James Duckworth and Prajnesh Gunneswaran will play each other in the 1st round of the Pune Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 James Duckworth who should win in 2 sets.
James Duckworth -> 1.37
Prajnesh Gunneswaran -> 2.91
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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Prajnesh Gunneswaran
This will be the 5th time that James Duckworth and Prajnesh Gunneswaran face off. The head to head is 2-2 (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Duckworth won 7-5 6-1 in the 1st round in the Playford Challenger back in 2022.
James Duckworth
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 42-29 | 23-14 | 2-3 | 7-7 | 10-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-28 | 43-21 | 1-3 | 5-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-27 | 20-18 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 4-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-24 | 15-9 | 1-2 | 12-9 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-10 | 9-4 | 1-2 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 112, James will start his run in the Pune Challenger after he played his last match in the Bengaluru Challenger where he lost 3-6 7-5 7-6(5) to Purcell in the final on the 26th of February.
The Australian has an overall 12-6 win-loss record in 2023, 12-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Australian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Burnie Challenger and the Bengaluru Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, James has an overall 410-268 record. He has a positive 234-154 record on hard.
Previously in the Pune Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2019. See his history.
Prajnesh Gunneswaran
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 10-6 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-25 | 19-18 | 0-2 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-28 | 8-12 | 0-6 | 11-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-15 | 12-8 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2019 | 33-26 | 26-15 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 1-7 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 313, the Indian will start his run in the Pune Challenger after he played his last match in the Bengaluru Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4
to Medjedovic in the 1st round on the 21st of February.Prajnesh has an overall 10-5 win-loss record in 2023, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Gunneswaran’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Al Zahra.
In terms of his career, Gunneswaran has an overall 307-205 record. He has a positive 210-118 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Pune Challenger
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Marek GengelGengel (4-6 6-2 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Marc PolmansPolmans (1-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Yunseong ChungChung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Sumit NagalNagal (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Arjun KadheKadhe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin LockLock – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Akira SantillanSantillan – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Makoto OchiOchi – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Harold MayotMayot – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – (0-0) – H2H and prediction