Adam Walton and Mukund Sasikumar will square off in the qualifications of the Tyler Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Adam Walton who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Adam Walton is the pick to win this match.
Adam Walton -> 1.41
Mukund Sasikumar -> 2.75
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Prediction and head to head Adam Walton vs. Mukund Sasikumar
This will be the 2nd time that Adam Walton and Mukund Sasikumar clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Walton (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Walton won 6-7(3) 6-4 6-4 in the qualifications in the Little Rock Challenger back in May 2023.
Adam Walton
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-20 | 36-14 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 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. 288 (career-high), the Australian reached the qualifications after beating Harrison Adams 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Walton had a good straight sets win against Adams (6-3 6-3). During the match, Walton scored 57 points vs Adams’s 42. Adam was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Walton recorded 8 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Adam Walton was quite efficient on serve to win 77% (27/35) of his 1st serve and 68% (13/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Walton was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Adams 3 times.
Walton has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 70% of his matches (81-35). 29-13 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Walton has an aggregate79-29 record in the last 5 years on hard.
Adam’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Santo Domingo and M15 Tbilisi.
Walton has an aggregate 29-14 win-loss record in 2023, 29-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tyler Challenger
Walton has never competed in this tournament before.
Mukund Sasikumar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-17 | 18-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 383, the Indian reached the qualifications after beating Michael Zheng 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Kumar Mukund had a good straight sets win against Zheng (6-3 6-2). During the match Kumar Mukund scored 68 points vs Zheng’s 51. Kumar Mukund was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Kumar Mukund made 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Mukund Sasikumar was extremely effective on serve to win 79% (23/29) of his 1st serve and 53% (16/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Indian broke Zheng 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Kumar Mukund’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M25 Lucknow.
Kumar Mukund has an aggregate 14-15 win-loss record in 2023, 14-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Walton | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 17 |
| Pts | 57-42 | 68-51 |
| Total Points | 99 | 119 |
| Winners | 27 | 23 |
| %Winners | 47% | 34% |
Both Walton and Kumar Mukund played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Walton and Kumar Mukund have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Walton played 1 game more than Kumar Mukund. Walton scored 27 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The Indian bagged 23 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Walton | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 6 |
| 1st in | 35/54 | 29/59 |
| %1st in | 65% | 49% |
| 1st pts | 27/35 | 23/29 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 16/30 |
| %2nd pts | 68% | 53% |
Walton scored 8 aces . Kumar Mukund fired 6 aces . Walton won 77% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Kumar Mukund won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Walton | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 100% | 50% |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 |
| Saved | 1 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Walton broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Adam was rock solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Indian broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Indian conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Walton | |||
| Q1 Adams |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 57-42 | 57-42 | |
| Total points | 99 | 99 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 35/54 | 35/54 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 27/35 | 27/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 13/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kumar Mukund | |||
| Q1 Zheng |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 68-51 | 68-51 | |
| Total points | 119 | 119 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 29/59 | 29/59 | |
| % 1st in | 49% | 49% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/30 | 16/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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