Max Purcell and Egor Gerasimov will face off in the 2nd round of the Wuxi Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Max Purcell who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Max Purcell is the pick to win this match.
Max Purcell -> 1.31
Egor Gerasimov -> 3.25
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Prediction and head to head Max Purcell vs. Egor Gerasimov
There is no head to head record between Max Purcell and Egor Gerasimov since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Max Purcell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-24 | 10-16 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-28 | 45-17 | 2-3 | 5-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-29 | 21-15 | 5-8 | 2-2 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-14 | 13-9 | 0-1 | 4-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-12 | 3-5 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 84, the Australian reached the 2nd round after defeating Fajing Sun 4-6 6-1 6-1.
In the 1st round against Sun, Max recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-1 6-1). During the match, Purcell scored 87 points vs Sun’s 71. Purcell was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Purcell managed to score 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Max Purcell was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (29/40) of his 1st serve and 60% (21/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Max broke Sun 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Purcell has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (269-199). 4-9 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Purcell has an aggregate 199-136 record in the last years on hard.
Purcell has an overall 7-12 win-loss record in 2024, 4-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Wuxi Challenger
Max has never competed in this tournament before.
Egor Gerasimov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-27 | 14-16 | 0-3 | 11-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-25 | 18-15 | 1-3 | 7-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-16 | 8-10 | 7-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-32 | 5-10 | 2-8 | 14-11 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-15 | 6-6 | 1-3 | 11-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 321, the Belarussian got to the 2nd round after defeating Hiroki Moriya 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Belarussian had a good straight sets win against Moriya (6-3 7-5). During the match Gerasimov scored 69 points vs Moriya’s 59. Egor was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Gerasimov recorded 7 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Egor Gerasimov lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Gerasimov put 56% of his first serves in, winning 78% (28/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 32% (9/28) on the 2nd serve. Egor broke Moriya 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
The Belarussian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Oeiras 1 Challenger.
Egor has a compiled 16-13 win-loss record in 2024, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Purcell | Gerasimov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 24 | 21 |
| Pts | 87-71 | 69-59 |
| Total Points | 158 | 128 |
| Winners | 29 | 28 |
| %Winners | 33% | 41% |
Both Purcell and Gerasimov played 1 match. At the moment, Max Purcell conceded 1 set while Egor Gerasimov hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Purcell has played 1 set more than Gerasimov (3 vs 2). Therefore, Purcell played 3 games more than Gerasimov. The Australian scored 29 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Egor fired 28 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Purcell | Gerasimov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 7 |
| 1st in | 40/75 | 36/64 |
| %1st in | 53% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 29/40 | 28/36 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 21/35 | 9/28 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 32% |
Purcell recorded 7 aces . Gerasimov bagged 7 aces . Purcell won 73% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Gerasimov won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 32% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Purcell | Gerasimov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 6/10 |
| % Converted | 56% | 60% |
| Conceded | 4 | 6 |
| Saved | 3 | 3 |
| % Saved | 75% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Purcell broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Australian lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Gerasimov broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Gerasimov conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Purcell | |||
| R1 Sun |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 24 | 24 | |
| pts | 87-71 | 87-71 | |
| Total points | 158 | 158 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 40/75 | 40/75 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 29/40 | 29/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/35 | 21/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Gerasimov | |||
| R1 Moriya |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 69-59 | 69-59 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 36/64 | 36/64 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 28/36 | 28/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/28 | 9/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 32% | 32% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/6 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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