Jeff Wolf and Alexander Ritschard will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the US Men’s Clay Court Championship for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 8:30 pm on STADIUM COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jeff Wolf who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jeff Wolf is the pick to win this match.
Jeff Wolf -> 1.44
Alexander Ritschard -> 2.8

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Prediction and head to head Jeff Wolf vs. Alexander Ritschard

This will be the 2^nd time that Jeff Wolf and Alexander Ritschard clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Wolf (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they played each other, Wolf won 7-6(5) 6-3 in the 2^nd round in the Tallahassee Challenger back in 2022.

Jeff Wolf

Ranked no. 94, Wolf will start his run in Houston after he played his last match in Miami where he lost 6-3 1-6 6-4 to Kopriva in the qualifications on the 19^th of March.

Wolf has a composed 1-6 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

This will be the first match of the season on clay.

Talking about his overall career, Wolf has an overall 165-118 record. He has a positive 14-13 record on clay.

Previously in Houston

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2023. See his history.

Alexander Ritschard

Ranked no. 194, Ritschard got to the 1^st round after beating Alex Rybakov 6-4 6-4 and Valentin Vacherot 7-6⁴ 7-6⁵.

In the qualifications, Alexander had a good straight sets win against Vacherot (7-6⁴ 7-6⁵). During the match Ritschard scored 90 points vs Vacherot’s 75. Alexander was very aggressive to blast 40 winners.

About the serving games, Ritschard recorded 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Alexander Ritschard was extremely efficient on serve to win 82% (40/49) of his 1st serve and 71% (17/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Ritschard started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 54% of the points he played.

Ritschard has an aggregate 14-7 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Houston

Alexander has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Houston

• Patrick KypsonKypson – Brandon HoltHolt (4-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Yibing WuWu – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (7-6³ 6-3) – See score progression
• Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-3 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Alexander RitschardRitschard – Valentin VacherotVacherot (7-6⁴ 7-6⁵) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Marcos GironGiron – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander RitschardRitschard – Jeff WolfWolf (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jordan ThompsonThompson – Yibing WuWu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Benoit PairePaire (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Michael MmohMmoh – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Patrick KypsonKypson – Zizou BergsBergs (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Christopher EubanksEubanks (1-0) – H2H and prediction