James Duckworth and Dane Sweeny will square off in the quarter of the Sydney Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:30 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Duckworth who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, James Duckworth is the pick to win this match.
James Duckworth -> 1.43
Dane Sweeny -> 2.58

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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Dane Sweeny

This will be the 2^nd time that James Duckworth and Dane Sweeny face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Duckworth (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Duckworth won 0-6 6-3 6-2 in the 1^st round in the Guangzhou Challenger back in 2024.

James Duckworth

Ranked no. 106, the Australian got to the quarter after defeating Moerani Bouzige 6-4 6-1 and Matthew Dellavedova 6-3 6-0.

In the 2^nd round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Dellavedova (6-3 6-0). During the match, Duckworth scored 54 points vs Dellavedova’s 31. James was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Regarding the service games, Duckworth made 6 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. James Duckworth was extremely efficient on serve to win 81% (26/32) of his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Dellavedova 4 times.

Overall Performance in this tournament

James hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 63% of the points he played.

Duckworth has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (318-211). 19-19 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Duckworth has a composed 216-125 record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the year was winning the title the San Luis Potosi Challenger where he overcame Max Wiskandt in the final 6-1 6-1.

Duckworth has an aggregate 40-33 win-loss record in 2025, 19-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sydney Challenger

Dane Sweeny

Ranked no. 215, the Australian got to the quarter after beating Christian Langmo 2-0 ret. and Tung-Lin Wu 6-1 7-6(5).

In the 2^nd round, Sweeny had a good straight sets win against Wu (6-1 7-6⁵). During the match Sweeny scored 64 points vs Wu’s 49. Sweeny was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Sweeny scored 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Dane Sweeny was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 74% (32/43) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Wu 3 times.

Dane’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Swan Hill,M15 Los Angeles,M15 San Diego,M15 Brisbane,M25 Taipei,M25 Tamworth,M25 Perth and M25 Brisbane.

The Australian has a compiled 74-24 win-loss record in 2025, 67-22 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Sydney Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Duckworth	Sweeny
Match played	2	2
Tot Set	4	4
Tot Games	32	22
Pts	113-65	72-51
Total Points	178	123
Winners	52	34
%Winners	46%	47%

Both Duckworth and Sweeny played 2 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Duckworth and Sweeny have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Duckworth played 10 games more than Sweeny. Duckworth scored 52 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian bagged 34 winners (47%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Duckworth	Sweeny
Aces	14	3
Avg per match	7	1.5
1st in	61/90	45/67
%1st in	68%	67%
1st pts	52/61	34/45
%1st pts	85%	76%
2nd pts	19/29	15/22
%2nd pts	66%	68%

Duckworth bagged 14 aces (7 per match). Sweeny recorded 3 aces (1.5 per match). Duckworth won 85% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 66% of the points. On the other side, Sweeny won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Duckworth	Sweeny
Won	7	4
Converted	7/8	4/4
% Converted	88%	100%
Conceded	0	2
Saved	0	1
% Saved	0%	50%
Times Broken	0	1

James broke his opponents 7 times with a 88% conversion rate. James very solid his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Dane broke his opponents 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Dane conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Duckworth
	R1 Bouzige	R2 Dellavedova	Total
Score	6-4 6-1	6-3 6-0
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	17	15	32
pts	59-34	54-31	113-65
Total points	93	85	178
Winners	26	26	52
%Winners	44%	48%	46%
SERVE
Aces	8	6	14
Double Faults	1	0	1
1st in	29/42	32/48	61/90
% 1st in	69%	67%	68%
1st pts	26/29	26/32	52/61
% 1st pts	90%	81%	85%
2nd pts	10/13	9/16	19/29
% 2nd pts	77%	56%	66%
Breaks
Won	3	4	7
Converted	3/4	4/4	7/8
Converted %	75%	100%	88%
Conceded	0	0	0
Saved	0/0	0/0	0
Saved %	–	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0	0

Sweeny
	R1 Langmo	R2 Wu	Total
Score	2-0 ret.	6-1 7-65
Tot Set	1	2	3
Tot Games	2	20	22
pts	8-2	64-49	72-51
Total points	10	113	123
Winners	2	32	34
%Winners	25%	50%	47%
SERVE
Aces	0	3	3
Double Faults	0	2	2
1st in	2/4	43/63	45/67
% 1st in	50%	68%	67%
1st pts	2/2	32/43	34/45
% 1st pts	100%	74%	76%
2nd pts	2/2	13/20	15/22
% 2nd pts	100%	65%	68%
Breaks
Won	1	3	4
Converted	1/1	3/3	4/4
Converted %	100%	100%	100%
Conceded	0	2	2
Saved	0/0	1/2	1
Saved %	–	50%	25%
Times Broken	0	1	1

Tennis Scores in Sydney Challenger

• Anirudh Chandrasekar/Reese StalderChandrasekar/Reese Stalder – Blake Bayldon/Brandon WalkinBayldon/Brandon Walkin (7-6⁸ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

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