Darwin Blanch and Keegan Smith will square off in the 1^st round of the Charlottesville Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Darwin Blanch who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Darwin Blanch is the pick to win this match.
Darwin Blanch -> 1.78
Keegan Smith -> 1.96

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Prediction and head to head Darwin Blanch vs. Keegan Smith

There is no head to head record between Darwin Blanch and Keegan Smith since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Darwin Blanch

Ranked no. 337 (career-high), the American will start his run in the Charlottesville Challenger after he played his last match in the Sioux Falls Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Draxl in the 1^st round on the 20^th of October.

The American has an aggregate 34-19 win-loss record in 2025, 1-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Blanch’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Villena,M25 Martos and M25 Figueira da Foz.

Talking about his overall career, Blanch has an overall 75-53 record. He has a negative 1-2 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in the Charlottesville Challenger

Blanch has never competed in this tournament before.

Keegan Smith

Ranked no. 521, Smith got to the 1^st round after beating Noah Schachter 6-4 6-3 and Dan Martin 6-4 6-2.

In the qualifications, Smith had a good straight sets win against Martin (6-4 6-2). During the match Smith scored 58 points vs Martin’s 38. Keegan was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Smith recorded 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Keegan Smith was exceptionally effective on serve to win 82% (32/39) of his 1st serve and 67% (6/9) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Martin 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Keegan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 58% of the points he played.

Smith’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 San Diego and M15 Fayetteville.

The American has a compiled 36-18 win-loss record in 2025, 10-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Charlottesville Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.

Tennis Scores in Charlottesville Challenger

• Jay ClarkeClarke – Tyler ZinkZink (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Inaki Montes-De La TorreMontes-De La Torre – Andre IlaganIlagan (5-7 7-6¹ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Patrick ZahrajZahraj – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Oliver TarvetTarvet – Nicolas MejiaMejia (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Martin DammDamm – Charles BroomBroom (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Patrick KypsonKypson – Daniil GlinkaGlinka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dhakshineswar SureshSuresh – Liam DraxlDraxl (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Matias SotoSoto (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Cannon KingsleyKingsley – Justin BoulaisBoulais (2-0) – H2H and prediction