Maxwell Mckennon and Learner Tien will face off in the 1^st round of the Indian Wells 1 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on PC5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Learner Tien who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Learner Tien is the pick to win this match.
Learner Tien -> 1.145
Maxwell Mckennon -> 5.05

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Prediction and head to head Maxwell Mckennon vs. Learner Tien

There is no head to head record between Maxwell Mckennon and Learner Tien since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Maxwell Mckennon

Currently unranked, the American got to the 1^st round after defeating Andre Ilagan 6-2 6-3 and Nicholas Godsick 4-6 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications against Godsick, Maxwell recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-2). During the match, Mckennon scored 75 points vs Godsick’s 64. Maxwell was exceptionally aggressive to blast 40 winners.

Regarding the service games, Mckennon bagged 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Maxwell Mckennon was very effective on serve to win 73% (40/55) of his 1st serve and 67% (10/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Mckennon broke Godsick 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Maxwell started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has surrendered 1 set in this tournament to conquer 57% of the points he played.

Mckennon has a winning match record in the last 3 years having won 58% of his matches (19-14). 2-0 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Mckennon has an aggregate16-13 match record in the last 3 years on hard.

Mckennon has a compiled 2-0 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Indian Wells 1 Challenger

Maxwell has never competed in this tournament before.

Learner Tien

Ranked no. 473, will start his run in the Indian Wells 1 Challenger after he won the title in M25 Columbus after beating 2-0 ret.

Fearnley in the final.

This will be the first match of the season on hard.

Tien won his last 5 matches.

In terms of his career, Learner has an overall 42-21 record. He has a positive 28-15 record on hard.

Tennis Scores in Indian Wells 1 Challenger

• Daniel CukiermanCukierman – Vasek PospisilPospisil (3-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ryan SeggermanSeggerman – Evan ZhuZhu (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Giovanni OradiniOradini – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (6-3 7-6¹) – Stats, scores, rankings
• James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Aidan MayoMayo (7-6⁵ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Benjamin LockLock – Lucas GerchGerch (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Matias SotoSoto (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Stefan KozlovKozlov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer – Ajeet RaiRai (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yshai OlielOliel – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Paul JubbJubb – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Daniel CukiermanCukierman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Maxwell MckennonMckennon – (0-0) – H2H and prediction