Jeri Lassila and Keegan Smith will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Lincoln Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on STADIUM. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Keegan Smith who should win in 2 sets.
Keegan Smith -> 1.064
Jeri Lassila -> 7.5
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Prediction and head to head Jeri Lassila vs. Keegan Smith
There is no head to head record between Jeri Lassila and Keegan Smith since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Jeri Lassila
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2022 | 0-0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 0-0 | - | - | - | - | - |
Currently unranked, the Finn will start his run in the Lincoln Challenger after he played his last match in M15 Kotka where he lost 6-1 6-0 to Gentzsch in the 1st round on the 21st of May.
The Finn has an overall 0-1 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
Talking about his overall career, The Finn has an overall 0-0 record. He has a flat 0-0 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Lincoln Challenger
Jeri has never competed in this tournament before.
Keegan Smith
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40-21 | 26-11 | 0-0 | 14-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-26 | 36-21 | 0-1 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-26 | 31-20 | 0-0 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-24 | 26-14 | 3-4 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-5 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 558, the American got to the 1st round after defeating Joan Torres Espinosa 6-0 6-3 and Aidan Mchugh 7-6(1) 7-6(2).
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Mchugh (7-61 7-62). During the match Smith scored 92 points vs Mchugh’s 81. The American was quite aggressive to blast 49 winners.
About the serving games, Smith recorded 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Keegan Smith lost the serve twice and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Smith put 70% of his first serves in, winning 84% (49/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 32% (8/25) on the 2nd serve. Smith broke Mchugh twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Smith started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Smith’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 San Diego and M15 Fayetteville.
Smith has a compiled 31-16 win-loss record in 2025, 5-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Lincoln Challenger
- Jack Pinnington JonesPinnington Jones – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (7-66 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dhakshineswar SureshSuresh – Alex RybakovRybakov (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Johannus MondayMonday – Tyler ZinkZink (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alfredo PerezPerez – Dmitry PopkoPopko (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Michael MmohMmoh – Olle WallinWallin (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Michael MmohMmoh – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Patrick KypsonKypson – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dhakshineswar SureshSuresh – Alfredo PerezPerez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Keegan SmithSmith – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andre IlaganIlagan – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andrew FentyFenty – (1-0) – H2H and prediction