Tung-Lin Wu and Liam Caruana will clash against each other in the 3rd round of the Launceston Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tung-Lin Wu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tung-Lin Wu is the pick to win this match.
Tung-Lin Wu -> 1.57
Liam Caruana -> 2.25
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Prediction and head to head Tung-Lin Wu vs. Liam Caruana
There is no head to head record between Tung-Lin Wu and Liam Caruana since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tung-Lin Wu
Ranked no. 223 (career high), Tung-Lin got to the 3rd round after defeating Jacob Grills 4-6 6-4 7-64.
In the 2nd round against Grills, Tung-Lin recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 7-64). During the match Wu scored 98 points vs Grills’s 96. Wu was extremely aggressive to blast 52 winners.
Talking about serving, Wu blasted 13 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Tung-Lin Wu lost the serve 5 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Wu put 73% of his first serves in, winning 70% (52/74) of the points behind his 1st serve and 33% (9/27) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Grills 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Wu has a unfavourable win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 45% of his matches (74-61). 2-3 on hard in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Wu has a 40-33 record in the last 5 years on hard.
Wu has a 2-3 win-loss record in 2020, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Launceston Challenger
Tung-Lin didn’t play in the Launceston Challenger in 2019.
Liam Caruana
Ranked no. 502, Caruana reached the 3rd round after beating Jeremy Beale 6-0 6-1 and Yannick Hanfmann 6-1 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Caruana had a good straight sets win against Hanfmann (6-1 6-2). During the match Caruana scored 57 points vs Hanfmann’s 32. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Caruana blasted 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Liam Caruana was extremely effective on serve to win 89% (24/27) of his 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Italian broke Hanfmann 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Italian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 64% of the points he played.
Caruana has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 63% of his matches (50-30). 4-2 on hard in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Caruana has a 27-28 win-loss record in the last 5 years on hard.
Liam has a 4-2 win-loss record in 2020, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Launceston Challenger
The Italian didn’t play in the Launceston Challenger in 2019.
Live score
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H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Wu | Caruana |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 33 | 28 |
| Pts | 98-96 | 125-70 |
| Total Points | 194 | 195 |
| Winners | 52 | 52 |
| %Winners | 53% | 42% |
Wu played 1 match while Caruana competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Tung-Lin Wu conceded 1 set while Liam Caruana hasn’t dropped a set so far. Wu has played 1 sets less than Caruana (3 vs 4). However, it’s interesting to notice that Wu played 5 games more than Caruana. Wu scored 52 winners (53% on total points). On the other side, The Italian blasted 52 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Wu | Caruana |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 13 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 13 | 2 |
| 1st in | 74/101 | 67/101 |
| %1st in | 73% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 52/74 | 52/67 |
| %1st pts | 70% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 9/27 | 20/34 |
| %2nd pts | 33% | 59% |
Wu blasted 13 aces . Caruana blasted 4 aces (2 per match). Wu won 70% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 33% of the points. On the other side, Caruana won 78% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Wu | Caruana |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 9 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 9/16 |
| % Converted | 56% | 56% |
| Conceded | 9 | 10 |
| Saved | 4 | 10 |
| % Saved | 44% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 0 |
Wu broke his opponent 5 times with 56% conversion rate. Tung-Lin conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 44% of the break points that he conceded. Liam broke his opponents 9 times with 56% conversion rate. The Italian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 10 break points.
| Wu | |||
| R2 Grills |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-4 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 33 | 33 | |
| pts | 98-96 | 98-96 | |
| Total points | 194 | 194 | |
| Winners | 52 | 52 | |
| %Winners | 53% | 53% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 13 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 74/101 | 74/101 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 52/74 | 52/74 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/27 | 9/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 33% | 33% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 4/9 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 44% | 44% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 400 | |
| Caruana | ||||
| R1 Beale |
R2 Hanfmann |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-1 | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 15 | 28 | |
| pts | 68-38 | 57-32 | 125-70 | |
| Total points | 106 | 89 | 195 | |
| Winners | 28 | 24 | 52 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 40/60 | 27/41 | 67/101 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 28/40 | 24/27 | 52/67 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 89% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/20 | 8/14 | 20/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 57% | 59% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 4/7 | 9/16 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 57% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 0 | 10 | |
| Saved | 10/10 | 0/0 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | -100 | |
Head 2 Head
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