Adam Walton and Alex Bolt will square off in the 2nd round of the Wuxi Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 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.
As per the initial odds, Adam Walton is the pick to win this match.
Adam Walton -> 1.36
Alex Bolt -> 2.98
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Prediction and head to head Adam Walton vs. Alex Bolt
This will be the 5th time that Adam Walton and Alex Bolt clash against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Bolt (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on hard.
The last time that they played, Walton won 7-6(0) 6-1 in the 2nd round in the Guangzhou Challenger back in May 2024.
Adam Walton
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-16 | 36-14 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 111 (career-high), Adam got to the 2nd round after beating James McCabe 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against McCabe (6-2 6-3). During the match, Walton scored 62 points vs McCabe’s 39. The Australian was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Walton fired 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Adam Walton was quite efficient on serve to win 73% (22/30) of his 1st serve and 72% (21/29) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke McCabe 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Walton has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 68% of his matches (138-65). 30-13 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Walton has a compiled133-55 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
His best result of the season was winning the title the Burnie 2 Challenger where he defeated Dane Sweeny in the final 6-2 7-6(4).
Adam has an aggregate 30-14 win-loss record in 2024, 30-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Wuxi Challenger
Walton has never competed in this tournament before.
Alex Bolt
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-11 | 19-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 9-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-22 | 22-17 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-10 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-18 | 7-6 | 0-7 | 2-2 | 10-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-12 | 12-8 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 238, Alex reached the 2nd round after defeating Antoine Escoffier 7-61 7-63.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Escoffier (7-61 7-63). During the match Bolt scored 90 points vs Escoffier’s 83. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Bolt blasted 4 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Alex Bolt lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Bolt put 56% of his first serves in, winning 78% (38/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (16/38) on the 2nd serve. Bolt broke Escoffier 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Bolt’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Burnie 1 Challenger,M25 Traralgon,M25 Mildura and M25 Swan Hill.
Alex has a composed 28-10 win-loss record in 2024, 19-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Walton | Bolt |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 26 |
| Pts | 62-39 | 90-83 |
| Total Points | 101 | 173 |
| Winners | 22 | 38 |
| %Winners | 35% | 42% |
Both Walton and Bolt played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Walton and Bolt have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Walton played 9 games less than Bolt. Adam scored 22 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Bolt fired 38 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Walton | Bolt |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 4 |
| 1st in | 30/59 | 49/87 |
| %1st in | 51% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 22/30 | 38/49 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 21/29 | 16/38 |
| %2nd pts | 72% | 42% |
Walton made 4 aces . Bolt scored 4 aces . Walton won 73% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 72% of the points. On the other side, Bolt won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 42% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Walton | Bolt |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/9 |
| % Converted | 75% | 33% |
| Conceded | 4 | 7 |
| Saved | 4 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 57% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
Walton broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Australian pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 4 break points. The Australian broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.
| Walton | |||
| R1 McCabe |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 62-39 | 62-39 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/59 | 30/59 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 22/30 | 22/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/29 | 21/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 72% | 72% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Bolt | |||
| R1 Escoffier |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-61 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 90-83 | 90-83 | |
| Total points | 173 | 173 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 49/87 | 49/87 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 38/49 | 38/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/38 | 16/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLWLWLWLW Tennis Scores in Wuxi Challenger
- Jie CuiCui – Mattia BellucciBellucci (2-6 7-65 6-2) – See score progression
- Remy BertolaBertola – Maxime CressyCressy (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Omar JasikaJasika (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Fajing SunSun (4-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Yi ZhouZhou (7-66 7-65) – See score progression
- Adam WaltonWalton – James McCabeMcCabe (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Moez EcharguiEchargui – Yan BaiBai (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Linang XiaoXiao – Hanwen LiLi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Alex BoltBolt – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (7-61 7-63) – See score progression
- Philip SekulicSekulic – Li TuTu (5-7 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Alibek KachmazovKachmazov – Luke SavilleSaville (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltHolt – Arthur FeryFery (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Rigele TeTe – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-77 7-64 7-5) – See score progression
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Yi ZhouZhou (7-6(6) 7-6(5)) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Linang XiaoXiao – Hanwen LiLi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Omar JasikaJasika (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Max PurcellPurcell – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Moez EcharguiEchargui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Remy BertolaBertola – Rigele TeTe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Alex BoltBolt (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Linang XiaoXiao – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Jie CuiCui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
