Nathan Ponwith and James Kent Trotter will play each other in the 1st round of the Granby Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Kent Trotter who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, James Kent Trotter is the pick to win this match.
James Kent Trotter -> 1.48
Nathan Ponwith -> 2.51
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Prediction and head to head Nathan Ponwith vs. James Kent Trotter
This will be the 2nd time that Nathan Ponwith and James Kent Trotter square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kent (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Kent won 3-6 6-4 6-1 in the final in M25 Edwardsville back in 2022.
Nathan Ponwith
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-14 | 9-9 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-32 | 18-25 | 2-2 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-27 | 19-15 | 6-7 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-14 | 16-13 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 396, Ponwith got to the 1st round after defeating Marko Stakusic 6-4 6-4.
Ponwith has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 58% of his matches (129-94). 15-12 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Ponwith has a composed99-68 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
The American’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Wesley Chapel and M25 Calabasas.
The American has an aggregate 19-16 win-loss record in 2023, 15-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Granby Challenger
Nathan has never competed in this tournament before.
James Kent Trotter
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-12 | 7-6 | 1-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-13 | 15-10 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-11 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 579, Kent reached the 1st round after defeating Strong Kirchheimer 7-65 6-4 and Ezekiel Clark 7-5 6-4.
In the qualifications, Kent had a good straight sets win against Clark (7-5 6-4). During the match Kent scored 77 points vs Clark’s 64. Kent was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Kent submerged his opponent with 22 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, James Kent Trotter was exceptionally effective on serve to win 77% (33/43) of his 1st serve and 53% (18/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kent broke Clark 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
James’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M25 Wichita.
Kent has an overall 6-2 win-loss record in 2023, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ponwith | Kent |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 45 |
| Pts | 61-49 | 168-149 |
| Total Points | 110 | 317 |
| Winners | 27 | 79 |
| %Winners | 44% | 47% |
Ponwith played 1 match while Kent competed in 2 matches. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Ponwith has played 2 set(s) less than Kent (2 vs 4). Therefore, Ponwith played 25 games less than Kent. The American scored 27 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Kent recorded 79 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ponwith | Kent |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 37 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 18.5 |
| 1st in | 32/49 | 104/181 |
| %1st in | 65% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 27/32 | 79/104 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 13/17 | 37/77 |
| %2nd pts | 76% | 48% |
Ponwith scored 3 aces . Kent fired 37 aces (18.5 per match). Ponwith won 84% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 76% of the points. On the other side, Kent won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ponwith | Kent |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/6 | 4/11 |
| % Converted | 33% | 36% |
| Conceded | 0 | 16 |
| Saved | 0 | 15 |
| % Saved | 0% | 94% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Nathan broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. The American pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Japanese broke his opponents 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. James conceded his serve once and he saved 94% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ponwith | ||||
| Q1 Stakusic |
Q3 Kypson |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 21 | 41 | |
| pts | 61-49 | – | 61-49 | |
| Total points | 110 | 0 | 110 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | ||
| %Winners | 44% | 0% | 44% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1st in | 32/49 | / | 32/49 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 0% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 27/32 | / | 27/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 0% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/17 | / | 13/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 76% | 0% | 76% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 2 | ||
| Converted | 2/6 | / | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 0% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | ||
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/ | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | ||
| Kent | ||||
| Q1 Kirchheimer |
Q3 Clark |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-4 | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 22 | 45 | |
| pts | 91-85 | 77-64 | 168-149 | |
| Total points | 176 | 141 | 317 | |
| Winners | 46 | 33 | 79 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 43% | 47% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 15 | 22 | 37 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 3 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 61/104 | 43/77 | 104/181 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 56% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 46/61 | 33/43 | 79/104 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 77% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/43 | 18/34 | 37/77 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 53% | 48% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Converted | 1/5 | 3/6 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 50% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 5 | 16 | |
| Saved | 11/11 | 4/5 | 15 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 80% | 90% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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