Zachary Svajda and Nishesh Basavareddy will face off in the 2^nd round of the Knoxville Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 8:00 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nishesh Basavareddy who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nishesh Basavareddy is the pick to win this match.
Nishesh Basavareddy -> 1.54
Zachary Svajda -> 2.35

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Prediction and head to head Zachary Svajda vs. Nishesh Basavareddy

This will be the 3^rd time that Zachary Svajda and Nishesh Basavareddy clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Svajda (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they squared off, Svajda won 6-4 6-1 in the final in the Fairfield Challenger back in 2023.

Zachary Svajda

Ranked no. 167, the American got to the 2^nd round after beating Ethan Quinn 3-6 6-3 7-5.

In the 1^st round against Quinn, Svajda recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 7-5).During the match, Svajda scored less points (1) than Quinn. In fact, the world no. 167 won 94 points vs Quinn’s. That means that Svajda was more focused during the important points. Zachary was extremely aggressive to blast 48 winners.

Talking about the service games, Svajda scored 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Zachary Svajda was pretty efficient on serve to win 72% (48/67) of his 1st serve and 53% (20/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Svajda broke Quinn twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Svajda has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 57% of his matches (160-121). 2-4 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Svajda has a compiled14-20 match record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.

Zachary’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Indian Wells 2 Challenger.

Svajda has a composed 37-34 win-loss record in 2024, 2-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Knoxville Challenger

Nishesh Basavareddy

Ranked no. 170 (career-high), the American reached the 2^nd round after beating Colton Smith 6-2 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Nishesh had a good straight sets win against Smith (6-2 6-4). During the match Basavareddy scored 65 points vs Smith’s 49. Nishesh was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Basavareddy bagged 2 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Nishesh Basavareddy was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 77% (24/31) of his 1st serve and 81% (13/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Nishesh broke Smith 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).

His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Tiburon Challenger where he overcame Eliot Spizzirri in the final 6-1 6-1.

Nishesh has an overall 37-14 win-loss record in 2024, 8-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Knoxville Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Svajda	Basavareddy
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	30	18
Pts	94-95	65-49
Total Points	189	114
Winners	48	24
%Winners	51%	37%

Both Svajda and Basavareddy played 1 match. At the moment, Zachary Svajda surrendered 1 set while Nishesh Basavareddy hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Svajda has played 1 set more than Basavareddy (3 vs 2). Therefore, Svajda played 12 games more than Basavareddy. Svajda scored 48 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, Nishesh struck 24 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Svajda	Basavareddy
Aces	9	2
Avg per match	9	2
1st in	67/105	31/47
%1st in	64%	66%
1st pts	48/67	24/31
%1st pts	72%	77%
2nd pts	20/38	13/16
%2nd pts	53%	81%

Svajda recorded 9 aces . Basavareddy bagged 2 aces . Svajda won 72% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Basavareddy won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 81% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Svajda	Basavareddy
Won	2	3
Converted	2/3	3/10
% Converted	67%	30%
Conceded	6	1
Saved	5	1
% Saved	83%	100%
Times Broken	1	0

The American broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Zachary conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Nishesh broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. The American was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Svajda
	R1 Quinn	Total
Score	3-6 6-3 7-5
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	30	30
pts	94-95	94-95
Total points	189	189
Winners	48	48
%Winners	51%	51%
SERVE
Aces	9	9
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	67/105	67/105
% 1st in	64%	64%
1st pts	48/67	48/67
% 1st pts	72%	72%
2nd pts	20/38	20/38
% 2nd pts	53%	53%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/3	2/3
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	5/6	5
Saved %	83%	83%
Times Broken	1	1

Basavareddy
	R1 Smith	Total
Score	6-2 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	65-49	65-49
Total points	114	114
Winners	24	24
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	31/47	31/47
% 1st in	66%	66%
1st pts	24/31	24/31
% 1st pts	77%	77%
2nd pts	13/16	13/16
% 2nd pts	81%	81%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/10	3/10
Converted %	30%	30%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Knoxville Challenger

• Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Colton SmithSmith (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Micah BraswellBraswell – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Joel SchwaerzlerSchwaerzler (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Marcelo Demoliner/Christian HarrisonDemoliner/Christian Harrison – Juan Pablo Ficovich/Tennyson WhitingPablo Ficovich/Tennyson Whiting (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Learner TienTien – Max WiskandtWiskandt (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Murphy CassoneCassone – Stefan DostanicDostanic (6-3 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Karue SellSell – Shunsuke MitsuiMitsui (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Johannus MondayMonday – Nicolas MejiaMejia (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Kenta MiyoshiMiyoshi (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (3-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Patrick KypsonKypson – Alexander KotzenKotzen (3-6 6-3 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Bernard TomicTomic – Toby Alex KodatAlex Kodat (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Brandon HoltHolt – Adam WaltonWalton (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Denis KudlaKudla (6-4 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Jay ClarkeClarke – Dmitry PopkoPopko (6-3 2-6 7-6⁰) – See score progression
• Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Ethan QuinnQuinn (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Mark LajalLajal – Paul JubbJubb (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Colton SmithSmith (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Learner TienTien – Max WiskandtWiskandt (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Micah BraswellBraswell – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Patrick KypsonKypson – Alexander KotzenKotzen (3-6 6-3 7-6(7)) – See score progression
• Johannus MondayMonday – Nicolas MejiaMejia (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (3-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Joel SchwaerzlerSchwaerzler (6-4 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Bernard TomicTomic – Jay ClarkeClarke (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Patrick KypsonKypson – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Brandon HoltHolt – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (1-0) – H2H and prediction