Valentin Royer and Alafia Ayeni will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT A. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Valentin Royer who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Valentin Royer is the pick to win this match.
Valentin Royer -> 1.74
Alafia Ayeni -> 2.01
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Prediction and head to head Valentin Royer vs. Alafia Ayeni
There is no head to head record between Valentin Royer and Alafia Ayeni since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Valentin Royer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-17 | 2-1 | 21-9 | 6-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-20 | 24-7 | 22-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-25 | 8-4 | 30-15 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-17 | 1-2 | 13-8 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-15 | 4-4 | 4-3 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 332, Valentin will start his run in the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Roanne Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-2 6-3 to Gaston in the 2nd round on the 10th of November.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Talking about his overall career, Valentin has an overall 109-66 record. He has a positive 23-14 record on hard.
Previously in the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Alafia Ayeni
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-20 | 13-12 | 6-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-22 | 17-13 | 1-3 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-19 | 22-15 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-20 | 12-10 | 3-2 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2020 | 5-7 | 3-3 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 433, the American got to the 1st round after beating Giovanni Oradini 6-3 6-3 and Ji Sung Nam 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Sung Nam (6-3 6-4). During the match Ayeni scored 69 points vs Sung Nam’s 58. The American was quite aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Ayeni struck 12 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Alafia Ayeni conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Ayeni put 70% of his first serves in, winning 80% (36/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (8/19) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Sung Nam twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ayeni started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 57% of the points he played.
Alafia has a composed 2-0 win-loss record in 2023, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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