Andrej Martin and Alafia Ayeni will play each other in the qualifications of the Kigali 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 am on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Andrej Martin who should win in 2 sets.
Andrej Martin -> 1.25
Alafia Ayeni -> 3.64
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Prediction and head to head Andrej Martin vs. Alafia Ayeni
There is no head to head record between Andrej Martin and Alafia Ayeni since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Andrej Martin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28-21 | 0-0 | 28-21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 40-13 | 1-1 | 39-10 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-20 | 0-1 | 9-18 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-35 | 0-3 | 40-31 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 433, Andrej got to the qualifications after defeating Maik Steiner 4-6 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications against Steiner, The Slovakian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-4). During the match, Martin scored 85 points vs Steiner’s 68. Martin was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Regarding the service games, Martin scored 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Andrej Martin was extremely effective on serve to win 81% (30/37) of his 1st serve and 78% (28/36) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Martin broke Steiner twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).
Martin has good match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (249-195). 2-1 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Martin has a compiled 240-161 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Andrej has a composed 2-1 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kigali 1 Challenger
The Slovakian has never competed in this tournament before.
Alafia Ayeni
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18-21 | 9-9 | 6-7 | 1-4 | 2-1 | 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. 487, the American got to the qualifications after defeating Joshua Muhire 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Muhire (6-1 6-1). During the match Ayeni scored 63 points vs Muhire’s 32. Alafia was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Ayeni struck 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Alafia Ayeni was extremely effective on serve to win 87% (20/23) of his 1st serve and 75% (9/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alafia broke Muhire 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).
Ayeni has a compiled 1-2 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kigali 1 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Martin | Ayeni |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 29 | 14 |
| Pts | 85-68 | 63-32 |
| Total Points | 153 | 95 |
| Winners | 30 | 20 |
| %Winners | 35% | 32% |
Both Martin and Ayeni played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Andrej Martin dropped 1 set while Alafia Ayeni hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Martin has played 1 set more than Ayeni (3 vs 2). Therefore, Martin played 15 games more than Ayeni. The Slovakian scored 30 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Alafia bagged 20 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Martin | Ayeni |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 4 |
| 1st in | 37/73 | 23/35 |
| %1st in | 51% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 30/37 | 20/23 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 87% |
| 2nd pts | 28/36 | 9/12 |
| %2nd pts | 78% | 75% |
Martin bagged 6 aces . Ayeni made 4 aces . Martin won 81% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 78% of the points. On the other side, Ayeni won 87% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 75% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Martin | Ayeni |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 5 |
| Converted | 2/9 | 5/14 |
| % Converted | 22% | 36% |
| Conceded | 4 | 2 |
| Saved | 3 | 2 |
| % Saved | 75% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Andrej broke his opponent twice with a 22% conversion rate. The Slovakian lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Ayeni broke his opponent 5 times with a 36% conversion rate. Alafia was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Martin | |||
| Q1 Steiner | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 29 | |
| pts | 85-68 | 85-68 | |
| Total points | 153 | 153 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 37/73 | 37/73 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 30/37 | 30/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 28/36 | 28/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 78% | 78% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/9 | 2/9 | |
| Converted % | 22% | 22% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Ayeni | |||
| Q1 Muhire | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 63-32 | 63-32 | |
| Total points | 95 | 95 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 23/35 | 23/35 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 20/23 | 20/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 87% | 87% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/12 | 9/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/14 | 5/14 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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