Jason Jung and Mukund Sasikumar will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Bengaluru Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am 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 Jason Jung who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jason Jung is the pick to win this match.
Jason Jung -> 1.64
Mukund Sasikumar -> 2.16
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Prediction and head to head Jason Jung vs. Mukund Sasikumar
This will be the 3rd time that Jason Jung and Mukund Sasikumar play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Kumar Mukund (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Kumar Mukund won 4-6 6-4 6-4 in the qualifications in the Chennai Challenger back in February 2023.
Jason Jung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-25 | 40-23 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-28 | 13-14 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-25 | 5-12 | 1-4 | 2-6 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-18 | 7-8 | 2-4 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 343, Jason reached the qualifications after beating Vladyslav Orlov 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, Jason had a good straight sets win against Orlov (6-4 7-5). During the match, Jung scored 75 points vs Orlov’s 64. Jason was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Regarding the service games, Jung scored just 1 ace in the course of the match and he committed only 6 double faults. Jason Jung lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Jung put 65% of his first serves in, winning 65% (30/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. Jason broke Orlov 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Jung has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (285-244). 8-4 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Jung has an overall 200-150 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
The Chinese’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger.
The Chinese has an aggregate 8-4 win-loss record in 2023, 8-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bengaluru Challenger
Jung has never competed in this tournament before.
Mukund Sasikumar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-27 | 36-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-31 | 21-25 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-35 | 33-21 | 6-7 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-32 | 25-24 | 2-3 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-9 | 4-4 | 0-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 402, Kumar Mukund reached the qualifications after defeating Andrew Paulson 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Sasi had a good straight sets win against Paulson (6-1 6-4). During the match Kumar Mukund scored 59 points vs Paulson’s 40. The Indian was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Kumar Mukund bagged 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Mukund Sasikumar was extremely effective on serve to win 81% (25/31) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sasi was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Paulson 4 times.
Kumar Mukund has an overall 4-5 win-loss record in 2023, 4-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Jung | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 17 |
| Pts | 75-64 | 59-40 |
| Total Points | 139 | 99 |
| Winners | 30 | 25 |
| %Winners | 40% | 42% |
Both Jung and Kumar Mukund played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Jung and Kumar Mukund have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Jung played 5 games more than Kumar Mukund. The Chinese scored 30 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Sasi scored 25 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Jung | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 4 |
| 1st in | 46/71 | 31/52 |
| %1st in | 65% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 30/46 | 25/31 |
| %1st pts | 65% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 12/25 | 12/21 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 57% |
Jung bagged 1 ace . Kumar Mukund also blasted 4 aces . Jung won 65% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Kumar Mukund won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Jung | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/6 | 4/4 |
| % Converted | 83% | 100% |
| Conceded | 5 | 4 |
| Saved | 2 | 3 |
| % Saved | 40% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
Jung broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Jung dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded. The Indian broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Sasi conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Jung | |||
| Q1 Orlov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 75-64 | 75-64 | |
| Total points | 139 | 139 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 46/71 | 46/71 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 30/46 | 30/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/25 | 12/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/5 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 40% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Kumar Mukund | |||
| Q1 Paulson |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 59-40 | 59-40 | |
| Total points | 99 | 99 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 31/52 | 31/52 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 25/31 | 25/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 12/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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