Max Purcell and Tung-Lin Wu will play each other in the 2nd round of the Nur-Sultan 3 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:30 pm on COURT 4. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Max Purcell who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Max Purcell is the pick to win this match.
Max Purcell -> 1.63
Tung-Lin Wu -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Max Purcell vs. Tung-Lin Wu
This will be the 2nd time that Max Purcell and Tung-Lin Wu face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Purcell (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Purcell won 6-2 6-2 in the final in Thailand F9 (Pattaya) back in 2017.
Max Purcell
Ranked no. 234, the Australian got to the 2nd round after beating Alessandro Bega 2-6 6-2 7-5.
In the 1st round against Bega, Max recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-2 7-5). During the match, Purcell scored 107 points vs Bega’s 101. Purcell was quite aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about the service games, Purcell fired 12 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Max Purcell lost the serve 3 times and he saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Purcell put 45% of his first serves in, winning 74% (37/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (28/60) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Bega 4 times after converting 31% of his break points (4/13).
Purcell has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 57% of his matches (163-124). 3-2 on hard in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Purcell has a compiled122-90 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
Purcell’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Eastbourne.
The Australian has a compiled 7-6 win-loss record in 2021, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sultan 3 Challenger
Purcell has never competed in this tournament before.
Tung-Lin Wu
Ranked no. 268, Tung-Lin reached the 2nd round after beating Oleksii Krutykh 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Tung-Lin had a good straight sets win against Krutykh (6-3 6-4). During the match Wu scored 57 points vs Krutykh’s 42. Tung-Lin was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Wu struck 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Tung-Lin Wu was extremely effective on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 81% (13/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Wu broke Krutykh twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Wu has an overall 11-16 win-loss record in 2021, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Purcell | Wu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 28 | 19 |
| Pts | 107-101 | 57-42 |
| Total Points | 208 | 99 |
| Winners | 37 | 28 |
| %Winners | 35% | 49% |
Both Purcell and Wu played 1 match. At the moment, Max Purcell lost 1 set while Tung-Lin Wu hasn’t dropped a set so far. Purcell has played 1 set more than Wu (3 vs 2). Therefore, Purcell played 9 games more than Wu. The Australian scored 37 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese blasted 28 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Purcell | Wu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 12 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 12 | 5 |
| 1st in | 50/110 | 36/52 |
| %1st in | 45% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 37/50 | 28/36 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 28/60 | 13/16 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 81% |
Purcell scored 12 aces . Wu struck 5 aces . Purcell won 74% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Wu won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 81% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Purcell | Wu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 2 |
| Converted | 4/13 | 2/3 |
| % Converted | 31% | 67% |
| Conceded | 14 | 0 |
| Saved | 11 | 0 |
| % Saved | 79% | NAN% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Purcell broke his opponent 4 times with a 31% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 79% of the break points that he conceded. The Chinese broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. The Chinese was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Purcell | |||
| R1 Bega |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 2-6 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 107-101 | 107-101 | |
| Total points | 208 | 208 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 12 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 50/110 | 50/110 | |
| % 1st in | 45% | 45% | |
| 1st pts | 37/50 | 37/50 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 28/60 | 28/60 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/13 | 4/13 | |
| Converted % | 31% | 31% | |
| Conceded | 14 | 14 | |
| Saved | 11/14 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 79% | 79% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Wu | |||
| R1 Krutykh |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 57-42 | 57-42 | |
| Total points | 99 | 99 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/52 | 36/52 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 28/36 | 28/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/16 | 13/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 81% | 81% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLWLWLLWW Tennis Scores in Sultan 3 Challenger
- Sergiy StakhovskyStakhovsky – Pavel KotovKotov (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Denis IstominIstomin (6-1 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Malek JaziriJaziri (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Mirza BasicBasic – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov – Akira SantillanSantillan (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Peter PolanskyPolansky – Grigoriy LomakinLomakin (6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Yunseong ChungChung – Yan BondarevskiyBondarevskiy (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Artem DubrivnyyDubrivnyy (7-5 7-63) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Alessandro BegaBega (2-6 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Lucas CatarinaCatarina (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Dostanbek TashbulatovTashbulatov (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Corentin DenollyDenolly (6-2 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Borna GojoGojo – Khumoun SultanovSultanov (7-63 6-1) – See score progression
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Nick ChappellChappell (4-6 6-3 7-66) – See score progression
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- Sergiy StakhovskyStakhovsky – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mirza BasicBasic – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov – Peter PolanskyPolansky (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Tung-Lin WuWu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Yunseong ChungChung (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
