Mark Lajal and Nishesh Basavareddy will play each other in the 1st round of the Chicago Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. 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 Nishesh Basavareddy who should win in 3 sets.
Nishesh Basavareddy -> 1.81
Mark Lajal -> 1.93
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Prediction and head to head Mark Lajal vs. Nishesh Basavareddy
There is no head to head record between Mark Lajal and Nishesh Basavareddy since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Mark Lajal
19 - 19win/loss
249
191
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-19 | 12-10 | 0-3 | 2-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 25-16 | 5-2 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-24 | 35-12 | 2-6 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-7 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 249, Mark reached the 1st round after defeating Bruno Kuzuhara 6-3 7-6(1) and Rio Noguchi 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Estonian had a good straight sets win against Noguchi (6-3 6-2). During the match, Lajal scored 62 points vs Noguchi’s 43. Lajal was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Lajal scored 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Mark Lajal was exceptionally effective on serve to win 84% (26/31) of his 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Estonian broke Noguchi 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Lajal started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 59% of the points he played.
Lajal has a solid match record in the last 4 years having won 60% of his matches (116-78). 12-9 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Lajal has a compiled77-41 match record in the last 4 years on hard.
Mark’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger.
Lajal has a composed 19-18 win-loss record in 2024, 12-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Chicago Challenger
Nishesh Basavareddy
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-7 | 14-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 12-6 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 2-5 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 303 (career-high), Basavareddy will start his run in the Chicago Challenger after he played his last match in the Granby Challenger where he lost 1-6 7-6(7) 1-1 ret. to Kuzuhara in the qualifications on the 15th of July.
The American has a composed 13-6 win-loss record in 2024, 13-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Nishesh’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Calabasas and the Bloomfield Hills Challenger.
In terms of his career, Nishesh has an overall 27-17 record. He has a positive 24-12 record on hard.
Previously in the Chicago Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Chicago Challenger
- Philip SekulicSekulic – Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Learner TienTien – Benjamin BonziBonzi (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Charles BroomBroom – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-74 6-2 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Joao FonsecaFonseca – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Alex BoltBolt (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Arthur GeaGea (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Charles BroomBroom (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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