Alafia Ayeni and Mikalai Haliak will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Shanghai Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mikalai Haliak who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mikalai Haliak is the pick to win this match.
Mikalai Haliak -> 1.54
Alafia Ayeni -> 2.36
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Prediction and head to head Alafia Ayeni vs. Mikalai Haliak
There is no head to head record between Alafia Ayeni and Mikalai Haliak since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Alafia Ayeni
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-26 | 19-17 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-22 | 17-13 | 1-3 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-19 | 22-15 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-20 | 12-10 | 3-2 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2020 | 5-7 | 3-3 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 519, Alafia reached the 1st round after defeating Linghao Zhang 6-3 6-4 and Robert Strombachs 4-6 6-4 7-61.
In the qualifications against Strombachs, Alafia recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 7-61). During the match, Ayeni scored 92 points vs Strombachs’s 91. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Regarding the service games, Ayeni managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Alafia Ayeni lost the serve 4 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Ayeni put 57% of his first serves in, winning 77% (40/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (19/40) on the 2nd serve. Ayeni broke Strombachs 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ayeni started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has lost 1 set in this tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Ayeni has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 53% of his matches (133-120). 14-10 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Ayeni has an overall86-80 record in the last 8 years on hard.
The American’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Los Angeles.
Ayeni has a composed 14-13 win-loss record in 2023, 14-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shanghai Challenger
Mikalai Haliak
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-31 | 11-19 | 5-7 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-28 | 12-9 | 25-13 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 26-25 | 5-7 | 15-12 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-11 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 16-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-7 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 567 (career-high), Haliak will start his run in the Shanghai Challenger after he played his last match in the Zhangjiagang Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-2 to Atmane in the final on the 3rd of September.
The Belarussian has a compiled 38-20 win-loss record in 2023, 7-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Haliak’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Baotou and the Zhangjiagang Challenger.
In terms of his career, The Belarussian has an overall 193-170 record. He has a negative 47-54 record on hard.
Head 2 Head
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- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Rigele TeTe (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dane SweenySweeny – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Hanyi LiuLiu (6-1 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Luke SavilleSaville (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Omar JasikaJasika (6-3 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Alex BoltBolt (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Li TuTu – Philip SekulicSekulic (6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Nick ChappellChappell (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine BellierBellier – Arjun KadheKadhe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tao MuMu – Yan BaiBai (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alafia AyeniAyeni – Mikalai HaliakHaliak (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
