Dane Sweeny and Taro Daniel will face off in the 1st round of the Hangzhou Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 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 Taro Daniel who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Taro Daniel is the pick to win this match.
Taro Daniel -> 1.65
Dane Sweeny -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Dane Sweeny vs. Taro Daniel
This will be the 4th time that Dane Sweeny and Taro Daniel fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Sweeny (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Sweeny won 7-5 6-4 in the 1st round in the Brisbane 2 Challenger back in February 2026.
Dane Sweeny
26 - 23win/loss
112
109
LWLWWLLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 29-26 | 23-22 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 78-26 | 71-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-26 | 18-19 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-33 | 25-23 | 10-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 62-26 | 59-22 | 3-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 110, Dane will start his run in Hangzhou after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-4 6-3 6-3 to Darderi in the 3rd round on the 5th of September.
Sweeny has a compiled 26-23 win-loss record in 2026, 20-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was conquering the title the Brisbane 1 Challenger where he overcame Tristan Schoolkate in the final 3-6 7-6(5) 7-6(4).
Talking about his overall career, Dane has an overall 266-181 record. He has a positive 227-135 record on hard.
Previously in Hangzhou
Dane has never competed in this tournament before.
Taro Daniel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 38-18 | 17-12 | 21-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 12-31 | 10-19 | 1-8 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-33 | 16-16 | 5-11 | 9-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-30 | 34-16 | 7-10 | 2-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-29 | 27-17 | 12-7 | 2-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 193, the Japanese reached the 1st round after beating Jake Delaney 6-3 6-4 and Hayato Matsuoka 6-4 7-6(9).
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Matsuoka (6-4 7-69). During the match Daniel scored 84 points vs Matsuoka’s 76. Daniel was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Daniel fired 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Taro Daniel was very effective on serve to win 76% (32/42) of his 1st serve and 51% (18/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Matsuoka twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 54% of the points he played.
ATP Hangzhou - Taro Daniel's projected path
His best result of the year was winning the title the Bratislava Challenger where he overcame Alexander Shevchenko in the final 3-6 6-0 7-6(2).
The Japanese has a composed 37-15 win-loss record in 2026, 16-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Hangzhou
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- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-65 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Valentin RoyerRoyer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Fajing SunSun – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Hugo GastonGaston (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jie CuiCui – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Alex BoltBolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Taro DanielDaniel (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
