Brandon Holt and Murphy Cassone will square off in the 2nd round of the Birmingham Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Brandon Holt who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Brandon Holt is the pick to win this match.
Brandon Holt -> 1.666
Murphy Cassone -> 2.11
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Prediction and head to head Brandon Holt vs. Murphy Cassone
This will be the 3rd time that Brandon Holt and Murphy Cassone face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Holt (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they fought against each other, Holt won 7-6(5) 7-5 in the 1st round in the Fairfield Challenger back in 2024.
Brandon Holt
33 - 14win/loss
104
101
LLLWWWLLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-17 | 29-11 | 0-2 | 3-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-31 | 37-24 | 1-1 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-24 | 14-16 | 1-2 | 7-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 52-21 | 48-17 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 3-6 | 2-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 101 (career-high), Brandon reached the 2nd round after beating James Duckworth 6-2 7-5.
In the 1st round, Holt had a good straight sets win against Duckworth (6-2 7-5). During the match, Holt scored 73 points vs Duckworth’s 61. Holt was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about the service games, Holt blasted 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Brandon Holt lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Holt put 64% of his first serves in, winning 71% (35/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (12/27) on the 2nd serve. Brandon broke Duckworth 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Holt has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (208-130). 1-0 on grass in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Holt has a compiled 2-2 match record in the last years on grass.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger where he overcame Vit Kopriva in the final 6-3 6-2 and the Bengaluru Challenger where he defeated Shintaro Mochizuki in the final 6-3 6-3.
The American has a compiled 33-14 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Birmingham Challenger
Brandon has never competed in this tournament before.
Murphy Cassone
22 - 13win/loss
192
192
LWWWLWWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25-15 | 9-6 | 2-4 | 8-3 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-18 | 16-13 | 0-0 | 14-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 6-8 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 20-9 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 207, Cassone reached the 2nd round after beating Stuart Parker 6-3 6-1, Patrick Zahraj 6-4 6-3 and Daniel Evans 7-6(5) 7-6(5).
In the 1st round, Cassone had a good straight sets win against Evans (7-65 7-65). During the match Cassone scored 95 points vs Evans’s 89. Murphy was quite aggressive to blast 50 winners.
About the serving games, Cassone managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Murphy Cassone was quite efficient on serve to win 71% (50/70) of his 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Evans once after converting 14% of his break points (1/7).
Murphy’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger,the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger and the Lugano Challenger.
Cassone has a composed 22-13 win-loss record in 2025, 3-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Holt | Cassone |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 61 |
| Pts | 73-61 | 217-179 |
| Total Points | 134 | 396 |
| Winners | 35 | 107 |
| %Winners | 48% | 49% |
Holt played 1 match while Cassone competed in 3 matches. Cassone started his run from the qualifications while Holt had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Holt has played 4 set(s) less than Cassone (2 vs 6). Therefore, Holt played 41 games less than Cassone. Brandon scored 35 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Cassone bagged 107 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Holt | Cassone |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 16 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 5.3 |
| 1st in | 49/76 | 145/199 |
| %1st in | 64% | 73% |
| 1st pts | 35/49 | 107/145 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 12/27 | 30/54 |
| %2nd pts | 44% | 56% |
Holt fired 8 aces . Cassone managed to score 16 aces (5.3 per match). Holt won 71% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Cassone won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Holt | Cassone |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 8 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 8/18 |
| % Converted | 80% | 44% |
| Conceded | 5 | 12 |
| Saved | 4 | 10 |
| % Saved | 80% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Holt broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Brandon dropped his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. The American broke his opponents 8 times with a 44% conversion rate. Murphy conceded his serve twice and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Holt | |||
| R1 Duckworth |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 73-61 | 73-61 | |
| Total points | 134 | 134 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 49/76 | 49/76 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 35/49 | 35/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/27 | 12/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Cassone | |||||
| Q1 Parker |
Q3 Zahraj |
R1 Evans |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | 6-4 6-3 | 7-65 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 19 | 26 | 61 | |
| pts | 63-43 | 59-47 | 95-89 | 217-179 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | 184 | 396 | |
| Winners | 30 | 27 | 50 | 107 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 46% | 53% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 6 | 4 | 6 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 39/54 | 36/54 | 70/91 | 145/199 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 67% | 77% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 30/39 | 27/36 | 50/70 | 107/145 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 75% | 71% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/15 | 11/18 | 11/21 | 30/54 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 61% | 52% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 3/4 | 1/7 | 8/18 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 75% | 14% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 3/4 | 3/4 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 75% | 75% | 250% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWWLWWWLL Tennis Scores in Birmingham Challenger
- Alex BoltBolt – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Martin LandaluceLandaluce – Mattia BellucciBellucci (4-6 6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltHolt – James DuckworthDuckworth (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (7-61 3-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Colton SmithSmith – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-2 6-73 6-4) – See score progression
- Li TuTu – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Harold MayotMayot (7-61 6-4) – See score progression
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Johannus MondayMonday (6-1 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
- Murphy CassoneCassone – Daniel EvansEvans (7-65 7-65) – See score progression
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Alexander BlockxBlockx (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Billy HarrisHarris (6-1 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-4 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (6-78 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Martin LandaluceLandaluce – Mattia BellucciBellucci (4-6 6-4 7-6(5)) – See score progression
- Colton SmithSmith – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-2 6-7(3) 6-4) – See score progression
- Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Christopher O’ConnellO’Connell (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Alexander BlockxBlockx (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Li TuTu – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Alex BoltBolt – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (6-4 7-6(3)) – See score progression
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (6-4 7-6(3)) – See score progression
- Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Johannus MondayMonday (6-1 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Harold MayotMayot (7-6(1) 6-4) – See score progression
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-6(4) 6-3) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltHolt – James DuckworthDuckworth (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Murphy CassoneCassone – Daniel EvansEvans (7-6(5) 7-6(5)) – See score progression
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (7-6(1) 3-2 ret.) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Li TuTu – Alex BoltBolt (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-0) – H2H and prediction
