Murphy Cassone and Juan Carlos Manuel Aguilar will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Cleveland Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Murphy Cassone who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Murphy Cassone is the pick to win this match.
Murphy Cassone -> 1.285
Juan Carlos Manuel Aguilar -> 3.36

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Prediction and head to head Murphy Cassone vs. Juan Carlos Manuel Aguilar

There is no head to head record between Murphy Cassone and Juan Carlos Manuel Aguilar since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Murphy Cassone

Ranked no. 270 (career-high), the American reached the 2^nd round after defeating Federico Agustin Gomez 7-6(5) 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Cassone had a good straight sets win against Agustin Gomez (7-6⁵ 6-4). During the match, Cassone scored 77 points vs Agustin Gomez’s 65. Cassone was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Regarding the service games, Cassone fired 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Murphy Cassone was pretty efficient on serve to win 88% (35/40) of his 1st serve and 59% (16/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Agustin Gomez once.

Cassone has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 62% of his matches (74-45). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Cassone has a compiled28-11 match record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.

Cassone’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger and the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger.

Cassone has a compiled 8-3 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Cleveland Challenger

Juan Carlos Manuel Aguilar

Ranked no. 505 (career-high), Juan reached the 2^nd round after defeating Jackson Ross 6-4 6-2.

In the 1^st round, The Canadian had a good straight sets win against Ross (6-4 6-2). During the match Carlos Manuel Aguilar scored 75 points vs Ross’s 57. Carlos Manuel Aguilar was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Carlos Manuel Aguilar blasted 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Juan Carlos Manuel Aguilar was quite efficient on serve to win 73% (27/37) of his 1st serve and 55% (16/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Carlos Manuel Aguilar broke Ross 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Carlos Manuel Aguilar’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Kingston.

Carlos Manuel Aguilar has a composed 6-1 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Cleveland Challenger

Carlos Manuel Aguilar has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Cassone	Carlos Manuel Aguilar
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	23	18
Pts	77-65	75-57
Total Points	142	132
Winners	35	27
%Winners	45%	36%

Both Cassone and Carlos Manuel Aguilar played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Cassone and Carlos Manuel Aguilar have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Cassone played 5 games more than Carlos Manuel Aguilar. Murphy scored 35 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Juan fired 27 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Cassone	Carlos Manuel Aguilar
Aces	5	6
Avg per match	5	6
1st in	40/67	37/66
%1st in	60%	56%
1st pts	35/40	27/37
%1st pts	88%	73%
2nd pts	16/27	16/29
%2nd pts	59%	55%

Cassone fired 5 aces . Carlos Manuel Aguilar managed to score 6 aces . Cassone won 88% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Carlos Manuel Aguilar won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Cassone	Carlos Manuel Aguilar
Won	1	4
Converted	1/1	4/9
% Converted	100%	44%
Conceded	1	6
Saved	1	5
% Saved	100%	83%
Times Broken	0	1

The American broke his opponent once with a 100% conversion rate. Cassone pretty effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Canadian broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Canadian conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.

Cassone
	R1 Agustin	Total
Score	7-65 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	23	23
pts	77-65	77-65
Total points	142	142
Winners	35	35
%Winners	45%	45%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	40/67	40/67
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	35/40	35/40
% 1st pts	88%	88%
2nd pts	16/27	16/27
% 2nd pts	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	1	1
Converted	1/1	1/1
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Carlos Manuel Aguilar
	R1 Ross	Total
Score	6-4 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	75-57	75-57
Total points	132	132
Winners	27	27
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	37/66	37/66
% 1st in	56%	56%
1st pts	27/37	27/37
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	16/29	16/29
% 2nd pts	55%	55%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/9	4/9
Converted %	44%	44%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	5/6	5
Saved %	83%	83%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Cleveland Challenger

• Kaylan BigunBigun – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-3 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Colton SmithSmith – Ethan QuinnQuinn (1-6 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Filip PieczonkaPieczonka (6-3 3-6 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Juan Carlos Manuel AguilarCarlos Manuel Aguilar – Jackson RossRoss (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Michael MmohMmoh – Alex RybakovRybakov (6-7³ 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Trey HilderbrandHilderbrand – Nathan PonwithPonwith (7-6⁵ 4-6 6-0) – See score progression
• Antoine GhibaudoGhibaudo – Tristan MccormickMccormick (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Stefan KozlovKozlov – Micah BraswellBraswell (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Tyler ZinkZink – Aidan MayoMayo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Murphy CassoneCassone – Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Brandon HoltHolt – Kalin IvanovskiIvanovski (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Trey HilderbrandHilderbrand – Nathan PonwithPonwith (7-6(5) 4-6 6-0) – See score progression
• Michael MmohMmoh – Alex RybakovRybakov (6-7(3) 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Karue SellSell – Alafia AyeniAyeni (6-3 7-6(5)) – See score progression
• Colton SmithSmith – Ethan QuinnQuinn (1-6 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Jeff WolfWolf – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Antoine GhibaudoGhibaudo – Tristan MccormickMccormick (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Stefan KozlovKozlov – Micah BraswellBraswell (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Kaylan BigunBigun – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-3 7-6(7)) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Karue SellSell – Alafia AyeniAyeni (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Stefan KozlovKozlov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Michael MmohMmoh – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jeff WolfWolf – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ryan SeggermanSeggerman – Stefan DostanicDostanic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Trey HilderbrandHilderbrand (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tyler ZinkZink – Brandon HoltHolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction