Frances Tiafoe and Adam Walton will face off in the 2nd round of the US Men’s Clay Court Championship for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 6:00 pm on STADIUM COURT . In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Frances Tiafoe who should win in 2 sets.
Frances Tiafoe -> 1.31
Adam Walton -> 3.45
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Prediction and head to head Frances Tiafoe vs. Adam Walton
This will be the 2nd time that Frances Tiafoe and Adam Walton square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Tiafoe (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Tiafoe won 7-6(5) 6-3 in the 1st round in Brisbane back in 2024.
Highlights Frances Tiafoe vs Adam Walton – Brisbane 31-December-2024
Frances Tiafoe
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6-6 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-27 | 21-13 | 5-6 | 4-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-21 | 21-10 | 8-4 | 4-5 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-25 | 19-11 | 8-6 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-27 | 19-13 | 4-7 | 10-4 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 17, the American will start his run in Houston after he played his last match in Miami where he lost 7-6(11) 5-7 6-2 to Fils in the 3rd round on the 24th of March.
The American has an aggregate 6-6 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Tiafoe has an overall 380-266 record. He has a positive 109-65 record on clay.
Previously in Houston
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2023. See his history.
Adam Walton
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19-10 | 18-10 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 54-37 | 46-27 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-30 | 53-26 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-12 | 41-10 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 85 (career-high), the Australian reached the 2nd round after beating Michael Mmoh 6-3 7-6(5).
In the 1st round, Adam had a good straight sets win against Mmoh (6-3 7-65
). During the match Walton scored 73 points vs Mmoh’s 59. Walton was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.About the serving games, Walton fired 8 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Adam Walton lost the serve 4 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Walton put 63% of his first serves in, winning 78% (35/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 23% (6/26) on the 2nd serve. Adam was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Mmoh 5 times.
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Brisbane 2 Challenger where he defeated Jason Murray Kubler in the final 7-6(6) 7-6(4).
Adam has a composed 19-10 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Houston
Adam has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Houston
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Corentin DenollyDenolly (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Colton SmithSmith – Ethan QuinnQuinn (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (3-6 6-4 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tommy PaulPaul – Cristian GarinGarin (2-6 6-2 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (4-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tommy PaulPaul – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-1) – H2H and prediction