Enzo Couacaud and Keegan Smith will square off in the 2^nd round of the Lexington Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Enzo Couacaud who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Enzo Couacaud is the pick to win this match.
Enzo Couacaud -> 1.32
Keegan Smith -> 3.26

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Prediction and head to head Enzo Couacaud vs. Keegan Smith

There is no head to head record between Enzo Couacaud and Keegan Smith since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Enzo Couacaud

Ranked no. 203, the French player reached the 2^nd round after defeating Evan Zhu 6-2 6-1.

In the 1^st round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Zhu (6-2 6-1). During the match, Couacaud scored 56 points vs Zhu’s 28. The French player was pretty aggressive to blast 19 winners.

Talking about the service games, Couacaud couldn’t to score even 1 ace during the match and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Enzo Couacaud was quite effective on serve to win 83% (19/23) of his 1st serve and 82% (9/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Enzo broke Zhu 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).

Couacaud has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (283-173). 16-6 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Couacaud has an aggregate 156-56 record in the last years on hard.

The French player best result of the season was getting to the final in the Bendigo Challenger.

Couacaud has a compiled 23-18 win-loss record in 2022, 16-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Lexington Challenger

Keegan Smith

Ranked no. 358, Keegan reached the 2^nd round after beating Li Tu 6-7⁵ 6-0 6-3.

In the 1^st round against Tu, The American recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7⁵ 6-0 6-3). During the match Smith scored 103 points vs Tu’s 84. Smith was pretty aggressive to blast 49 winners.

About the serving games, Smith scored 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Keegan Smith was quite efficient on serve to win 79% (49/62) of his 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Tu 5 times after converting 38% of his break points (5/13).

Keegan’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Cancun and M25 Bakersfield.

Smith has an aggregate 23-14 win-loss record in 2022, 20-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Couacaud	Smith
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	15	28
Pts	56-28	103-84
Total Points	84	187
Winners	19	49
%Winners	34%	48%

Both Couacaud and Smith played 1 match. At the moment, Keegan Smith dropped 1 set while Enzo Couacaud hasn’t dropped a set so far. Couacaud has played 1 set(s) less than Smith (2 vs 3). Therefore, Couacaud played 13 games less than Smith. Couacaud scored 19 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Smith blasted 49 winners (48%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Couacaud	Smith
Aces	0	7
Avg per match	0	7
1st in	23/34	62/87
%1st in	68%	71%
1st pts	19/23	49/62
%1st pts	83%	79%
2nd pts	9/11	13/25
%2nd pts	82%	52%

Couacaud didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Smith managed to score 7 aces . Couacaud won 83% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 82% of the points. On the other side, Smith won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Couacaud	Smith
Won	5	5
Converted	5/7	5/13
% Converted	71%	38%
Conceded	0	4
Saved	0	3
% Saved	0%	75%
Times Broken	0	1

The French player broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Couacaud very solid his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Keegan broke his opponent 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Couacaud
	R1 Zhu	Total
Score	6-2 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	56-28	56-28
Total points	84	84
Winners	19	19
%Winners	34%	34%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	23/34	23/34
% 1st in	68%	68%
1st pts	19/23	19/23
% 1st pts	83%	83%
2nd pts	9/11	9/11
% 2nd pts	82%	82%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/7	5/7
Converted %	71%	71%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Smith
	R1 Tu	Total
Score	6-75 6-0 6-3
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	28	28
pts	103-84	103-84
Total points	187	187
Winners	49	49
%Winners	48%	48%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	62/87	62/87
% 1st in	71%	71%
1st pts	49/62	49/62
% 1st pts	79%	79%
2nd pts	13/25	13/25
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/13	5/13
Converted %	38%	38%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Lexington Challenger

• Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
• Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Gage BrymerBrymer (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Juncheng ShangShang – Stefan DostanicDostanic (6-0 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Billy HarrisHarris – Aidan MchughMchugh (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Brandon HoltHolt – Kyle SeeligSeelig (6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – Hady HabibHabib (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Evan ZhuZhu (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Alafia AyeniAyeni (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Millen HurrionHurrion (6-0 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Steven DiezDiez (7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Emilio GomezGomez – Cannon KingsleyKingsley (6-4 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Keegan SmithSmith – Li TuTu (6-7⁵ 6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Govind NandaNanda – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (7-6⁸ 6-1) – See score progression
• Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Yunseong ChungChung (6-2 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
• Mukund SasikumarSasikumar – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (3-6 6-0 4-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Alafia AyeniAyeni (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Millen HurrionHurrion (6-0 7-6(7)) – See score progression
• Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
• Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – Hady HabibHabib (6-3 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Emilio GomezGomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Keegan SmithSmith (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Billy HarrisHarris – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer – Nicolas MejiaMejia (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Roberto QuirozQuiroz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Brandon HoltHolt – Govind NandaNanda (0-0) – H2H and prediction