Mitchell Harper and Ajeet Rai will face off in the qualifications of the Sydney Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:30 am on COURT 4. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ajeet Rai who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ajeet Rai is the pick to win this match.
Ajeet Rai -> 1.48
Mitchell Harper -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Mitchell Harper vs. Ajeet Rai
There is no head to head record between Mitchell Harper and Ajeet Rai since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Mitchell Harper
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-13 | 7-8 | 2-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 6-9 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-19 | 26-17 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Harper got to the qualifications after defeating Jesse Delaney 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Delaney (6-3 6-1). During the match, Harper scored 54 points vs Delaney’s 38. The Australian was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Harper scored 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Mitchell Harper conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Harper put 74% of his first serves in, winning 80% (28/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. Harper broke Delaney 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Harper has a solid win-loss record in the last 2 years having won 61% of his matches (25-16). 25-16 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Harper has an aggregate25-16 record in the last 2 years on hard.
Mitchell’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Caloundra.
Harper has an aggregate 25-16 win-loss record in 2022, 25-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
Mitchell has never competed in this tournament before.
Ajeet Rai
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-33 | 33-25 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-28 | 19-24 | 4-2 | 1-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-25 | 38-24 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-19 | 22-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-5 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 588 (career-high), the Kiwi reached the qualifications after beating Matthew Hulme 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, Rai had a good straight sets win against Hulme (6-2 6-1). During the match Rai scored 57 points vs Hulme’s 32. Ajeet was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Rai bagged 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Ajeet Rai was very efficient on serve to win 80% (20/25) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ajeet was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Hulme 5 times.
The Kiwi’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Changwon and M25 Tay Ninh.
Ajeet has an overall 28-20 win-loss record in 2022, 28-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Harper | Rai |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 15 |
| Pts | 54-38 | 57-32 |
| Total Points | 92 | 89 |
| Winners | 28 | 20 |
| %Winners | 52% | 35% |
Both Harper and Rai 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, Harper and Rai have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Harper played 1 game more than Rai. Mitchell scored 28 winners (52% of the total points). On the other side, The Kiwi managed to score 20 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Harper | Rai |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 2 |
| 1st in | 35/47 | 25/44 |
| %1st in | 74% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 28/35 | 20/25 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 6/12 | 10/19 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 53% |
Harper fired 9 aces . Rai scored 2 aces . Harper won 80% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Rai won 80% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Harper | Rai |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 5/5 |
| % Converted | 80% | 100% |
| Conceded | 3 | 1 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The Australian broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. The Australian pretty effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points. Rai broke his opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Kiwi was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Harper | |||
| Q1 Delaney |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 54-38 | 54-38 | |
| Total points | 92 | 92 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 52% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 35/47 | 35/47 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 28/35 | 28/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Rai | |||
| Q1 Hulme |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 57-32 | 57-32 | |
| Total points | 89 | 89 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 25/44 | 25/44 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 20/25 | 20/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 10/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/5 | 5/5 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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