Murphy Cassone and Harry Wendelken will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Ilkley Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:00 pm on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Murphy Cassone who should win in 2 sets.
Murphy Cassone -> 1.36
Harry Wendelken -> 2.94
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Prediction and head to head Murphy Cassone vs. Harry Wendelken
There is no head to head record between Murphy Cassone and Harry Wendelken since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Murphy Cassone
24 - 14win/loss
215
172
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42-31 | 17-14 | 2-4 | 17-9 | 6-4 | 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. 194 (career-high), Cassone got to the qualifications after defeating Hamish Stewart 7-6(4) 6-2.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Stewart (7-64 6-2). During the match, Cassone scored 73 points vs Stewart’s 60. Murphy was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about the service games, Cassone scored just 1 ace in the encounter and he committed only 1 double fault. Murphy Cassone was pretty efficient on serve to win 82% (32/39) of his 1st serve and 62% (16/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Stewart twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Cassone has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 61% of his matches (89-56). 4-1 on grass in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Cassone has an aggregate4-1 win-loss record in the last 7 years on grass.
Murphy’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger,the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger and the Lugano Challenger.
Cassone has an overall 23-14 win-loss record in 2025, 4-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ilkley Challenger
Cassone has never competed in this tournament before.
Harry Wendelken
21 - 14win/loss
326
323
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50-27 | 25-14 | 1-1 | 22-10 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-33 | 10-16 | 0-2 | 14-12 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2023 | 29-26 | 12-10 | 0-1 | 15-11 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-22 | 8-7 | 1-2 | 15-9 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-20 | 30-15 | 8-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 502, the Brit reached the qualifications after beating Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Gueymard Wayenburg (6-4 6-3). During the match Wendelken scored 62 points vs Gueymard Wayenburg’s 49. The Brit was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Wendelken managed to score 5 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Harry Wendelken was very efficient on serve to win 76% (26/34) of his 1st serve and 75% (12/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Brit broke Gueymard Wayenburg 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Wendelken’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in Balma.
Harry has a composed 21-13 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cassone | Wendelken |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 19 |
| Pts | 73-60 | 62-49 |
| Total Points | 133 | 111 |
| Winners | 32 | 26 |
| %Winners | 44% | 42% |
Both Cassone and Wendelken played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Cassone and Wendelken have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Cassone played 2 games more than Wendelken. Cassone scored 32 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Harry scored 26 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cassone | Wendelken |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 5 |
| 1st in | 39/65 | 34/50 |
| %1st in | 60% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 32/39 | 26/34 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 16/26 | 12/16 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 75% |
Cassone fired 1 ace . Wendelken also made 5 aces . Cassone won 82% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Wendelken won 76% of the points behind 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 | Cassone | Wendelken |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/6 | 3/9 |
| % Converted | 33% | 33% |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 |
| Saved | 4 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Murphy broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. The American very solid his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points. Wendelken broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Harry was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Cassone | |||
| Q1 Stewart | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 73-60 | 73-60 | |
| Total points | 133 | 133 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 39/65 | 39/65 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 32/39 | 32/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/26 | 16/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Wendelken | |||
| Q1 Gueymard | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 62-49 | 62-49 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 34/50 | 34/50 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 26/34 | 26/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/16 | 12/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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