Dayne KellyKelly (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kyle SeeligSeelig – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Mitchell HarperHarper (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-0) – H2H and prediction