Adam Walton and Mukund Sasikumar will fight against each other in the quarter of the Pune Challenger for the 3^rd 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 3^rd 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

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 2^nd 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

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 2^nd 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

Tennis Scores in Pune Challenger

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