Vadym Ursu and S D Prajwal Dev will play each other in the qualifications of the Chennai Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 2:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is S D Prajwal Dev who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, S D Prajwal Dev is the pick to win this match.
S D Prajwal Dev -> 1.87
Vadym Ursu -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Vadym Ursu vs. S D Prajwal Dev
This will be the 2nd time that Vadym Ursu and S D Prajwal Dev clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ursu (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Ursu won 6-2 0-6 6-3 in the 2nd round in M25 Kigali back in 2023.
Vadym Ursu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-14 | 22-10 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-12 | 34-9 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 437 (career-high), Ursu reached the qualifications after defeating Manish Sureshkumar 7-66 6-3.
In the qualifications, Vadym had a good straight sets win against Sureshkumar (7-66 6-3). During the match, Ursu scored 76 points vs Sureshkumar’s 70. Ursu was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Ursu recorded 4 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Vadym Ursu lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Ursu put 56% of his first serves in, winning 68% (27/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (13/31) on the 2nd serve. The Ukrainian broke Sureshkumar 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Ursu has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 66% of his matches (68-35). 1-0 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Ursu has an aggregate44-16 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.
Ursu has an overall 3-2 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Chennai Challenger
Vadym has never competed in this tournament before.
S D Prajwal Dev
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-13 | 8-7 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-29 | 29-23 | 11-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-19 | 21-17 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-11 | 8-8 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-5 | 0-1 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 612, D Prajwal Dev got to the qualifications after defeating Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-3 7-5.
In the qualifications, S had a good straight sets win against Sanjeev Shanmugam (6-3 7-5). During the match D Prajwal Dev scored 68 points vs Sanjeev Shanmugam’s 51. D Prajwal Dev was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, D Prajwal Dev bagged 2 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, S D Prajwal Dev was extremely efficient on serve to win 72% (31/43) of his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. D Prajwal Dev was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Sanjeev Shanmugam 3 times.
The Indian has a compiled 1-1 win-loss record in 2024, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ursu | D Prajwal Dev |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 21 |
| Pts | 76-70 | 68-51 |
| Total Points | 146 | 119 |
| Winners | 27 | 31 |
| %Winners | 36% | 46% |
Both Ursu and D Prajwal Dev played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Ursu and D Prajwal Dev have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Ursu played 1 game more than D Prajwal Dev. Vadym scored 27 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, S scored 31 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ursu | D Prajwal Dev |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 2 |
| 1st in | 40/71 | 43/61 |
| %1st in | 56% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 27/40 | 31/43 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 13/31 | 13/18 |
| %2nd pts | 42% | 72% |
Ursu struck 4 aces . D Prajwal Dev recorded 2 aces . Ursu won 68% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, D Prajwal Dev won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 72% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ursu | D Prajwal Dev |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 3/3 |
| % Converted | 56% | 100% |
| Conceded | 7 | 6 |
| Saved | 4 | 5 |
| % Saved | 57% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
Ursu broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Ukrainian lost his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded. S broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. D Prajwal Dev conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ursu | |||
| Q1 Sureshkumar |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 76-70 | 76-70 | |
| Total points | 146 | 146 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 40/71 | 40/71 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 27/40 | 27/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/31 | 13/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| D Prajwal Dev | |||
| Q1 Sanjeev Shanmugam |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 68-51 | 68-51 | |
| Total points | 119 | 119 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 43/61 | 43/61 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 31/43 | 31/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/18 | 13/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 72% | 72% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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