Blake Ellis and Tai Sach will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Sydney Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 5. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Blake Ellis who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Blake Ellis is the pick to win this match.
Blake Ellis -> 1.26
Tai Sach -> 3.4

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Prediction and head to head Blake Ellis vs. Tai Sach

This will be the 2^nd time that Blake Ellis and Tai Sach face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Ellis (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Ellis won 6-4 6-4 in the 2^nd round in M25 Brisbane back in 2024.

Blake Ellis

Ranked no. 435, Ellis got to the 2^nd round after defeating Shinji Hazawa 6-7(0) 6-2 6-4.

In the 1^st round against Hazawa, Blake recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7⁰ 6-2 6-4). During the match, Ellis scored 100 points vs Hazawa’s 84. Blake was exceptionally aggressive to blast 39 winners.

Regarding the service games, Ellis blasted 16 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Blake Ellis was pretty effective on serve to win 75% (39/52) of his 1st serve and 81% (22/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Hazawa 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

Ellis has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (241-171). 8-9 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Ellis has an aggregate 189-145 record in the last years on hard.

The Australian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Swan Hill.

Ellis has an aggregate 16-10 win-loss record in 2025, 8-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sydney Challenger

Tai Sach

Ranked no. 712 (career-high), the Australian got to the 2^nd round after beating Rio Noguchi 2-6 6-1 6-2.

In the 1^st round against Noguchi, Sach recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-1 6-2). During the match Sach scored 73 points vs Noguchi’s 62. Tai was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.

About the serving games, Sach struck 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Tai Sach lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Sach put 66% of his first serves in, winning 74% (31/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Noguchi 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Tai’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Hinode.

Tai has a compiled 25-22 win-loss record in 2025, 25-22 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sydney Challenger

Tai has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Ellis	Sach
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	31	23
Pts	100-84	73-62
Total Points	184	135
Winners	39	31
%Winners	39%	42%

Both Ellis and Sach played 1 match. Both players lost a set in the event. Blake Ellis conceded 1 set, while Tai Sach lost 1 set. Talking about their workload, Ellis and Sach have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Ellis played 8 games more than Sach. The Australian scored 39 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Sach scored 31 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Ellis	Sach
Aces	16	7
Avg per match	16	7
1st in	52/79	42/64
%1st in	66%	66%
1st pts	39/52	31/42
%1st pts	75%	74%
2nd pts	22/27	11/22
%2nd pts	81%	50%

Ellis recorded 16 aces . Sach struck 7 aces . Ellis won 75% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 81% of the points. On the other side, Sach won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Ellis	Sach
Won	3	4
Converted	3/9	4/6
% Converted	33%	67%
Conceded	1	2
Saved	1	0
% Saved	100%	0%
Times Broken	0	2

Blake broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Australian extremely effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. Sach broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Sach conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

Ellis
	R1 Hazawa	Total
Score	6-70 6-2 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	31	31
pts	100-84	100-84
Total points	184	184
Winners	39	39
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	16	16
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	52/79	52/79
% 1st in	66%	66%
1st pts	39/52	39/52
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	22/27	22/27
% 2nd pts	81%	81%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/9	3/9
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Sach
	R1 Noguchi	Total
Score	2-6 6-1 6-2
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	23	23
pts	73-62	73-62
Total points	135	135
Winners	31	31
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	42/64	42/64
% 1st in	66%	66%
1st pts	31/42	31/42
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	11/22	11/22
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	0/2	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	2	2

Tennis Scores in Sydney Challenger

• Philip SekulicSekulic – Emile HuddHudd (6-3 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Dane SweenySweeny – Christian LangmoLangmo (2-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Blake EllisEllis – Shinji HazawaHazawa (6-7⁰ 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Alex BoltBolt – Takuya KumasakaKumasaka (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Pavle MarinkovMarinkov (6-3 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Cruz HewittHewitt – Omar JasikaJasika (3-6 7-6⁶ 6-4) – See score progression
• Hayato MatsuokaMatsuoka – Bernard TomicTomic (6-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Carl Emil OverbeckEmil Overbeck – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Blaise BicknellBicknell (6-4 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Tung-Lin WuWu – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-4 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Marek GengelGengel – Hayden JonesJones (5-7 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• James McCabeMcCabe – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Tai SachSach – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (2-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Karan SinghSingh – Aryan ShahShah (7-6² 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• James DuckworthDuckworth – Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Marek GengelGengel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tung-Lin WuWu – Dane SweenySweeny (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tai SachSach – Blake EllisEllis (0-1) – H2H and prediction