Thai Kwiatkowski and Tim Handel will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Indian Wells 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 10:00 am on PC5. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Thai Kwiatkowski who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Thai Kwiatkowski is the pick to win this match.
Thai Kwiatkowski -> 1.37
Tim Handel -> 2.93
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Prediction and head to head Thai Kwiatkowski vs. Tim Handel
There is no head to head record between Thai Kwiatkowski and Tim Handel since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Thai Kwiatkowski
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-14 | 17-5 | 1-6 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-24 | 23-15 | 7-3 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 2-5 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-24 | 5-9 | 9-6 | 5-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-9 | 11-7 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 316, Thai got to the 2nd round after beating Bruno Kuzuhara 6-3 7-66.
In the 1st round, Thai had a good straight sets win against Kuzuhara (6-3 7-66). During the match, Kwiatkowski scored 79 points vs Kuzuhara’s 64. The American was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kwiatkowski fired 6 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Thai Kwiatkowski lost the serve 4 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Kwiatkowski put 52% of his first serves in, winning 68% (23/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (15/31) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Kuzuhara 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).
Kwiatkowski has good match record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (192-137). 1-0 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kwiatkowski has a composed 121-82 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
The American has a compiled 3-1 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Indian Wells 1 Challenger
Tim Handel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-11 | 2-2 | 8-6 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 49-30 | 2-3 | 41-19 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 3-4 |
| 2022 | 32-22 | 5-2 | 22-15 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 43-22 | 9-9 | 31-11 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-5 | 7-2 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 387, Tim got to the 2nd round after defeating James Tracy 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, The German had a good straight sets win against Tracy (6-3 6-4). During the match Handel scored 75 points vs Tracy’s 62. Tim was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Handel struck 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Tim Handel lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Handel put 57% of his first serves in, winning 67% (29/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 58% (19/33) on the 2nd serve. Tim broke Tracy 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Tim has an aggregate 2-1 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kwiatkowski | Handel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 19 |
| Pts | 79-64 | 75-62 |
| Total Points | 143 | 137 |
| Winners | 23 | 29 |
| %Winners | 29% | 39% |
Both Kwiatkowski and Handel played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kwiatkowski and Handel have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kwiatkowski played 3 games more than Handel. The American scored 23 winners (29% of the total points). On the other side, Tim made 29 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kwiatkowski | Handel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 4 |
| 1st in | 34/65 | 43/76 |
| %1st in | 52% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 23/34 | 29/43 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 15/31 | 19/33 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 58% |
Kwiatkowski struck 6 aces . Handel managed to score 4 aces . Kwiatkowski won 68% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Handel won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kwiatkowski | Handel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 3 |
| Converted | 6/8 | 3/8 |
| % Converted | 75% | 38% |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 |
| Saved | 2 | 5 |
| % Saved | 33% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 1 |
The American broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Kwiatkowski lost his serve 4 times and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Handel broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Handel conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kwiatkowski | |||
| R1 Kuzuhara |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 79-64 | 79-64 | |
| Total points | 143 | 143 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 29% | 29% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 34/65 | 34/65 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 23/34 | 23/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/31 | 15/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 2/6 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Handel | |||
| R1 Tracy |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 75-62 | 75-62 | |
| Total points | 137 | 137 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 43/76 | 43/76 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 29/43 | 29/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/33 | 19/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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