Mukund Sasikumar and Thanapet Chanta will face off in the 1st round of the Taipei 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am 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 Mukund Sasikumar who should win in 3 sets.
Mukund Sasikumar -> 1.47
Thanapet Chanta -> 2.53
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Prediction and head to head Mukund Sasikumar vs. Thanapet Chanta
There is no head to head record between Mukund Sasikumar and Thanapet Chanta since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Mukund Sasikumar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 40-32 | 38-31 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-31 | 21-25 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-35 | 33-21 | 6-7 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-32 | 25-24 | 2-3 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-9 | 4-4 | 0-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 400, Kumar Mukund will start his run in the Taipei 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Shenzhen Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Bai in the 2nd round on the 16th of October.
Kumar Mukund has a composed 37-29 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
Kumar Mukund’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Chennai,M15 Tianjin and M25 Nakhon Si Thammarat.
Talking about his overall career, Kumar Mukund has an overall 364-313 record. He has a negative 18-25 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Taipei 2 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2024. See his history.
Thanapet Chanta
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-18 | 22-16 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-16 | 20-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-12 | 16-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 687, the Thai reached the 1st round after defeating Julien De Cuyper 6-3 4-6 6-3 and Reese Stalder 7-6(4) 4-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Thai defeated Stalder (7-64 4-6 6-3). During the match Chanta scored 105 points vs Stalder’s 100. The Thai was pretty aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Chanta scored 2 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Overall, Thanapet Chanta was extremely effective on serve to win 74% (40/54) of his 1st serve and 51% (23/45) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. The Thai broke Stalder 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Chanta started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Thanapet’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Nakhon Si Thammarat.
Chanta has a compiled 25-16 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Taipei 2 Challenger
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Hyeon ChungChung (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kokoro IsomuraIsomura – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (7-63 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Julian OcleppoOcleppo (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime JanvierJanvier – Ray HoHo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaito UesugiUesugi – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alafia AyeniAyeni – Taro DanielDaniel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Benoit PairePaire (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Thanapet ChantaChanta – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (0-0) – H2H and prediction