Ezekiel Clark and Patrick Maloney will square off in the 1^st round of the Cleveland Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 4. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Patrick Maloney who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Patrick Maloney is the pick to win this match.
Patrick Maloney -> 1.571
Ezekiel Clark -> 2.3

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Prediction and head to head Ezekiel Clark vs. Patrick Maloney

There is no head to head record between Ezekiel Clark and Patrick Maloney since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Ezekiel Clark

Ranked no. 596, Clark reached the 1^st round after defeating Keenan Mayo 4-6 6-3 7-5.

Clark has a winning record in the last 8 years having won 55% of his matches (146-119). 1-1 on indoor hard courts in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Clark has an overall19-27 record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.

The American has a compiled 2-3 win-loss record in 2024, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Cleveland Challenger

Patrick Maloney

Ranked no. 891, the American got to the 1^st round after beating Jacob Brumm 6-3 6-1 and Preston Brown 6-2 6-1.

In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Brown (6-2 6-1). During the match Maloney scored 63 points vs Brown’s 37. The American was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Maloney scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Patrick Maloney conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 76% of his first serves in, win 81% (26/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (4/10) on the 2nd serve. Maloney broke Brown 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Patrick started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 62% of the points he played.

Patrick has an overall 6-3 win-loss record in 2024, 4-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Cleveland Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Clark	Maloney
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	3	4
Tot Games	31	31
Pts	106-105	123-75
Total Points	211	198
Winners	49	49
%Winners	46%	40%

Clark played 1 match while Maloney competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Ezekiel Clark lost 1 set while Patrick Maloney hasn’t conceded a set so far. Clark has played 1 set(s) less than Maloney (3 vs 4). However, it is interesting to notice that they played the same amount of games (31). Clark scored 49 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The American bagged 49 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Clark	Maloney
Aces	2	6
Avg per match	2	3
1st in	79/117	60/81
%1st in	68%	74%
1st pts	49/79	49/60
%1st pts	62%	82%
2nd pts	17/38	10/21
%2nd pts	45%	48%

Clark bagged 2 aces . Maloney blasted 6 aces (3 per match). Clark won 62% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Maloney won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Clark	Maloney
Won	6	10
Converted	6/20	10/18
% Converted	30%	56%
Conceded	13	1
Saved	8	0
% Saved	62%	0%
Times Broken	5	1

Ezekiel broke his opponent 6 times with a 30% conversion rate. Clark surrendered his serve 5 times and he saved 62% of the break points that he conceded. Maloney broke his opponents 10 times with a 56% conversion rate. Maloney conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

Clark
	Q1 Mayo	Q3 Kozlov	Total
Score	4-6 6-3 7-5	6-1 6-4
Tot Set	3	2	5
Tot Games	31	17	48
pts	106-105	–	106-105
Total points	211	0	211
Winners	49		49
%Winners	46%	0%	46%
SERVE
Aces	2	0	2
Double Faults	3		3
1st in	79/117	/	79/117
% 1st in	68%	0%	68%
1st pts	49/79	/	49/79
% 1st pts	62%	0%	62%
2nd pts	17/38	/	17/38
% 2nd pts	45%	0%	45%
Breaks
Won	6		6
Converted	6/20	/	6/20
Converted %	30%	0%	30%
Conceded	13		13
Saved	8/13	0/	8
Saved %	62%	–	31%
Times Broken	5		5

Maloney
	Q1 Brumm	Q3 Brown	Total
Score	6-3 6-1	6-2 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	16	15	31
pts	60-38	63-37	123-75
Total points	98	100	198
Winners	23	26	49
%Winners	38%	41%	40%
SERVE
Aces	5	1	6
Double Faults	2	1	3
1st in	28/39	32/42	60/81
% 1st in	72%	76%	74%
1st pts	23/28	26/32	49/60
% 1st pts	82%	81%	82%
2nd pts	6/11	4/10	10/21
% 2nd pts	55%	40%	48%
Breaks
Won	5	5	10
Converted	5/8	5/10	10/18
Converted %	63%	50%	56%
Conceded	1	0	1
Saved	0/1	0/0	0
Saved %	0%	–	0%
Times Broken	1	0	1

Tennis Scores in Cleveland Challenger

• James DuckworthDuckworth – Toby Alex KodatAlex Kodat (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Patrick KypsonKypson – Nathan PonwithPonwith (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Tim HandelHandel (6-7⁶ 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ethan QuinnQuinn – Aidan MayoMayo (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Quinn VandecasteeleVandecasteele – Bruno KuzuharaKuzuhara (6-4 4-6 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Sebastian FanselowFanselow – William GrantGrant (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Nick ChappellChappell (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Noah RubinRubin – Matija PecoticPecotic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Stefan KozlovKozlov – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lucas GerchGerch – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Thomas FancuttFancutt – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Emilio NavaNava – Gabi Adrian BoitanAdrian Boitan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Keegan SmithSmith – Denis KudlaKudla (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Patrick MaloneyMaloney – Ezekiel ClarkClark (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – (0-0) – H2H and prediction