Robert Strombachs and Alafia Ayeni will square off in the 1st round of the Kachreti Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alafia Ayeni who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alafia Ayeni is the pick to win this match.
Alafia Ayeni -> 1.85
Robert Strombachs -> 1.89

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Prediction and head to head Robert Strombachs vs. Alafia Ayeni

This will be the 2nd time that Robert Strombachs and Alafia Ayeni face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Ayeni (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Ayeni won 4-6 6-4 7-6(1) in the qualifications in the Shanghai Challenger back in 2023.

Robert Strombachs

Robert Strombachs

12 - 13win/loss

Hard
2-2
I Hard
5-6
Clay
3-4
Carpet
2-1
Rank
453
High
334
LLLWLWLLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 14-17 3-3 4-7 5-6 0-0 2-1
2023 54-33 44-21 6-8 2-3 0-0 2-1
2022 68-30 47-21 15-4 6-4 0-1 0-0
2021 21-26 18-15 1-3 1-6 0-1 1-1
2020 13-11 6-5 3-2 1-1 0-0 3-3

Ranked no. 405, the German will start his run in the Kachreti Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Kachreti where he lost 6-4 4-6 7-6(4) to Blanch in the 1st round on the 15th of May.

Robert has a compiled 12-13 win-loss record in 2024, 2-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Strombachs has an overall 242-159 record. He has a positive 157-85 record on hard.

Previously in the Kachreti Challenger

Robert has never competed in this tournament before.

Kachreti Challenger
Strombachs's Record

Alafia Ayeni

Alafia Ayeni

12 - 16win/loss

Hard
6-8
I Hard
0-1
Clay
6-7
Rank
491
High
395
LWWLWWWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 19-20 13-12 6-7 0-1 0-0 0-0
2023 23-22 17-13 1-3 5-4 0-2 0-0
2022 24-19 22-15 0-0 2-4 0-0 0-0
2021 27-20 12-10 3-2 11-7 0-0 1-1
2020 5-7 3-3 0-1 1-1 0-0 1-2

Ranked no. 523, Ayeni reached the 1st round after defeating Aleksandre Shvangiradze 6-1 6-2 and Aleksandr Lobanov 6-3 7-63.

In the qualifications, Alafia had a good straight sets win against Lobanov (6-3 7-63). During the match Ayeni scored 74 points vs Lobanov’s 67. Alafia was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Talking about serving, Ayeni managed to score 17 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Alafia Ayeni lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Ayeni put 64% of his first serves in, winning 78% (38/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (11/27) on the 2nd serve. Ayeni broke Lobanov 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Ayeni started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

The American has an overall 12-16 win-loss record in 2024, 6-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Kachreti Challenger
Ayeni's Record

Tennis Scores in Kachreti Challenger

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