Tennys Sandgren and Alex Michelsen will square off in the qualifications of the Fairfield Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 am on CAMMISA COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tennys Sandgren who should win in 3 sets.
Tennys Sandgren -> 1.6
Alex Michelsen -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Tennys Sandgren vs. Alex Michelsen
There is no head to head record between Tennys Sandgren and Alex Michelsen since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Tennys Sandgren
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-9 | 4-4 | 5-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-25 | 20-19 | 0-1 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-23 | 19-11 | 1-5 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-24 | 5-12 | 1-7 | 2-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-13 | 7-5 | 5-3 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 435, the American got to the qualifications after beating Daniil Glinka 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, Sandgren had a good straight sets win against Glinka (6-4 7-5). During the match, Sandgren scored 70 points vs Glinka’s 61. Tennys was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about the service games, Sandgren blasted 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Tennys Sandgren was quite effective on serve to win 77% (34/44) of his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Glinka 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Sandgren has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (286-232). 9-10 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Sandgren has an aggregate 163-126 record in the last years on hard.
Tennys has an overall 12-19 win-loss record in 2022, 9-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Fairfield Challenger
Alex Michelsen
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-27 | 14-13 | 6-5 | 4-5 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 45-34 | 26-14 | 4-9 | 8-5 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 61-27 | 30-13 | 4-3 | 19-7 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-10 | 14-8 | 0-1 | 9-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 768 (career-high), the American reached the qualifications after beating Nathan Ponwith 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Alex had a good straight sets win against Ponwith (6-1 6-4). During the match Michelsen and Ponwith scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 435 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The American was not very aggressive do strike just winners.
Talking about serving, Michelsen wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Alex Michelsen conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.
Michelsen’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M15 San Diego and M15 Lubbock.
Alex has a composed 14-7 win-loss record in 2022, 14-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sandgren | Michelsen |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 17 |
| Pts | 70-61 | 0-0 |
| Total Points | 131 | 0 |
| Winners | 34 | 0 |
| %Winners | 49% | 0% |
Both Sandgren and Michelsen 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, Sandgren and Michelsen have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sandgren played 5 games more than Michelsen. The American scored 34 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, The American fired 0 winners (0%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sandgren | Michelsen |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 0 |
| 1st in | 44/67 | 0/0 |
| %1st in | 66% | 0% |
| 1st pts | 34/44 | 0/0 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 0% |
| 2nd pts | 12/23 | 0/0 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 0% |
Sandgren recorded 4 aces . Michelsen didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Sandgren won 77% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Michelsen won 0% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 0% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sandgren | Michelsen |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 0 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 0/0 |
| % Converted | 33% | 0% |
| Conceded | 5 | 0 |
| Saved | 4 | 0 |
| % Saved | 80% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Tennys broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Sandgren dropped his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. On the other side, Michelsen hasn’t manged yet to break his opponent. He didn’t manage to even clinch a single break point. Alex was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points without even conceding a single break point.
| Sandgren | |||
| Q1 Glinka | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 70-61 | 70-61 | |
| Total points | 131 | 131 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 44/67 | 44/67 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 34/44 | 34/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/23 | 12/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Michelsen | |||
| Q1 Ponwith | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | – | 0-0 | |
| Total points | 0 | 0 | |
| Winners | 0 | ||
| %Winners | 0% | 0% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | ||
| 1st in | / | 0/0 | |
| % 1st in | 0% | 0% | |
| 1st pts | / | 0/0 | |
| % 1st pts | 0% | 0% | |
| 2nd pts | / | 0/0 | |
| % 2nd pts | 0% | 0% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 0 | ||
| Converted | / | 0/0 | |
| Converted % | 0% | 0% | |
| Conceded | 0 | ||
| Saved | 0/ | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | ||
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