Adam Walton and Alafia Ayeni will square off in the 1st round of the Cuernavaca Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on CANCHA 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Adam Walton who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Adam Walton is the pick to win this match.
Adam Walton -> 1.066
Alafia Ayeni -> 7.5
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Prediction and head to head Adam Walton vs. Alafia Ayeni
There is no head to head record between Adam Walton and Alafia Ayeni since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Adam Walton
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 54-37 | 46-27 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-30 | 53-26 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-12 | 41-10 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 135 (career-high), Walton will start his run in the Cuernavaca Challenger after he played his last match in the Mexico City Challenger where he lost 6-3 7-6(5) to Galarneau in the 1st round on the 2nd of April.
Walton has an aggregate 18-11 win-loss record in 2024, 18-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Burnie 2 Challenger where he overcame Dane Sweeny in the final 6-2 7-6(4).
Talking about his overall career, Walton has an overall 126-62 record. He has a positive 121-52 record on hard.
Previously in the Cuernavaca Challenger
Adam has never competed in this tournament before.
Alafia Ayeni
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-31 | 24-21 | 6-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-22 | 17-13 | 1-3 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-19 | 22-15 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-20 | 12-10 | 3-2 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2020 | 5-7 | 3-3 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 560, the American got to the 1st round after beating Nathan Ponwith 7-65 6-3 and Matias Soto 7-64 6-1.
In the qualifications, Ayeni had a good straight sets win against Soto (7-64 6-1). During the match Ayeni scored 69 points vs Soto’s 54. The American was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Ayeni bagged 10 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Alafia Ayeni was very effective on serve to win 76% (32/42) of his 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alafia was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Soto twice.
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 54% of the points he played.
Alafia has an overall 8-12 win-loss record in 2024, 2-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Skander MansouriMansouri – Facundo MenaMena (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Omar JasikaJasika – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Christian LangmoLangmo – Juan Hernandez SerranoHernandez Serrano (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine BellierBellier – Keegan SmithSmith (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alafia AyeniAyeni – Adam WaltonWalton (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Benjamin LockLock (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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