Blake Ellis and Colin Sinclair will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Taipei Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm 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 Blake Ellis who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Blake Ellis is the pick to win this match.
Blake Ellis -> 1.59
Colin Sinclair -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Blake Ellis vs. Colin Sinclair
This will be the 4th time that Blake Ellis and Colin Sinclair square off. The head to head is 3-0 for Sinclair (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Sinclair won 7-6(1) 3-6 7-6(3) in the 2nd round in M25 Cairns back in 2022.
Blake Ellis
18 - 13win/loss
339
319
LWWWWWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 49-30 | 41-26 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-29 | 43-25 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-11 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-14 | 16-8 | 0-0 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 11-6 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 392, Blake got to the qualifications after beating Kai-I Wang 7-5 6-2.
In the qualifications, Blake had a good straight sets win against Wang (7-5 6-2). During the match, Ellis scored 63 points vs Wang’s 51. Blake was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ellis recorded 6 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Blake Ellis was very efficient on serve to win 74% (35/47) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Wang 3 times.
Ellis has winning record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (195-146). 12-11 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ellis has an overall 153-124 match record in the last years on hard.
Blake’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Mildura and M25 Swan Hill.
The Australian has an aggregate 18-13 win-loss record in 2024, 12-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Taipei Challenger
Ellis has never competed in this tournament before.
Colin Sinclair
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-17 | 18-15 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-32 | 31-25 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-22 | 22-14 | 7-5 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-21 | 22-8 | 14-9 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-12 | 3-7 | 6-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 475, Sinclair got to the qualifications after beating Jose Statham 7-5 7-66.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Statham (7-5 7-66). During the match Sinclair scored 75 points vs Statham’s 69. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 40 winners.
About the serving games, Sinclair managed to score 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Colin Sinclair was very efficient on serve to win 77% (40/52) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sinclair broke Statham twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Colin has an overall 2-1 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ellis | Sinclair |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 25 |
| Pts | 63-51 | 75-69 |
| Total Points | 114 | 144 |
| Winners | 35 | 40 |
| %Winners | 56% | 53% |
Both Ellis and Sinclair 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, Ellis and Sinclair have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Ellis played 5 games less than Sinclair. The Australian scored 35 winners (56% of the total points). On the other side, Sinclair recorded 40 winners (53%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ellis | Sinclair |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 10 |
| 1st in | 47/63 | 52/74 |
| %1st in | 75% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 35/47 | 40/52 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 12/22 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 55% |
Ellis struck 6 aces . Sinclair made 10 aces . Ellis won 74% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Sinclair won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ellis | Sinclair |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 2 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 2/3 |
| % Converted | 100% | 67% |
| Conceded | 5 | 4 |
| Saved | 5 | 3 |
| % Saved | 100% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Australian broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Blake very solid his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 5 break points. Sinclair broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Sinclair conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ellis | |||
| Q1 Wang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 63-51 | 63-51 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 56% | 56% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 47/63 | 47/63 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 75% | |
| 1st pts | 35/47 | 35/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 11/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Sinclair | |||
| Q1 Statham |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 75-69 | 75-69 | |
| Total points | 144 | 144 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 53% | 53% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 52/74 | 52/74 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 40/52 | 40/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 12/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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