Edan Leshem and Mukund Sasikumar will play each other in the qualifications of the Seoul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on COURT 2. 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 Edan Leshem who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Edan Leshem is the pick to win this match.
Edan Leshem -> 1.6
Mukund Sasikumar -> 2.23
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Prediction and head to head Edan Leshem vs. Mukund Sasikumar
There is no head to head record between Edan Leshem and Mukund Sasikumar since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Edan Leshem
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1-4 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-17 | 6-8 | 1-1 | 9-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-30 | 33-20 | 0-0 | 6-9 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 24-19 | 19-13 | 0-2 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-12 | 2-7 | 1-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 325, Edan reached the qualifications after beating Yunseok Jang 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Edan had a good straight sets win against Jang (6-3 6-2). During the match, Leshem scored 66 points vs Jang’s 47. The Israeli was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Leshem blasted 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Edan Leshem lost the serve 3 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Leshem put 53% of his first serves in, winning 69% (24/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (13/31) on the 2nd serve. Edan broke Jang 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Leshem has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (265-186). 1-3 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Leshem has a compiled224-130 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Israeli has an aggregate 10-10 win-loss record in 2023, 1-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Edan has never competed in this tournament before.
Mukund Sasikumar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 41-33 | 39-32 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-31 | 21-25 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-35 | 33-21 | 6-7 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-32 | 25-24 | 2-3 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-9 | 4-4 | 0-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 380, Kumar Mukund reached the qualifications after defeating Woobin Shin 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Kumar Mukund had a good straight sets win against Shin (6-3 6-4). During the match Kumar Mukund scored 66 points vs Shin’s 48. Sasi was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Kumar Mukund managed to score 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Mukund Sasikumar was quite effective on serve to win 80% (32/40) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kumar Mukund broke Shin twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Kumar Mukund’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Lucknow.
Kumar Mukund has an overall 10-11 win-loss record in 2023, 10-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Leshem | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 19 |
| Pts | 66-47 | 66-48 |
| Total Points | 113 | 114 |
| Winners | 24 | 32 |
| %Winners | 36% | 48% |
Both Leshem and Kumar Mukund played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Leshem and Kumar Mukund have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Leshem played 2 games less than Kumar Mukund. The Israeli scored 24 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Sasi made 32 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Leshem | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 8 |
| 1st in | 35/66 | 40/58 |
| %1st in | 53% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 24/35 | 32/40 |
| %1st pts | 69% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 13/31 | 11/18 |
| %2nd pts | 42% | 61% |
Leshem struck 2 aces . Kumar Mukund scored 8 aces . Leshem won 69% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Kumar Mukund won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Leshem | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 2 |
| Converted | 6/9 | 2/3 |
| % Converted | 67% | 67% |
| Conceded | 11 | 3 |
| Saved | 8 | 3 |
| % Saved | 73% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Edan broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. Edan conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded. Sasi broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Kumar Mukund was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Leshem | |||
| Q1 Jang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 66-47 | 66-47 | |
| Total points | 113 | 113 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 35/66 | 35/66 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 24/35 | 24/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/31 | 13/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 8/11 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 73% | 73% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Kumar Mukund | |||
| Q1 Shin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 66-48 | 66-48 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 40/58 | 40/58 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 32/40 | 32/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 11/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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