Murphy Cassone and Darwin Blanch will square off in the 1st round of the Sumter Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 6:30 pm on STADIUM. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Murphy Cassone who should win in 3 sets.
Murphy Cassone -> 1.57
Darwin Blanch -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Murphy Cassone vs. Darwin Blanch
There is no head to head record between Murphy Cassone and Darwin Blanch since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Murphy Cassone
28 - 21win/loss
211
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. 173 (career-high), Cassone will start his run in the Sumter Challenger after he played his last match in Cincinnati where he lost 7-5 6-7(3) 7-6(4) to Vukic in the qualifications on the 6th of August.
Cassone has a compiled 28-21 win-loss record in 2025, 12-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger,the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger and the Lugano Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Murphy has an overall 94-63 record. He has a positive 51-40 record on hard.
Previously in the Sumter Challenger
Cassone has never competed in this tournament before.
Darwin Blanch
29 - 12win/loss
285
285
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40-22 | 31-14 | 2-3 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-19 | 16-10 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 7-7 | 0-2 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-8 | 7-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 404, Blanch will start his run in the Sumter Challenger after he played his last match in the Pozoblanco Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-7(6) 6-3
to Sun in the 2nd round on the 17th of July.The American has an aggregate 29-12 win-loss record in 2025, 27-9 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.Darwin’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Villena,M25 Martos and M25 Figueira da Foz.
In terms of his career, The American has an overall 70-46 record. He has a positive 50-25 record on hard.
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- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Alex RybakovRybakov (7-5 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jaime FariaFaria – Hady HabibHabib (6-79 6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Ryan SeggermanSeggerman – Lukas KleinKlein (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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