Adam Walton and Mukund Sasikumar will fight against each other in the quarter of the Pune Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 12:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Adam Walton who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Adam Walton is the pick to win this match.
Adam Walton -> 1.28
Mukund Sasikumar -> 3.38
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Prediction and head to head Adam Walton vs. Mukund Sasikumar
This will be the 3rd time that Adam Walton and Mukund Sasikumar square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Walton (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Walton won 6-4 6-3 in the qualifications in the Tyler Challenger back in 2023.
Adam Walton
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 54-37 | 46-27 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-30 | 53-26 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-12 | 41-10 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 154, Adam reached the quarter after defeating Raphael Collignon 7-61 6-2 and Tung-Lin Wu 6-0 6-75 7-64.
In the 2nd round, The Australian defeated Wu (6-0 6-75 7-64). During the match, Walton scored 106 points vs Wu’s 85. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 44 winners.
Regarding the service games, Walton fired 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Adam Walton was pretty efficient on serve to win 75% (44/59) of his 1st serve and 56% (19/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Adam broke Wu 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Adam has conceded 1 set in this tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Walton has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 68% of his matches (120-56). 12-5 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Walton has a composed115-47 match record in the last 6 years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Burnie 2 Challenger where he defeated Dane Sweeny in the final 6-2 7-6(4).
Walton has an overall 12-5 win-loss record in 2024, 12-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pune Challenger
Adam has never competed in this tournament before.
Mukund Sasikumar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 41-33 | 39-32 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-31 | 21-25 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-35 | 33-21 | 6-7 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-32 | 25-24 | 2-3 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-9 | 4-4 | 0-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 457, the Indian reached the quarter after beating Federico Gaio 6-3 6-2 and Felix Gill 6-1 6-0.
In the 2nd round, The Indian had a good straight sets win against Gill (6-1 6-0). During the match Kumar Mukund scored 54 points vs Gill’s 23. Sasi was extremely aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Talking about serving, Kumar Mukund managed to score 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Mukund Sasikumar was pretty efficient on serve to win 84% (16/19) of his 1st serve and 86% (12/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Indian broke Gill 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kumar Mukund hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 66% of the points he played.
The Indian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Chennai.
Sasi has an overall 9-5 win-loss record in 2024, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pune Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2018 and 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Walton | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 53 | 30 |
| Pts | 175-133 | 113-57 |
| Total Points | 308 | 170 |
| Winners | 75 | 45 |
| %Winners | 43% | 40% |
Both Walton and Kumar Mukund played 2 matches. At the moment, Adam Walton lost 1 set while Mukund Sasikumar hasn’t dropped a set so far. Walton has played 1 set more than Kumar Mukund (5 vs 4). Therefore, Walton played 23 games more than Kumar Mukund. The Australian scored 75 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Kumar Mukund fired 45 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Walton | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 21 |
| Avg per match | 4.5 | 10.5 |
| 1st in | 97/153 | 53/75 |
| %1st in | 63% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 75/97 | 45/53 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 85% |
| 2nd pts | 33/56 | 19/22 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 86% |
Walton scored 9 aces (4.5 per match). Kumar Mukund managed to score 21 aces (10.5 per match). Walton won 77% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Kumar Mukund won 85% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 86% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Walton | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 8 |
| Converted | 9/15 | 8/12 |
| % Converted | 60% | 67% |
| Conceded | 5 | 0 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 20% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 0 |
Walton broke his opponents 9 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Australian lost his serve 4 times and he saved 20% of the break points that he conceded. The Indian broke his opponents 8 times with a 67% conversion rate. Sasi was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Walton | ||||
| R1 Collignon |
R2 Wu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-61 6-2 | 6-0 6-75 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 32 | 53 | |
| pts | 69-48 | 106-85 | 175-133 | |
| Total points | 117 | 191 | 308 | |
| Winners | 31 | 44 | 75 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 42% | 43% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 6 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 38/60 | 59/93 | 97/153 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 31/38 | 44/59 | 75/97 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 75% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 19/34 | 33/56 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 56% | 59% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 6 | 9 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 6/9 | 9/15 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 67% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 1/4 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 25% | 13% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Kumar Mukund | ||||
| R1 Gaio |
R2 Gill |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 13 | 30 | |
| pts | 59-34 | 54-23 | 113-57 | |
| Total points | 93 | 77 | 170 | |
| Winners | 29 | 16 | 45 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 30% | 40% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 12 | 9 | 21 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 34/42 | 19/33 | 53/75 | |
| % 1st in | 81% | 58% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 29/34 | 16/19 | 45/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 84% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/8 | 12/14 | 19/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 88% | 86% | 86% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 5/7 | 8/12 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 71% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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