James Kent Trotter and Inaki Montes-De La Torre will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Knoxville Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 2. 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 James Kent Trotter who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, James Kent Trotter is the pick to win this match.
James Kent Trotter -> 1.71
Inaki Montes-De La Torre -> 1.99

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Prediction and head to head James Kent Trotter vs. Inaki Montes-De La Torre

There is no head to head record between James Kent Trotter and Inaki Montes-De La Torre since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

James Kent Trotter

Ranked no. 260, the Japanese reached the 2^nd round after beating Charles Broom 6-4 1-6 7-6(4).

In the 1^st round, Kent Trotter defeated Broom (6-4 1-6 7-6⁴).During the match, Kent Trotter scored less points (12) than Broom. In fact, the world no. 260 won 79 points vs Broom’s. That means that Kent Trotter was more focused during the important points. The Japanese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 53 winners.

Regarding the service games, Kent Trotter fired 16 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. James Kent Trotter lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Kent Trotter put 67% of his first serves in, winning 78% (53/68) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (14/33) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Broom once.

Kent Trotter has a winning match record in the last 8 years having won 59% of his matches (118-83). 5-3 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kent Trotter has an aggregate40-21 match record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.

The Japanese has an aggregate 28-24 win-loss record in 2025, 5-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Knoxville Challenger

Inaki Montes-De La Torre

Ranked no. 363, Montes-De La Torre reached the 2^nd round after beating Mats Rosenkranz 6-1 2-0 ret..

In the 1^st round against Rosenkranz, the Spaniard had a free pass after Rosenkranz retired on a 6-1 2-0 . scoreline.

The Spaniard’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Villena and Laukariz.

The Spaniard has a composed 39-23 win-loss record in 2025, 4-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Knoxville Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2022. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kent Trotter	Montes-De La Torre
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	30	9
Pts	79-91	38-19
Total Points	170	57
Winners	53	15
%Winners	67%	39%

Both Kent Trotter and Montes-De La Torre played 1 match. At the moment, James Kent Trotter surrendered 1 set while Inaki Montes-De La Torre hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Talking about their workload, Kent Trotter and Montes-De La Torre have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Kent Trotter played 21 games more than Montes-De La Torre. The Japanese scored 53 winners (67% of the total points). On the other side, The Spaniard scored 15 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kent Trotter	Montes-De La Torre
Aces	16	5
Avg per match	16	5
1st in	68/101	16/27
%1st in	67%	59%
1st pts	53/68	15/16
%1st pts	78%	94%
2nd pts	14/33	6/11
%2nd pts	42%	55%

Kent Trotter bagged 16 aces . Montes-De La Torre made 5 aces . Kent Trotter won 78% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Montes-De La Torre won 94% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kent Trotter	Montes-De La Torre
Won	1	3
Converted	1/1	3/6
% Converted	100%	50%
Conceded	9	1
Saved	6	1
% Saved	67%	100%
Times Broken	3	0

James broke his opponent once with a 100% conversion rate. The Japanese surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Inaki broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Montes-De La Torre was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Kent Trotter
	R1 Broom	Total
Score	6-4 1-6 7-64
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	30	30
pts	79-91	79-91
Total points	170	170
Winners	53	53
%Winners	67%	67%
SERVE
Aces	16	16
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	68/101	68/101
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	53/68	53/68
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	14/33	14/33
% 2nd pts	42%	42%
Breaks
Won	1	1
Converted	1/1	1/1
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	9	9
Saved	6/9	6
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	3	3

Montes-De La Torre
	R1 Rosenkranz	Total
Score	6-1 2-0 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	9	9
pts	38-19	38-19
Total points	57	57
Winners	15	15
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	16/27	16/27
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	15/16	15/16
% 1st pts	94%	94%
2nd pts	6/11	6/11
% 2nd pts	55%	55%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/6	3/6
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Knoxville Challenger

• Murphy CassoneCassone – Matias SotoSoto (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Daniil GlinkaGlinka – Peter MakkMakk (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Alex RybakovRybakov (6-7⁵ 7-6² 6-0) – See score progression
• Jay ClarkeClarke – Francisco RochaRocha (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Charles BroomBroom (6-4 1-6 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Oliver TarvetTarvet – Andre IlaganIlagan (3-6 6-3 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Darwin BlanchBlanch – Alexander KotzenKotzen (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Max WiskandtWiskandt – Leo BorgBorg (4-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – Aristotelis ThanosThanos (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Alfredo PerezPerez – Andrew FentyFenty (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Shunsuke MitsuiMitsui – Dhakshineswar SureshSuresh (7-6³ 7-6⁰) – See score progression
• Stefan KozlovKozlov – Dominique RollandRolland (7-6¹ 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Hoyoung RohRoh (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Andres MartinMartin – Tyler ZinkZink (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Antoine GhibaudoGhibaudo – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Inaki Montes-De La TorreMontes-De La Torre – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (6-1 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Oliver TarvetTarvet – Andre IlaganIlagan (3-6 6-3 7-6(6)) – See score progression
• Max WiskandtWiskandt – Leo BorgBorg (4-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Stefan KozlovKozlov – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Daniil GlinkaGlinka – Alfredo PerezPerez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – (0-0) – H2H and prediction