Max Purcell and Mate Valkusz will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on Kia Arena. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Max Purcell who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Max Purcell is the pick to win this match.
Max Purcell -> 1.141
Mate Valkusz -> 5.7
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Prediction and head to head Max Purcell vs. Mate Valkusz
There is no head to head record between Max Purcell and Mate Valkusz since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Max Purcell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-24 | 10-16 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-28 | 45-17 | 2-3 | 5-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-29 | 21-15 | 5-8 | 2-2 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-14 | 13-9 | 0-1 | 4-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-12 | 3-5 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 45, Max will start his run at the Australian Open after he played his last match in Auckland where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Daniel in the 2nd round on the 10th of January.
Purcell has a composed 1-2 win-loss record in 2024, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 263-189 record. He has a positive 196-129 record on hard.
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2020 and 2023. See his history.
Mate Valkusz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-7 | 0-1 | 20-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 6-8 | 3-2 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-24 | 5-2 | 23-14 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 33-14 | 5-5 | 27-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-9 | 4-2 | 27-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 214, Valkusz got to the 1st round after defeating Tung-Lin Wu 7-60 6-4, Francisco Comesana 2-6 6-4 6-2 and Andrea Vavassori 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Mate had a good straight sets win against Vavassori (6-1 6-4). During the match Valkusz scored 67 points vs Vavassori’s 48. Mate was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Valkusz bagged 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Mate Valkusz was pretty efficient on serve to win 75% (27/36) of his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Mate broke Vavassori 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Hungarian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
The Hungarian has an aggregate 3-1 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
The Hungarian has never competed in this tournament before.
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