Facundo Mena and Murphy Cassone will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Charlottesville Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on BRENDA MYERS COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Murphy Cassone who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Murphy Cassone is the pick to win this match.
Murphy Cassone -> 1.533
Facundo Mena -> 2.36
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Prediction and head to head Facundo Mena vs. Murphy Cassone
There is no head to head record between Facundo Mena and Murphy Cassone since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Facundo Mena
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-16 | 3-1 | 34-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-21 | 11-9 | 18-11 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-29 | 8-7 | 25-20 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-30 | 0-4 | 29-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-11 | 0-2 | 3-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 175, Facundo will start his run in the Charlottesville Challenger after he played his last match in the Las Vegas Challenger where he lost 6-1 0-6 6-4 to Galarneau in the 1st round on the 25th of October.
The Argentine has an aggregate 34-27 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
The Argentine’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Pereira Challenger and the Cali Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Argentine has an overall 377-272 record. He has a flat 0-0 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Charlottesville Challenger
Facundo has never competed in this tournament before.
Murphy Cassone
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2-6 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 6-8 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 20-9 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 534, Murphy reached the 1st round after beating Nick Chappell 7-5 6-3 and Strong Kirchheimer 4-6 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications against Kirchheimer, The American recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-1). During the match Cassone scored 80 points vs Kirchheimer’s 66. Murphy was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Cassone blasted 7 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Murphy Cassone was pretty effective on serve to win 73% (33/45) of his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Murphy broke Kirchheimer 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Cassone started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Cassone’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Columbus.
The American has a compiled 20-8 win-loss record in 2022, 8-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Denis KudlaKudla – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo MenaMena – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Stefan KozlovKozlov (3-4) – H2H and prediction
- Edan LeshemLeshem – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas GerchGerch – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aziz DougazDougaz – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nathan PonwithPonwith – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Nicolas MejiaMejia (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aidan MchughMchugh – Paul JubbJubb (1-0) – H2H and prediction
