Ajeet Rai and Luke Saville will face off in the 1st round of the Sydney Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 5. 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 Luke Saville who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Luke Saville is the pick to win this match.
Luke Saville -> 1.285
Ajeet Rai -> 3.36
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Prediction and head to head Ajeet Rai vs. Luke Saville
This will be the 2nd time that Ajeet Rai and Luke Saville fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Saville (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Saville won 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in M25 Brisbane back in 2019.
Ajeet Rai
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-17 | 9-10 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 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. 542 (career-high), the Kiwi reached the 1st round after beating Matthew Hulme 6-2 6-1.
Rai has a winning match record in the last 5 years having won 58% of his matches (103-74). 28-20 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Rai has an aggregate93-65 win-loss record in the last 5 years on hard.
Rai’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Changwon and M25 Tay Ninh.
Ajeet has an aggregate 28-21 win-loss record in 2022, 28-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
Rai has never competed in this tournament before.
Luke Saville
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-15 | 10-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-26 | 28-18 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 14-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-11 | 18-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 638, the Australian got to the 1st round after defeating Corey Gaal 3-6 6-1 7-5 and Kazuma Kawachi 7-62 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Kawachi (7-62 6-1). During the match Saville scored 65 points vs Kawachi’s 51. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Saville blasted 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Luke Saville was pretty efficient on serve to win 75% (33/44) of his 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke Kawachi 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Saville started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Luke has an overall 14-8 win-loss record in 2022, 14-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Rai | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 48 |
| Pts | 57-32 | 162-134 |
| Total Points | 89 | 296 |
| Winners | 20 | 72 |
| %Winners | 35% | 44% |
Rai played 1 match while Saville competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Luke Saville dropped 1 set while Ajeet Rai hasn’t conceded a set so far. Rai has played 3 set(s) less than Saville (2 vs 5). Therefore, Rai played 33 games less than Saville. Rai scored 20 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian managed to score 72 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Rai | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 17 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 8.5 |
| 1st in | 25/44 | 96/149 |
| %1st in | 57% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 20/25 | 72/96 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 30/53 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 57% |
Rai bagged 2 aces . Saville recorded 17 aces (8.5 per match). Rai won 80% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Saville won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Rai | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 7 |
| Converted | 5/5 | 7/16 |
| % Converted | 100% | 44% |
| Conceded | 1 | 9 |
| Saved | 1 | 6 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
Ajeet broke his opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. Rai was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. Saville broke his opponents 7 times with a 44% conversion rate. Saville conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Rai | ||||
| Q1 Hulme |
Q3 Harper |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | 6-4 3-6 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 27 | 42 | |
| pts | 57-32 | – | 57-32 | |
| Total points | 89 | 0 | 89 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | ||
| %Winners | 35% | 0% | 35% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | ||
| 1st in | 25/44 | / | 25/44 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 0% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 20/25 | / | 20/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 0% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | / | 10/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 0% | 53% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | ||
| Converted | 5/5 | / | 5/5 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 0% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | ||
| Saved | 1/1 | 0/ | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | ||
| Saville | ||||
| Q1 Gaal |
Q3 Kawachi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 6-1 7-5 | 7-62 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 20 | 48 | |
| pts | 97-83 | 65-51 | 162-134 | |
| Total points | 180 | 116 | 296 | |
| Winners | 39 | 33 | 72 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 51% | 44% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 11 | 6 | 17 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 2 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 52/84 | 44/65 | 96/149 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 68% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 39/52 | 33/44 | 72/96 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/32 | 11/21 | 30/53 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 52% | 57% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | 3/4 | 7/16 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 75% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3/4 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 75% | 68% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
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