James McCabe and Alafia Ayeni will play each other in the 1^st round of the Newport Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is James McCabe who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, James McCabe is the pick to win this match.
James McCabe -> 1.196
Alafia Ayeni -> 4.2

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Prediction and head to head James McCabe vs. Alafia Ayeni

There is no head to head record between James McCabe and Alafia Ayeni since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

James McCabe

Ranked no. 181, James will start his run in the Newport Challenger after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 6-1 6-4 6-3 to Marozsan in the 1^st round on the 1^st of July.

James has a composed 20-20 win-loss record in 2025, 6-4 on grass (See FULL STATS).

The Australian’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Bengaluru Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, James has an overall 160-114 record. He has a positive 14-12 record on grass.

Previously in the Newport Challenger

McCabe has never competed in this tournament before.

Alafia Ayeni

Ranked no. 582, Alafia reached the 1^st round after beating Gage Brymer 7-6(6) 6-4 and Kiranpal Pannu 6-3 7-5.

In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Pannu (6-3 7-5). During the match Ayeni scored 68 points vs Pannu’s 55. Ayeni was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Ayeni bagged 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Alafia Ayeni lost the serve once. Furthermore, Ayeni put 69% of his first serves in, winning 80% (32/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Pannu 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 54% of the points he played.

Ayeni has an aggregate 10-12 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).

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• Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Stefan KozlovKozlov (6-1 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

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