Nishesh Basavareddy and Alex Michelsen will play each other in the quarter of the Fairfield Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 12:30 pm on TAD TAUBE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Michelsen who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alex Michelsen is the pick to win this match.
Alex Michelsen -> 1.42
Nishesh Basavareddy -> 2.76

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Prediction and head to head Nishesh Basavareddy vs. Alex Michelsen

There is no head to head record between Nishesh Basavareddy and Alex Michelsen since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Nishesh Basavareddy

Currently unranked, Nishesh reached the quarter after defeating Adam Walton 6-3 7-5 and Federico Agustin Gomez 6-0 1-0 ret..

In the 2^nd round against Agustin Gomez, Nishesh had a free pass after Agustin Gomez retired on a 6-0 1-0 . scoreline.

Basavareddy has a winning win-loss record in the last 2 years having won 53% of his matches (10-9). 8-3 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Basavareddy has a composed9-5 win-loss record in the last 2 years on hard.

Nishesh has an aggregate 8-4 win-loss record in 2023, 8-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Fairfield Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Alex Michelsen

Ranked no. 110 (career-high), Michelsen reached the quarter after beating Aziz Dougaz 2-6 7-6⁵ 6-0 and Thai Kwiatkowski 6-3 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, The American had a good straight sets win against Kwiatkowski (6-3 6-4). During the match Michelsen scored 69 points vs Kwiatkowski’s 51. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Michelsen wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Alex Michelsen lost the serve 3 times. Furthermore, Michelsen put 69% of his first serves in, winning 58% (23/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Kwiatkowski 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Alex has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Chicago Challenger where he overcame Yuta Shimizu in the final 7-5 6-2.

Michelsen has a compiled 52-21 win-loss record in 2023, 30-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Fairfield Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Basavareddy	Michelsen
Match played	2	2
Tot Set	5	5
Tot Games	28	46
Pts	97-68	159-130
Total Points	165	289
Winners	39	61
%Winners	40%	38%

Both Basavareddy and Michelsen played 2 matches. At the moment, Alex Michelsen lost 1 set while Nishesh Basavareddy hasn’t conceded a set so far. Talking about their workload, Basavareddy and Michelsen have played the same amount of sets 5. However, Basavareddy played 18 games less than Michelsen. Nishesh scored 39 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Alex blasted 61 winners (38%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Basavareddy	Michelsen
Aces	3	1
Avg per match	1.5	0.5
1st in	54/86	97/140
%1st in	63%	69%
1st pts	39/54	61/97
%1st pts	72%	63%
2nd pts	15/32	24/43
%2nd pts	47%	56%

Basavareddy struck 3 aces (1.5 per match). Michelsen fired 1 ace (0.5 per match). Basavareddy won 72% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Michelsen won 63% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Basavareddy	Michelsen
Won	8	10
Converted	8/14	10/21
% Converted	57%	48%
Conceded	6	9
Saved	3	2
% Saved	50%	22%
Times Broken	3	7

Basavareddy broke his opponents 8 times with a 57% conversion rate. Nishesh conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Michelsen broke his opponents 10 times with a 48% conversion rate. Michelsen conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 22% of the break points that he conceded.

Basavareddy
	R1 Walton	R2 Agustin	Total
Score	6-3 7-5	6-0 1-0 ret.
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	21	7	28
pts	68-57	29-11	97-68
Total points	125	40	165
Winners	27	12	39
%Winners	40%	41%	40%
SERVE
Aces	2	1	3
Double Faults	2	0	2
1st in	39/64	15/22	54/86
% 1st in	61%	68%	63%
1st pts	27/39	12/15	39/54
% 1st pts	69%	80%	72%
2nd pts	11/25	4/7	15/32
% 2nd pts	44%	57%	47%
Breaks
Won	5	3	8
Converted	5/10	3/4	8/14
Converted %	50%	75%	57%
Conceded	6	0	6
Saved	3/6	0/0	3
Saved %	50%	–	25%
Times Broken	3	0	3

Michelsen
	R1 Dougaz	R2 Kwiatkowski	Total
Score	2-6 7-65 6-0	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	3	2	5
Tot Games	27	19	46
pts	90-79	69-51	159-130
Total points	169	120	289
Winners	38	23	61
%Winners	42%	33%	38%
SERVE
Aces	1	0	1
Double Faults	3	2	5
1st in	57/82	40/58	97/140
% 1st in	70%	69%	69%
1st pts	38/57	23/40	61/97
% 1st pts	67%	58%	63%
2nd pts	11/25	13/18	24/43
% 2nd pts	44%	72%	56%
Breaks
Won	5	5	10
Converted	5/10	5/11	10/21
Converted %	50%	45%	48%
Conceded	6	3	9
Saved	2/6	0/3	2
Saved %	33%	0%	17%
Times Broken	4	3	7

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