Alex Michelsen and Sumit Nagal will play each other in the 1st round of the ASB Classic for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 6:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Michelsen who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alex Michelsen is the pick to win this match.
Alex Michelsen -> 1.23
Sumit Nagal -> 4.2
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Prediction and head to head Alex Michelsen vs. Sumit Nagal
There is no head to head record between Alex Michelsen and Sumit Nagal since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Alex Michelsen
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 45-34 | 26-14 | 4-9 | 8-5 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 61-27 | 30-13 | 4-3 | 19-7 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-10 | 14-8 | 0-1 | 9-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 41 (career-high), Alex will start his run in Auckland after he played his last match in Brisbane where he lost 7-5 6-3 to Thompson in the 2nd round on the 1st of January.
Alex has an aggregate 1-1 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Michelsen has an overall 130-72 record. He has a positive 71-36 record on hard.
Previously in Auckland
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.
Sumit Nagal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-29 | 15-13 | 16-11 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 9-8 | 32-17 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-18 | 0-1 | 16-17 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-26 | 1-4 | 22-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 98, Nagal got to the 1st round after defeating Alexander Klintcharov 1-6 6-3 6-1 and Adrian Mannarino 7-6(5) 6-3.
In the qualifications, Sumit had a good straight sets win against Mannarino (7-65 6-3). During the match Nagal scored 74 points vs Mannarino’s 66. The Indian was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Nagal scored 2 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Sumit Nagal lost the serve 3 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Nagal put 64% of his first serves in, winning 70% (33/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (12/27) on the 2nd serve. Nagal broke Mannarino 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Indian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Nagal has a composed 2-1 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Auckland
Nagal has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
LW
WWL Tennis Scores in Auckland
- Luca NardiNardi – Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta (7-5 6-72 6-2) – See score progression
- Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Sumit NagalNagal – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Zizou BergsBergs – Francisco ComesanaComesana (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
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- Alexandre MullerMuller – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mariano NavoneNavone – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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