Karue Sell and Alafia Ayeni will face off in the 1st round of the Cleveland Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 8:00 pm on COURT 4. 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 Karue Sell who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karue Sell is the pick to win this match.
Karue Sell -> 1.2
Alafia Ayeni -> 4.15
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Prediction and head to head Karue Sell vs. Alafia Ayeni
This will be the 2nd time that Karue Sell and Alafia Ayeni face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Sell (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Sell won 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in USA F38 (Columbus) back in 2017.
Karue Sell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4-7 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 56-20 | 24-11 | 21-6 | 11-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 12-3 | 11-2 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 279, Sell will start his run in the Cleveland Challenger after he played his last match in the Oeiras 2 Challenger where he lost 6-3 5-7 6-2 to Ovcharenko in the qualifications on the 13th of January.
Karue has an aggregate 2-2 win-loss record in 2025, 2-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Sell has an overall 142-60 record. He has a positive 21-11 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Cleveland Challenger
Sell has never competed in this tournament before.
Alafia Ayeni
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 4-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 36-34 | 30-24 | 6-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-22 | 17-13 | 1-3 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-19 | 22-15 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-20 | 12-10 | 3-2 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 480, Ayeni will start his run in the Cleveland Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Ithaca where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Nefve in the 1st round on the 8th of January.
Alafia has a composed 0-1 win-loss record in 2025, 0-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, Ayeni has an overall 178-164 record. He has a positive 40-32 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Cleveland Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tyler ZinkZink – Aidan MayoMayo (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon HoltBrandon – Kalin IvanovskiKalin (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Karue SellSell – Alafia AyeniAyeni (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ryan SeggermanSeggerman – Stefan DostanicDostanic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Micah BraswellBraswell – Stefan KozlovKozlov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
