Marat Sharipov and Thomas Fancutt will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 6:00 pm on Court 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marat Sharipov who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marat Sharipov is the pick to win this match.
Marat Sharipov -> 1.105
Thomas Fancutt -> 5.5
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Prediction and head to head Marat Sharipov vs. Thomas Fancutt
There is no head to head record between Marat Sharipov and Thomas Fancutt since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Marat Sharipov
29 - 17win/loss
364
243
LWWWWLWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 29-17 | 17-8 | 10-7 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 48-26 | 24-11 | 14-9 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 46-17 | 16-7 | 27-7 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 65-18 | 43-4 | 22-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-19 | 8-6 | 7-10 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 364, Sharipov will start his run in the Guangzhou Challenger after he played his last match in the Shanghai Challenger where he lost 6-4 3-6 7-6(7) to Ivashka in the final on the 13th of September.
Marat has a composed 29-17 win-loss record in 2026, 17-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Marat’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Shanghai Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Marat has an overall 219-114 record. He has a positive 110-41 record on hard.
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2025. See his history.
Thomas Fancutt
26 - 15win/loss
699
382
LWLLWWWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 26-15 | 23-12 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 13-19 | 8-11 | 5-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-20 | 18-17 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 8-1 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 34-23 | 28-18 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 699, the Australian reached the 1st round after beating Zijiang Yang 6-4 7-6(2) and James Kent Trotter 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Fancutt had a good straight sets win against Yang (6-4 7-62). During the match Fancutt scored 83 points vs Yang’s 71. Thomas was exceptionally aggressive to blast 46 winners.
About the serving games, Fancutt submerged his opponent with 21 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Thomas Fancutt conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Fancutt put 74% of his first serves in, winning 87% (46/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (8/19) on the 2nd serve. Thomas broke Yang once after converting 13% of his break points (1/8).
ATP Guangzhou Challenger - Thomas Fancutt's projected path
Thomas’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Sharm ElSheikh.
The Australian has an overall 26-15 win-loss record in 2026, 23-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Guangzhou Challenger
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- Pavel KotovKotov – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (7-6(4) 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elias YmerYmer – Semen PankinPankin (5-7 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Akira SantillanSantillan – Yaojie ZengZeng (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Colin SinclairSinclair – Linang XiaoXiao (6-4 1-6 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Kaichi UchidaUchida (3-6 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Colin SinclairSinclair – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jake DelaneyDelaney – Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo – Omar JasikaJasika (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fajing SunSun – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jesse DelaneyDelaney – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
