Mark Lajal and Dhakshineswar Suresh will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Lexington Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:00 pm on STADIUM 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mark Lajal who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Mark Lajal is the pick to win this match.
Mark Lajal -> 1.22
Dhakshineswar Suresh -> 3.92

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Prediction and head to head Mark Lajal vs. Dhakshineswar Suresh

There is no head to head record between Mark Lajal and Dhakshineswar Suresh since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Mark Lajal

Ranked no. 147 (career-high), Mark reached the 2^nd round after defeating Lloyd Harris 7-5 4-2 ret..

In the 1^st round against Lloyd, Lajal had a free pass after Lloyd retired on a 7-5 4-2 . scoreline.

Lajal has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 61% of his matches (164-103). 13-4 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Lajal has an aggregate96-50 win-loss record in the last 5 years on hard.

His best result of the season was conquering the title the Bloomfield Hills Challenger where he overcame Andres Martin in the final 6-7(7) 7-5 7-6(9).

The Estonian has a compiled 29-13 win-loss record in 2025, 13-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Lexington Challenger

The Estonian has never competed in this tournament before.

Dhakshineswar Suresh

Ranked no. 788, the Indian got to the 2^nd round after beating Naoki Nakagawa 7-6(4) 5-1 ret., Andre Ilagan 6-4 7-6(4) and Billy Harris 6-3 7-5.

In the 1^st round, The Indian had a good straight sets win against Harris (6-3 7-5). During the match Suresh scored 71 points vs Harris’s 55. Suresh was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.

About the serving games, Suresh scored 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Dhakshineswar Suresh was quite effective on serve to win 83% (30/36) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Dhakshineswar broke Harris 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).

Suresh’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Dallas.

The Indian has a compiled 11-4 win-loss record in 2025, 8-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Lajal	Suresh
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	3	7
Tot Games	18	63
Pts	0-0	206-157
Total Points	0	363
Winners	0	89
%Winners	0%	43%

Lajal played 1 match while Suresh competed in 3 matches. Suresh started his run from the qualifications while Lajal had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Lajal has played 4 set(s) less than Suresh (3 vs 7). Therefore, Lajal played 45 games less than Suresh. Lajal scored 0 winners (0% of the total points). On the other side, Dhakshineswar recorded 89 winners (43%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Lajal	Suresh
Aces	0	34
Avg per match	0	11.3
1st in	0/0	107/173
%1st in	0%	62%
1st pts	0/0	89/107
%1st pts	0%	83%
2nd pts	0/0	43/66
%2nd pts	0%	65%

Lajal didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Suresh made 34 aces (11.3 per match). Lajal won 0% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 0% of the points. On the other side, Suresh won 83% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Lajal	Suresh
Won	0	8
Converted	0/0	8/19
% Converted	0%	42%
Conceded	0	8
Saved	0	5
% Saved	0%	63%
Times Broken	0	3

Mark hasn’t manged yet to break his opponent. He didn’t manage to even clinch a single break point. The Estonian very solid his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points without even conceding a single break point. Suresh broke his opponents 8 times with a 42% conversion rate. Dhakshineswar conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded.

Lajal
	R1 Lloyd	Total
Score	7-5 4-2 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	–	0-0
Total points	0	0
Winners		0
%Winners	0%	0%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults		0
1st in	/	0/0
% 1st in	0%	0%
1st pts	/	0/0
% 1st pts	0%	%
2nd pts	/	0/0
% 2nd pts	0%	0%
Breaks
Won		0
Converted	/	0/0
Converted %	0%	0%
Conceded		0
Saved	0/	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken		0

Suresh
	Q1 Nakagawa	Q3 Ilagan	R1 Harris	Total
Score	7-64 5-1 ret.	6-4 7-64	6-3 7-5
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	19	23	21	63
pts	65-46	70-56	71-55	206-157
Total points	111	126	126	363
Winners	25	34	30	89
%Winners	38%	49%	42%	43%
SERVE
Aces	13	12	9	34
Double Faults	1	3	1	5
1st in	34/54	37/63	36/56	107/173
% 1st in	63%	59%	64%	62%
1st pts	25/34	34/37	30/36	89/107
% 1st pts	74%	92%	83%	83%
2nd pts	14/20	17/26	12/20	43/66
% 2nd pts	70%	65%	60%	65%
Breaks
Won	4	1	3	8
Converted	4/6	1/2	3/11	8/19
Converted %	67%	50%	27%	42%
Conceded	4	2	2	8
Saved	2/4	2/2	1/2	5
Saved %	50%	100%	50%	200%
Times Broken	2	0	1	3

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