Omar Jasika and Blake Ellis will face off in the 2^nd round of the Sydney Challenger for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 5. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Omar Jasika who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Omar Jasika is the pick to win this match.
Omar Jasika -> 1.31
Blake Ellis -> 3.2

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Prediction and head to head Omar Jasika vs. Blake Ellis

This will be the 4^th time that Omar Jasika and Blake Ellis face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Jasika (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Jasika won 4-6 6-1 6-4 in the 1^st round in M25 Traralgon back in 2022.

Omar Jasika

Ranked no. 187 (career-high), Omar reached the 2^nd round after beating Takuya Kumasaka 6-2 5-7 7-5.

In the 1^st round, Omar defeated Kumasaka (6-2 5-7 7-5). During the match, Jasika scored 116 points vs Kumasaka’s 101. Omar was quite aggressive to blast 44 winners.

Talking about the service games, Jasika blasted 4 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Omar Jasika lost the serve 6 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Jasika put 67% of his first serves in, winning 62% (44/71) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (16/35) on the 2nd serve. Jasika broke Kumasaka 8 times after converting 50% of his break points (8/16).

Jasika has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 65% of his matches (251-135). 48-12 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Jasika has an aggregate 213-99 record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Burnie 1 Challenger where he beat Alex Bolt in the final 6-2 6-7(2) 6-3.

Omar has a composed 51-23 win-loss record in 2024, 48-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sydney Challenger

Blake Ellis

Ranked no. 342 (career-high), Blake reached the 2^nd round after defeating James McCabe 6-7(2) 7-5 6-3.

In the 1^st round against McCabe, Ellis recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7² 7-5 6-3). During the match Ellis scored 109 points vs McCabe’s 102. The Australian was very aggressive to blast 49 winners.

Talking about serving, Ellis blasted 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Blake Ellis lost the serve 3 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Ellis put 62% of his first serves in, winning 67% (49/73) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (22/44) on the 2nd serve. Blake broke McCabe 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).

Ellis’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25+H Ajaccio,M25 Taipei and M25 Cairns.

Blake has an overall 42-28 win-loss record in 2024, 34-24 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sydney Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2022 and 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Jasika	Ellis
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	32	34
Pts	116-101	109-102
Total Points	217	211
Winners	44	49
%Winners	38%	45%

Both Jasika and Ellis played 1 match. Both players lost a set in the event. Omar Jasika dropped 1 set, while Blake Ellis surrendered 1 set. Talking about their workload, Jasika and Ellis have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Jasika played 2 games less than Ellis. Omar scored 44 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian fired 49 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Jasika	Ellis
Aces	4	7
Avg per match	4	7
1st in	71/106	73/117
%1st in	67%	62%
1st pts	44/71	49/73
%1st pts	62%	67%
2nd pts	16/35	22/44
%2nd pts	46%	50%

Jasika made 4 aces . Ellis scored 7 aces . Jasika won 62% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points. On the other side, Ellis won 67% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Jasika	Ellis
Won	8	5
Converted	8/16	5/9
% Converted	50%	56%
Conceded	12	11
Saved	6	8
% Saved	50%	73%
Times Broken	6	3

Jasika broke his opponent 8 times with a 50% conversion rate. Jasika dropped his serve 6 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Ellis broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Ellis conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded.

Jasika
	R1 Kumasaka	Total
Score	6-2 5-7 7-5
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	32	32
pts	116-101	116-101
Total points	217	217
Winners	44	44
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	8	8
1st in	71/106	71/106
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	44/71	44/71
% 1st pts	62%	62%
2nd pts	16/35	16/35
% 2nd pts	46%	46%
Breaks
Won	8	8
Converted	8/16	8/16
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	12	12
Saved	6/12	6
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	6	6

Ellis
	R1 McCabe	Total
Score	6-72 7-5 6-3
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	34	34
pts	109-102	109-102
Total points	211	211
Winners	49	49
%Winners	45%	45%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	73/117	73/117
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	49/73	49/73
% 1st pts	67%	67%
2nd pts	22/44	22/44
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/9	5/9
Converted %	56%	56%
Conceded	11	11
Saved	8/11	8
Saved %	73%	73%
Times Broken	3	3

Tennis Scores in Sydney Challenger

• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Jake DelaneyDelaney (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (7-6⁵ 6-7⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Aleksandre BakshiBakshi (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Hayden JonesJones (6-3 7-6³) – See score progression
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Jacob BradshawBradshaw (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Ajeet RaiRai – Alex BoltBolt (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Christian LangmoLangmo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Blake MottMott – Seita WatanabeWatanabe (7-5 6-7⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Edward WinterWinter (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Omar JasikaJasika – Takuya KumasakaKumasaka (6-2 5-7 7-5) – See score progression
• Blake EllisEllis – James McCabeMcCabe (6-7² 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Philip SekulicSekulic – Pavle MarinkovMarinkov (6-2 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
• Tibo ColsonColson – Shintaro ImaiImai (6-3 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Ajeet RaiRai – Alex BoltBolt (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Aleksandre BakshiBakshi (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Blake MottMott – Seita WatanabeWatanabe (7-5 6-7(5) 6-3) – See score progression
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Jacob BradshawBradshaw (6-3 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Blake MottMott – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Omar JasikaJasika – Blake EllisEllis (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ajeet RaiRai – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Emile HuddHudd – Dane SweenySweeny (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tibo ColsonColson – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction