Murphy Cassone and Matias Soto will play each other in the 1st round of the Knoxville Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm 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 Murphy Cassone who should win in 2 sets.
Murphy Cassone -> 1.23
Matias Soto -> 3.64
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Prediction and head to head Murphy Cassone vs. Matias Soto
There is no head to head record between Murphy Cassone and Matias Soto since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Murphy Cassone
37 - 29win/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. 245, the American reached the 1st round after defeating Gage Brymer 6-3 6-1 and Alejandro Moreno 6-2 6-0.
In the qualifications, Murphy had a good straight sets win against Moreno (6-2 6-0). During the match, Cassone scored 56 points vs Moreno’s 28. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Regarding the service games, Cassone blasted 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Murphy Cassone was pretty effective on serve to win 90% (18/20) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Murphy broke Moreno 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Cassone started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 65% of the points he played.
Cassone has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 59% of his matches (102-71). 11-7 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cassone has a composed38-18 win-loss record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.
Cassone’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger,the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger and the Lugano Challenger.
The American has a compiled 36-29 win-loss record in 2025, 11-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in the Knoxville Challenger
Matias Soto
21 - 29win/loss
300
240
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21-29 | 2-4 | 19-20 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 57-27 | 10-9 | 43-17 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-19 | 4-4 | 14-14 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-7 | 7-3 | 14-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-9 | 6-3 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 275, Soto will start his run in the Knoxville Challenger after he played his last match in the Charlottesville Challenger where he lost 4-6 7-5 6-3 to Hijikata in the 1st
round on the 28th of October.The Chilean has a compiled 21-28 win-loss record in 2025, 0-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
The Chilean’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Concepcion Challenger,the Campinas Challenger and M25 Coquimbo.
In terms of his career, Soto has an overall 147-101 record. He has a negative 4-6 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Knoxville Challenger
The Chilean has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Knoxville Challenger
- Inaki Montes-De La TorreMontes-De La Torre – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (6-1 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Hoyoung RohRoh (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Antoine GhibaudoGhibaudo – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Dominique RollandRolland (7-61 2-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andres MartinMartin – Tyler ZinkZink (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Alex RybakovRybakov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alfredo PerezPerez – Andrew FentyFenty (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniil GlinkaGlinka – Peter MakkMakk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco RochaRocha – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matias SotoSoto – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andre IlaganIlagan – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Charles BroomBroom (0-0) – H2H and prediction