Jordan Thompson and Mukund Sasikumar will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Columbus 2 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jordan Thompson who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jordan Thompson is the pick to win this match.
Jordan Thompson -> 1.073
Mukund Sasikumar -> 7.6
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Prediction and head to head Jordan Thompson vs. Mukund Sasikumar
This will be the 2nd time that Jordan Thompson and Mukund Sasikumar face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Thompson (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Thompson won 6-2 6-4 in the quarter in the Anning Challenger back in 2018.
Jordan Thompson
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-16 | 11-7 | 3-5 | 2-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-28 | 22-15 | 0-3 | 7-4 | 12-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-26 | 18-14 | 2-6 | 8-1 | 12-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-25 | 10-11 | 2-6 | 0-1 | 9-5 | 2-2 |
| 2020 | 12-13 | 6-6 | 1-2 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 98, Jordan reached the 2nd round after defeating Charles Broom 7-65 6-2.
In the 1st round, Thompson had a good straight sets win against Broom (7-65 6-2). During the match, Thompson scored 81 points vs Broom’s 68. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Regarding the service games, Thompson fired 16 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Jordan Thompson was extremely effective on serve to win 75% (38/51) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Jordan broke Broom twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).
Thompson has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (379-255). 3-1 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Thompson has an overall 24-15 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
The Australian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Surbiton Challenger and the Nottingham Challenger.
Jordan has a composed 31-25 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Columbus 2 Challenger
Mukund Sasikumar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-18 | 21-18 | 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. 378, the Indian got to the 2nd round after defeating Nicolas Mejia 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Kumar Mukund had a good straight sets win against Mejia (6-4 6-4). During the match Kumar Mukund scored 65 points vs Mejia’s 50. Sasi was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Kumar Mukund fired 5 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Mukund Sasikumar was exceptionally effective on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 70% (16/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Indian broke Mejia 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Sasi’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Forli 1 Challenger,M15 Jakarta and M25 Sintra.
Kumar Mukund has a composed 33-24 win-loss record in 2022, 8-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Thompson | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 20 |
| Pts | 81-68 | 65-50 |
| Total Points | 149 | 115 |
| Winners | 38 | 23 |
| %Winners | 47% | 35% |
Both Thompson and Kumar Mukund played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Thompson and Kumar Mukund have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Thompson played 1 game more than Kumar Mukund. Thompson scored 38 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Kumar Mukund made 23 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Thompson | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 16 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 16 | 5 |
| 1st in | 51/68 | 30/53 |
| %1st in | 75% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 38/51 | 23/30 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 16/23 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 70% |
Thompson bagged 16 aces . Kumar Mukund recorded 5 aces . Thompson won 75% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Kumar Mukund won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 70% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Thompson | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/10 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 20% | 50% |
| Conceded | 0 | 2 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Jordan broke his opponent twice with a 20% conversion rate. Thompson pretty effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Sasi broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Sasi conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Thompson | |||
| R1 Broom |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 81-68 | 81-68 | |
| Total points | 149 | 149 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 16 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 51/68 | 51/68 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 75% | |
| 1st pts | 38/51 | 38/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 11/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/10 | 2/10 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kumar Mukund | |||
| R1 Mejia |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 65-50 | 65-50 | |
| Total points | 115 | 115 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 30/53 | 30/53 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 23/30 | 23/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/23 | 16/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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