James Duckworth and Jose Statham will face off in the 1st round of the Sydney Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Duckworth who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, James Duckworth is the pick to win this match.
James Duckworth -> 1.078
Jose Statham -> 6.85

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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Jose Statham

This will be the 3rd time that James Duckworth and Jose Statham face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Duckworth (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Duckworth won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Melbourne Challenger back in 2013.

James Duckworth

James Duckworth

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Rank
77
High
46
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 42-28 23-14 2-3 7-6 10-5 0-0
2023 51-28 43-21 1-3 5-2 2-2 0-0
2022 24-27 20-18 0-2 0-1 4-6 0-0
2021 36-24 15-9 1-2 12-9 8-4 0-0
2020 11-10 9-4 1-2 1-4 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 111, the Australian will start his run in the Sydney Challenger after he won the title in the Playford Challenger after beating 7-5 7-5 Lam Coleman Wong in the final.

The Australian has an overall 45-26 win-loss record in 2023, 42-21 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Shenzhen 2 Challenger where he overcame Chak Lam Coleman Wong in the final 6-0 6-1 and the Playford Challenger where he beat Chak Lam Coleman Wong in the final 7-5 7-5.

James won his last 10 matches.

Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 443-288 record. He has a positive 264-169 record on hard.

Previously in the Sydney Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.

Sydney Challenger
Duckworth's Record

Jose Statham

Jose Statham

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Rank
861
High
279
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 7-16 4-8 2-6 1-2 0-0 0-0
2023 26-31 20-23 4-7 2-1 0-0 0-0
2022 42-27 37-26 5-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 11-6 7-2 4-2 0-0 0-2 0-0
2020 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 451, Jose reached the 1st round after beating Thomas Nicholas Gadecki 6-4 6-3 and Kai Wehnelt 6-4 7-62.

In the qualifications, Jose had a good straight sets win against Wehnelt (6-4 7-62). During the match Statham scored 77 points vs Wehnelt’s 66. Jose was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.

About the serving games, Statham scored 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Jose Statham lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Statham put 64% of his first serves in, winning 75% (33/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. The Kiwi broke Wehnelt 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Jose 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 55% of the points he played.

Statham has a compiled 25-27 win-loss record in 2023, 19-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sydney Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.

Sydney Challenger
Statham's Record

Tennis Scores in Sydney Challenger

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