Maxwell Mckennon and Keegan Smith will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Indian Wells 2 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on PC3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Keegan Smith who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Keegan Smith is the pick to win this match.
Keegan Smith -> 1.47
Maxwell Mckennon -> 2.56

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Prediction and head to head Maxwell Mckennon vs. Keegan Smith

There is no head to head record between Maxwell Mckennon and Keegan Smith since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Maxwell Mckennon

Currently unranked, Maxwell got to the qualifications after defeating George Goldhoff 6-7¹ 6-2 6-0.

In the qualifications against Goldhoff, Maxwell recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7¹ 6-2 6-0). During the match, Mckennon scored 86 points vs Goldhoff’s 65. Mckennon was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Mckennon scored 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Maxwell Mckennon was very effective on serve to win 74% (29/39) of his 1st serve and 69% (22/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Maxwell broke Goldhoff 6 times after converting 46% of his break points (6/13).

Mckennon has a winning match record in the last 3 years having won 57% of his matches (20-15). 3-1 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Mckennon has an aggregate17-14 win-loss record in the last 3 years on hard.

Maxwell has an aggregate 3-1 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Indian Wells 2 Challenger

Keegan Smith

Ranked no. 590, Keegan got to the qualifications after beating Jacob Brumm 6-4 7-5.

In the qualifications, Smith had a good straight sets win against Brumm (6-4 7-5). During the match Smith scored 79 points vs Brumm’s 69. Keegan was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.

About the serving games, Smith managed to score 9 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Keegan Smith lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Smith put 61% of his first serves in, winning 64% (30/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the 2nd serve. Smith broke Brumm 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Keegan has a compiled 2-1 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Mckennon	Smith
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	27	22
Pts	86-65	79-69
Total Points	151	148
Winners	29	30
%Winners	34%	38%

Both Mckennon and Smith played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Maxwell Mckennon conceded 1 set while Keegan Smith hasn’t conceded a set so far. Mckennon has played 1 set more than Smith (3 vs 2). Therefore, Mckennon played 5 games more than Smith. Mckennon scored 29 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Smith fired 30 winners (38%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Mckennon	Smith
Aces	6	9
Avg per match	6	9
1st in	39/71	47/77
%1st in	55%	61%
1st pts	29/39	30/47
%1st pts	74%	64%
2nd pts	22/32	17/30
%2nd pts	69%	57%

Mckennon scored 6 aces . Smith bagged 9 aces . Mckennon won 74% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Smith won 64% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Mckennon	Smith
Won	6	4
Converted	6/13	4/8
% Converted	46%	50%
Conceded	1	5
Saved	0	3
% Saved	0%	60%
Times Broken	1	2

The American broke his opponent 6 times with a 46% conversion rate. Maxwell conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Keegan broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Smith conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.

Mckennon
	Q1 Goldhoff	Total
Score	6-71 6-2 6-0
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	27	27
pts	86-65	86-65
Total points	151	151
Winners	29	29
%Winners	34%	34%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	39/71	39/71
% 1st in	55%	55%
1st pts	29/39	29/39
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	22/32	22/32
% 2nd pts	69%	69%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/13	6/13
Converted %	46%	46%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

Smith
	Q1 Brumm	Total
Score	6-4 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	79-69	79-69
Total points	148	148
Winners	30	30
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	9	9
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	47/77	47/77
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	30/47	30/47
% 1st pts	64%	64%
2nd pts	17/30	17/30
% 2nd pts	57%	57%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/8	4/8
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	3/5	3
Saved %	60%	60%
Times Broken	2	2

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