Adam Walton and Shuichi Sekiguchi will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Burnie Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 5. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Adam Walton who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Adam Walton is the pick to win this match.
Adam Walton -> 1.34
Shuichi Sekiguchi -> 3.06
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Prediction and head to head Adam Walton vs. Shuichi Sekiguchi
There is no head to head record between Adam Walton and Shuichi Sekiguchi since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Adam Walton
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 54-37 | 46-27 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-30 | 53-26 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-12 | 41-10 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 415 (career-high), the Australian reached the 2nd round after defeating Yuki Mochizuki 7-5 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Mochizuki (7-5 6-1). During the match, Walton scored 73 points vs Mochizuki’s 53. Walton was pretty aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Regarding the service games, Walton managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Adam Walton lost the serve once and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Walton put 76% of his first serves in, winning 70% (40/57) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. Adam broke Mochizuki 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Walton has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 71% of his matches (52-21). 2-2 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Walton has a composed50-16 win-loss record in the last 5 years on hard.
The Australian has a composed 2-2 win-loss record in 2023, 2-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Burnie Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Shuichi Sekiguchi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 23-14 | 22-13 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-14 | 28-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-9 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-6 | 5-4 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 54-22 | 47-18 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 6-2 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 556, Shuichi reached the 2nd round after defeating Dane Sweeny 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Sweeny (6-2 6-4). During the match Sekiguchi scored 65 points vs Sweeny’s 45. The Japanese was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Sekiguchi managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Shuichi Sekiguchi was very efficient on serve to win 76% (25/33) of his 1st serve and 78% (14/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Sweeny 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Shuichi has a compiled 1-0 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Walton | Sekiguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 18 |
| Pts | 73-53 | 65-45 |
| Total Points | 126 | 110 |
| Winners | 40 | 25 |
| %Winners | 55% | 38% |
Both Walton and Sekiguchi played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Walton and Sekiguchi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Walton played 1 game more than Sekiguchi. The Australian scored 40 winners (55% of the total points). On the other side, Shuichi struck 25 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Walton | Sekiguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 2 |
| 1st in | 57/75 | 33/51 |
| %1st in | 76% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 40/57 | 25/33 |
| %1st pts | 70% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 8/18 | 14/18 |
| %2nd pts | 44% | 78% |
Walton blasted 5 aces . Sekiguchi struck 2 aces . Walton won 70% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Sekiguchi won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 78% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Walton | Sekiguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 3/7 |
| % Converted | 44% | 43% |
| Conceded | 8 | 1 |
| Saved | 7 | 1 |
| % Saved | 88% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Adam broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Australian surrendered his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Japanese was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Walton | |||
| R1 Mochizuki |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 73-53 | 73-53 | |
| Total points | 126 | 126 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 55% | 55% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 57/75 | 57/75 | |
| % 1st in | 76% | 76% | |
| 1st pts | 40/57 | 40/57 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/18 | 8/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Sekiguchi | |||
| R1 Sweeny |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 65-45 | 65-45 | |
| Total points | 110 | 110 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/51 | 33/51 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 25/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/18 | 14/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 78% | 78% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Burnie Challenger
- Blake EllisEllis – Luke SavilleSaville (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- James McCabeMcCabe – Omar JasikaJasika (6-3 7-61) – See score progression
- Dayne KellyKelly – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (3-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Jake DelaneyDelaney – Jeremy JinJin (7-5 7-65) – See score progression
- Shinji HazawaHazawa – Charlie CamusCamus (6-4 2-6 7-64) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Daisuke SumizawaSumizawa (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Philip SekulicSekulic – Matthew Christopher RomiosChristopher Romios (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Makoto OchiOchi (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Brandon WalkinWalkin (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-3 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Thomas FancuttFancutt – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (3-6 7-64 7-5) – See score progression
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Maxime ChazalChazal (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi – Dane SweenySweeny (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Alex BoltBolt (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Adam WaltonWalton – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Jake DelaneyDelaney (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Marc PolmansPolmans (4-4) – H2H and prediction
- Thomas FancuttFancutt – Shinji HazawaHazawa (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Blake EllisEllis – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction
