Oliver Crawford and Alastair Gray will play each other in the quarter of the Nottingham 3 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday 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 Oliver Crawford who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Oliver Crawford is the pick to win this match.
Oliver Crawford -> 1.47
Alastair Gray -> 2.53

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Prediction and head to head Oliver Crawford vs. Alastair Gray

There is no head to head record between Oliver Crawford and Alastair Gray since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Oliver Crawford

Ranked no. 248, Crawford got to the quarter after beating Charles Broom 7-5 6-3 and Ilya Ivashka 6-0 6-3.

In the 2^nd round, Crawford had a good straight sets win against Ivashka (6-0 6-3). During the match, Crawford scored 62 points vs Ivashka’s 34. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about the service games, Crawford fired 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Oliver Crawford was very effective on serve to win 89% (24/27) of his 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Ivashka 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to win 59% of the points he played.

Crawford has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 69% of his matches (308-138). 6-4 on grass in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Crawford has a compiled 6-5 win-loss record in the last years on grass.

Crawford’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Chennai,M15 Zahra,M15 Villena,M25 Luan,M25 Shenzhen,M25 Bengaluru and M25 Sabadell.

The American has an aggregate 46-13 win-loss record in 2025, 6-4 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Nottingham 3 Challenger

Crawford has never competed in this tournament before.

Alastair Gray

Ranked no. 374, Gray got to the quarter after beating Maxime Janvier 6-3 5-7 7-5 and Lui Maxted w/o.

In the 2^nd round, The Brit defeated Maxted (w/o). During the match Gray and Maxted scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 248 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Alastair was not very aggressive do strike just winners.

About the serving games, Gray wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Alastair Gray conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.

Gray’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Bhopal and M25 Glasgow.

Alastair has a composed 24-13 win-loss record in 2025, 2-3 on grass (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Crawford	Gray
Match played	2	1
Tot Set	4	3
Tot Games	36	33
Pts	137-94	118-106
Total Points	231	224
Winners	51	48
%Winners	37%	41%

Crawford played 2 matches while Gray competed in 1 match. At the moment, Alastair Gray conceded 1 set while Oliver Crawford hasn’t lost a set so far. Crawford has played 1 set more than Gray (4 vs 3). Therefore, Crawford played 3 games more than Gray. Oliver scored 51 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Brit scored 48 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Crawford	Gray
Aces	12	16
Avg per match	6	16
1st in	62/107	62/103
%1st in	58%	60%
1st pts	51/62	48/62
%1st pts	82%	77%
2nd pts	27/45	23/41
%2nd pts	60%	56%

Crawford struck 12 aces (6 per match). Gray struck 16 aces . Crawford won 82% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Gray won 77% 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	Crawford	Gray
Won	7	3
Converted	7/18	3/12
% Converted	39%	25%
Conceded	7	8
Saved	6	6
% Saved	86%	75%
Times Broken	1	2

Crawford broke his opponents 7 times with a 39% conversion rate. Oliver surrendered his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded. Alastair broke his opponent 3 times with a 25% conversion rate. The Brit conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Crawford
	R1 Broom	R2 Ivashka	Total
Score	7-5 6-3	6-0 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	21	15	36
pts	75-60	62-34	137-94
Total points	135	96	231
Winners	27	24	51
%Winners	36%	39%	37%
SERVE
Aces	6	6	12
Double Faults	4	1	5
1st in	35/68	27/39	62/107
% 1st in	51%	69%	58%
1st pts	27/35	24/27	51/62
% 1st pts	77%	89%	82%
2nd pts	19/33	8/12	27/45
% 2nd pts	58%	67%	60%
Breaks
Won	3	4	7
Converted	3/6	4/12	7/18
Converted %	50%	33%	39%
Conceded	7	0	7
Saved	6/7	0/0	6
Saved %	86%	–	43%
Times Broken	1	0	1

Gray
	R1 Janvier	R2 Maxted	Total
Score	6-3 5-7 7-5	w/o
Tot Set	3	–	3
Tot Games	33	–	33
pts	118-106	–	118-106
Total points	224	–	224
Winners	48	–	48
%Winners	41%	–	41%
SERVE
Aces	16	–	16
Double Faults	4	–	4
1st in	62/103	–	62/103
% 1st in	60%	–	60%
1st pts	48/62	–	48/62
% 1st pts	77%	–	77%
2nd pts	23/41	–	23/41
% 2nd pts	56%	–	56%
Breaks
Won	3	–	3
Converted	3/12	–	3/12
Converted %	25%	–	25%
Conceded	8	–	8
Saved	6/8	–	6
Saved %	75%	–	38%
Times Broken	2	–	2

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