ATP Challenger Tour · Round of 16 · S M KRISHNA MEMORIAL OPEN
Final score & match stats
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Hernandez
🧱 The Wall
Honda
🛡️ The Spoiler
Matchup analysis
The 🛡️ The Spoiler archetype wins about 53% vs 🧱 The Wall across 1,099 matches in our dataset. That is a small stylistic lean for Naoya Honda here.
The Spoiler players often use strong court coverage and strong retrieval to pressure the the wall's elite returner. On Hard, that can swing with conditions.
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Hernandez | Honda |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 5–5 | 4–3 |
| Avg odds | 2.95 | 2.70 |
| ROI % | +20.9% | +82.1% |
| Units P/L | +2.09u | +5.75u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Prior meetings and scores · 1 career meeting
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Hernandez
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Honda
Serve and return comparison · Last 90 days
| Stat | Hernandez | Honda |
|---|---|---|
| Serve | ||
| 1st Serve In % | 63.4% | 56.8% |
| 1st Serve Pts Won % | 65.6% | 67.9% |
| 2nd Serve Pts Won % | 47.6% | 53.7% |
| Aces / Match | 3.5 | 3.7 |
| Double Faults / Match | 4.5 | 3.7 |
| Break Points Saved % | 56.6% | 53.3% |
| Return | ||
| 1st Return Pts Won % | 28.3% | 29.2% |
| 2nd Return Pts Won % | 53.7% | 50.8% |
| BP Converted % | 39.6% | 42.3% |
| Rally | ||
| Winners / Match | 15.3 | 23.6 |
| Unforced Errors / Match | 35.6 | 36.3 |
| Net Pts Won % | 56.2% | 61.5% |
| Total Pts Won % | 49.3% | 48.9% |
| Surface (Hard) | ||
| Hard Win % | 50% | 60% |
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Match summary
Alex Hernandez meets Naoya Honda in the Round of 16 of the S M Krishna Memorial Open on May 20 on outdoor hard courts. Hernandez, ranked 475th, arrives after winning his last match and playing twice in the past two weeks. Honda, ranked 961st, comes in on a three-match winning streak and has played five times in the same span.
The two have never faced each other. On hard courts, both players carry identical records of 9-11 over their recent samples. Hernandez has gone 2-3 in his last five matches and 4-6 in his last ten. Honda has won four of five and seven of his last ten, a stretch that includes losses to Michael Geerts, whom Hernandez also fell to recently.
Hernandez builds points through consistency and court positioning, relying on steady baseline exchanges and making opponents work for every shot. Honda operates as a disruptor, thriving on quick transitions and taking chances to break rhythm. Both players have struggled to convert hard court opportunities at roughly the same rate, making this a test of who can impose their game more decisively when chances arrive.
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