James Duckworth and Ramkumar Ramanathan will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Taipei Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Duckworth who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, James Duckworth is the pick to win this match.
James Duckworth -> 1.28
Ramkumar Ramanathan -> 3.45

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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Ramkumar Ramanathan

This will be the 2^nd time that James Duckworth and Ramkumar Ramanathan fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Duckworth (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Duckworth won 7-6(8) 6-2 in the semifinal in the Pune Challenger back in 2019.

James Duckworth

Ranked no. 102, James got to the 2^nd round after defeating Mukund Sasikumar 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Duckworth had a good straight sets win against Kumar Mukund (6-3 6-4). During the match, Duckworth scored 67 points vs Kumar Mukund’s 50. Duckworth was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Regarding the service games, Duckworth fired 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, James Duckworth was quite effective on serve to win 81% (22/27) of his 1st serve and 59% (17/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke Kumar Mukund 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Duckworth has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (290-187). 14-7 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Duckworth has an overall 209-116 match record in the last years on hard.

James’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger.

Duckworth has a compiled 21-11 win-loss record in 2024, 14-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Taipei Challenger

Ramkumar Ramanathan

Ranked no. 358, Ramkumar got to the 2^nd round after defeating Bang Shuo Yin 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Ramkumar had a good straight sets win against Shuo Yin (6-4 6-4). During the match Ramanathan scored 73 points vs Shuo Yin’s 60. The Indian was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Ramanathan struck 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ramkumar Ramanathan was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 71% (32/45) of his 1st serve and 65% (17/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Indian broke Shuo Yin twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

The Indian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 New Delhi and M15 Chandigarh.

Ramkumar has a compiled 17-9 win-loss record in 2024, 16-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Duckworth	Ramanathan
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	20
Pts	67-50	73-60
Total Points	117	133
Winners	22	32
%Winners	33%	44%

Both Duckworth and Ramanathan played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Duckworth and Ramanathan have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Duckworth played 1 game less than Ramanathan. James scored 22 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Ramkumar blasted 32 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Duckworth	Ramanathan
Aces	6	5
Avg per match	6	5
1st in	27/56	45/71
%1st in	48%	63%
1st pts	22/27	32/45
%1st pts	81%	71%
2nd pts	17/29	17/26
%2nd pts	59%	65%

Duckworth fired 6 aces . Ramanathan made 5 aces . Duckworth won 81% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Ramanathan won 71% 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	Duckworth	Ramanathan
Won	4	2
Converted	4/8	2/3
% Converted	50%	67%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	4	5
% Saved	80%	100%
Times Broken	1	0

The Australian broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. James surrendered his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Ramkumar broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Ramkumar was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.

Duckworth
	R1 Kumar Mukund	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	67-50	67-50
Total points	117	117
Winners	22	22
%Winners	33%	33%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	27/56	27/56
% 1st in	48%	48%
1st pts	22/27	22/27
% 1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	17/29	17/29
% 2nd pts	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/8	4/8
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	4/5	4
Saved %	80%	80%
Times Broken	1	1

Ramanathan
	R1 Shuo	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	73-60	73-60
Total points	133	133
Winners	32	32
%Winners	44%	44%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	45/71	45/71
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	32/45	32/45
% 1st pts	71%	71%
2nd pts	17/26	17/26
% 2nd pts	65%	65%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/3	2/3
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	5/5	5
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Taipei Challenger

• Adam WaltonWalton – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (7-6⁵ 6-0) – See score progression
• Max PurcellPurcell – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-7³ 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Yunseong ChungChung (6-4 7-6⁰) – See score progression
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Bang Shuo YinShuo Yin (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Blake EllisEllis – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Brandon HoltHolt (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Remy BertolaBertola – Ray HoHo (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Moez EcharguiEchargui (7-6⁷ 6-2) – See score progression
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – James McCabeMcCabe (6-1 4-6 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Omar JasikaJasika (6-4 7-6⁸) – See score progression
• Arthur FeryFery – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Philip SekulicSekulic (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-6² 6-3) – See score progression
• Max PurcellPurcell – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-7(3) 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Remy BertolaBertola – Ray HoHo (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 7-6(4)) – See score progression
• Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Omar JasikaJasika (6-4 7-6(8)) – See score progression
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-6(2) 6-3) – See score progression
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – James McCabeMcCabe (6-1 4-6 7-6(4)) – See score progression
• Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Brandon HoltHolt (6-1 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (5-1) – H2H and prediction
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Adam WaltonWalton (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Li TuTu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Max PurcellPurcell – Remy BertolaBertola (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Blake EllisEllis – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-2) – H2H and prediction