Adam Walton and Antoine Bellier will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Cuernavaca Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:00 pm on CANCHA 1. 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.
Adam Walton -> 1.25
Antoine Bellier -> 3.68
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Prediction and head to head Adam Walton vs. Antoine Bellier
This will be the 2nd time that Adam Walton and Antoine Bellier play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Bellier (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Bellier won 7-6(1) 7-6(5) in the 2nd round in the Leon 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. 135 (career-high), Adam reached the 2nd round after defeating Alafia Ayeni 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Walton had a good straight sets win against Ayeni (6-3 6-1). During the match, Walton scored 54 points vs Ayeni’s 25. Walton was quite aggressive to blast 14 winners.
Regarding the service games, Walton bagged 3 aces and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults. Adam Walton was quite effective on serve to win 93% (14/15) of his 1st serve and 95% (18/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Walton broke Ayeni 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Walton has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 67% of his matches (127-62). 19-10 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Walton has a compiled122-52 record in the last 6 years on hard.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Burnie 2 Challenger where he overcame Dane Sweeny in the final 6-2 7-6(4).
The Australian has a composed 19-11 win-loss record in 2024, 19-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cuernavaca Challenger
Adam has never competed in this tournament before.
Antoine Bellier
1 - 4win/loss
681
168
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-19 | 10-9 | 0-5 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-32 | 13-12 | 2-5 | 11-11 | 1-4 | 7-0 |
| 2022 | 39-32 | 14-10 | 8-3 | 7-13 | 9-4 | 1-2 |
| 2021 | 35-31 | 14-12 | 3-6 | 11-9 | 3-1 | 4-3 |
| 2020 | 12-8 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 9-2 | 0-0 | 2-3 |
Ranked no. 327, Antoine got to the 2nd round after beating Keegan Smith 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Bellier had a good straight sets win against Smith (6-4 6-3). During the match Bellier scored 55 points vs Smith’s 42. The Swiss was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Bellier blasted 10 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Antoine Bellier was quite efficient on serve to win 83% (30/36) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Bellier was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Smith twice.
The Swiss has an aggregate 1-3 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Walton | Bellier |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 19 |
| Pts | 54-25 | 55-42 |
| Total Points | 79 | 97 |
| Winners | 14 | 30 |
| %Winners | 26% | 55% |
Both Walton and Bellier played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Walton and Bellier have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Walton played 3 games less than Bellier. The Australian scored 14 winners (26% of the total points). On the other side, Bellier blasted 30 winners (55%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Walton | Bellier |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 10 |
| 1st in | 15/34 | 36/53 |
| %1st in | 44% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 14/15 | 30/36 |
| %1st pts | 93% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 18/19 | 11/17 |
| %2nd pts | 95% | 65% |
Walton recorded 3 aces . Bellier struck 10 aces . Walton won 93% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 95% of the points. On the other side, Bellier won 83% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Walton | Bellier |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 2 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 2/2 |
| % Converted | 57% | 100% |
| Conceded | 0 | 3 |
| Saved | 0 | 3 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Adam broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Australian very solid his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Antoine broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. Antoine was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Walton | |||
| R1 Ayeni | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 54-25 | 54-25 | |
| Total points | 79 | 79 | |
| Winners | 14 | 14 | |
| %Winners | 26% | 26% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 15/34 | 15/34 | |
| % 1st in | 44% | 44% | |
| 1st pts | 14/15 | 14/15 | |
| % 1st pts | 93% | 93% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/19 | 18/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 95% | 95% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Bellier | |||
| R1 Smith | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 55-42 | 55-42 | |
| Total points | 97 | 97 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 55% | 55% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 36/53 | 36/53 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 30/36 | 30/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 11/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/2 | 2/2 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (6-71 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Dominik PalanPalan (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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