Petr Bar Biryukov and Naoya Honda will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:30 pm on Court 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Petr Bar Biryukov who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Petr Bar Biryukov is the pick to win this match.
Petr Bar Biryukov -> 1.54
Naoya Honda -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Petr Bar Biryukov vs. Naoya Honda
There is no head to head record between Petr Bar Biryukov and Naoya Honda since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Petr Bar Biryukov
32 - 24win/loss
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LWLWLWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 37-28 | 27-16 | 6-7 | 4-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 48-30 | 48-29 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-23 | 43-22 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-20 | 15-9 | 9-9 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-17 | 25-14 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 299, Bar Biryukov reached the 2nd round after defeating Jesse Delaney 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Delaney (6-3 6-4). During the match, Bar Biryukov scored 59 points vs Delaney’s 48. Petr was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Bar Biryukov bagged 10 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Petr Bar Biryukov was quite efficient on serve to win 82% (32/39) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Russian broke Delaney twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Bar Biryukov has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 60% of his matches (196-132). 23-13 on hard in 2026. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Bar Biryukov has a composed157-88 match record in the last 6 years on hard.
His best result of the season was winning the title the Bengaluru 3 Challenger where he defeated Ilya Ivashka in the final 7-6(0) 4-6 6-4.
The Russian has a compiled 32-24 win-loss record in 2026, 23-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2025. See his history.
Naoya Honda
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31-26 | 25-22 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 25-28 | 19-20 | 3-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 5-11 | 5-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 7-2 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 656, the Japanese got to the 2nd round after defeating Hao Duan 6-2 6-3, Jesse Flores 6-4 6-4 and Nikoloz Basilashvili 2-6 7-6(6) ret..
In the 1st round against Basilashvili, the Japanese had a free pass after Basilashvili retired on a 2-6 7-66 . scoreline.
Honda’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M15 Tokyo and M25 Champaign.
Naoya has a compiled 31-23 win-loss record in 2026, 25-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Honda has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bar Biryukov | Honda |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 58 |
| Pts | 59-48 | 186-152 |
| Total Points | 107 | 338 |
| Winners | 32 | 71 |
| %Winners | 54% | 38% |
Bar Biryukov played 1 match while Honda competed in 3 matches. Honda started his run from the qualifications while Bar Biryukov had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Naoya Honda lost 1 set while Petr Bar Biryukov hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Bar Biryukov has played 5 set(s) less than Honda (2 vs 7). Therefore, Bar Biryukov played 39 games less than Honda. The Russian scored 32 winners (54% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese bagged 71 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bar Biryukov | Honda |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 16 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 5.3 |
| 1st in | 39/57 | 86/154 |
| %1st in | 68% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 32/39 | 71/86 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 44/68 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 65% |
Bar Biryukov made 10 aces . Honda recorded 16 aces (5.3 per match). Bar Biryukov won 82% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Honda won 83% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bar Biryukov | Honda |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 6 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 6/14 |
| % Converted | 50% | 43% |
| Conceded | 5 | 6 |
| Saved | 5 | 3 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
Petr broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Petr pretty effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points. Honda broke his opponents 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Bar Biryukov | |||
| R1 Delaney |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 59-48 | 59-48 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 54% | 54% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 39/57 | 39/57 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 32/39 | 32/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Honda | |||||
| Q1 Duan |
Q3 Flores |
R1 Basilashvili |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | 6-4 6-4 | 2-6 7-66 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 20 | 21 | 58 | |
| pts | 57-32 | 56-44 | 73-76 | 186-152 | |
| Total points | 89 | 100 | 149 | 338 | |
| Winners | 22 | 25 | 24 | 71 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 45% | 33% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 4 | 2 | 10 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 25/45 | 29/50 | 32/59 | 86/154 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 58% | 54% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 22/25 | 25/29 | 24/32 | 71/86 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 86% | 75% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/20 | 16/21 | 13/27 | 44/68 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 76% | 48% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 2/4 | 1/5 | 6/14 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 50% | 20% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 0/0 | 2/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 40% | 140% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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