Brandon Holt and James Kent Trotter will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Charlottesville Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 9. 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 Brandon Holt who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Brandon Holt is the pick to win this match.
Brandon Holt -> 1.83
James Kent Trotter -> 1.89

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Prediction and head to head Brandon Holt vs. James Kent Trotter

This will be the 2^nd time that Brandon Holt and James Kent Trotter play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kent (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they fought against each other, Kent won 6-2 7-6(3)

in the final in the Tyler Challenger back in June 2024.

Brandon Holt

Ranked no. 194, Brandon reached the 2^nd round after defeating Alex Rybakov 7-5 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Holt had a good straight sets win against Rybakov (7-5 6-4). During the match, Holt scored 82 points vs Rybakov’s 63. Brandon was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about the service games, Holt bagged 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Brandon Holt was very effective on serve to win 76% (32/42) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The American broke Rybakov 4 times after converting 27% of his break points (4/15).

Holt has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 60% of his matches (173-113). 3-3 on indoor hard courts in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Holt has a compiled13-11 match record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.

Brandon’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Indian Wells 1 Challenger,M25 Bakersfield and the Tyler Challenger.

Holt has an aggregate 41-28 win-loss record in 2024, 3-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Charlottesville Challenger

James Kent Trotter

Ranked no. 251 (career-high), the Japanese reached the 2^nd round after beating Mitchell Krueger 7-5 7-6(6).

In the 1^st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Krueger (7-5 7-6⁶). During the match Kent scored 79 points vs Krueger’s 71. James was very aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Talking about serving, Kent fired 13 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, James Kent Trotter was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 90% (36/40) of his 1st serve and 52% (17/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Krueger twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Tyler Challenger where he beat Brandon Holt in the final 6-2 7-6(3).

The Japanese has an aggregate 32-21 win-loss record in 2024, 12-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Charlottesville Challenger

The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Holt	Kent
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	25
Pts	82-63	79-71
Total Points	145	150
Winners	32	36
%Winners	39%	46%

Both Holt and Kent played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Holt and Kent have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Holt played 3 games less than Kent. The American scored 32 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese blasted 36 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Holt	Kent
Aces	2	13
Avg per match	2	13
1st in	42/61	40/73
%1st in	69%	55%
1st pts	32/42	36/40
%1st pts	76%	90%
2nd pts	11/19	17/33
%2nd pts	58%	52%

Holt made 2 aces . Kent fired 13 aces . Holt won 76% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Kent won 90% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Holt	Kent
Won	4	2
Converted	4/15	2/6
% Converted	27%	33%
Conceded	2	6
Saved	0	5
% Saved	0%	83%
Times Broken	2	1

Holt broke his opponent 4 times with a 27% conversion rate. Holt conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. James conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.

Holt
	R1 Rybakov	Total
Score	7-5 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	82-63	82-63
Total points	145	145
Winners	32	32
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	42/61	42/61
% 1st in	69%	69%
1st pts	32/42	32/42
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	11/19	11/19
% 2nd pts	58%	58%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/15	4/15
Converted %	27%	27%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	0/2	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	2	2

Kent
	R1 Krueger	Total
Score	7-5 7-66
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	25	25
pts	79-71	79-71
Total points	150	150
Winners	36	36
%Winners	46%	46%
SERVE
Aces	13	13
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	40/73	40/73
% 1st in	55%	55%
1st pts	36/40	36/40
% 1st pts	90%	90%
2nd pts	17/33	17/33
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/6	2/6
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	5/6	5
Saved %	83%	83%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Charlottesville Challenger

• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Brandon HoltHolt – Alex RybakovRybakov (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Dylan DietrichDietrich – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Paul JubbJubb – Toby Alex KodatAlex Kodat (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Patrick ZahrajZahraj – Christopher EubanksEubanks (6-1 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Maks KasnikowskiKasnikowski – Kyle EdmundEdmund (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Colton SmithSmith – Andre IlaganIlagan (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Ethan QuinnQuinn – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (6-1 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Mark LajalLajal – Henry SearleSearle (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Learner TienTien – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (2-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – Denis KudlaKudla (0-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Patrick KypsonKypson – Bernard TomicTomic (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Dmitry PopkoPopko (5-7 6-1 7-6¹) – See score progression
• James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (7-5 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Patrick ZahrajZahraj – Christopher EubanksEubanks (6-1 7-6(7)) – See score progression
• Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Paul JubbJubb – Toby Alex KodatAlex Kodat (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Dylan DietrichDietrich – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (6-3 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Reilly OpelkaOpelka – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Borna GojoGojo – Govind NandaNanda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Patrick KypsonKypson – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Brandon HoltHolt – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Patrick ZahrajZahraj – (0-0) – H2H and prediction