Ji Sung Nam and Yunseong Chung will square off in the 1st round of the Columbus Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am 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 Yunseong Chung who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yunseong Chung is the pick to win this match.
Yunseong Chung -> 1.29
Ji Sung Nam -> 3.46
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Prediction and head to head Ji Sung Nam vs. Yunseong Chung
This will be the 3rd time that Ji Sung Nam and Yunseong Chung square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Chung (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they fought against each other, Chung won 6-1 6-3 in the final in Korea F3 (Daegu) back in 2018.
Ji Sung Nam
Ranked no. 382,he will start his run in the Columbus Challenger after he played his last match in KOR where he overcame 6-2 6-2 to Statham in the Rubber 1 on the 17th of September.
Ji has an aggregate 3-6 win-loss record in 2021, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
Talking about his overall career, Sung Nam has an overall 225-148 record. He has a negative 8-10 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2020. See his history.
Yunseong Chung
Ranked no. 419, Chung got to the 1st round after beating Justin Boulais 7-65 6-3 and Alexis Galarneau 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Chung had a good straight sets win against Galarneau (6-4 6-4). During the match Chung scored 59 points vs Galarneau’s 46. The Korean was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Chung made 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Yunseong Chung was very efficient on serve to win 88% (29/33) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Korean broke Galarneau 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Korean started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 55% of the points he played.
Chung’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Monastir.
The Korean has an overall 27-13 win-loss record in 2021, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Yunseong has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Columbus Challenger
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Jason JungJung (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Max PurcellPurcell – James TracyTracy (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dayne KellyKelly – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (6-2 3-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Nick ChappellChappell (5-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alex BoltBolt – Noah RubinRubin (7-65 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Peter PolanskyPolansky (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jc AragoneAragone – Evan KingKing (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Aleksandar VukicVukic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Jeff WolfWolf (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Max PurcellPurcell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Darian KingKing (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Dayne KellyKelly (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Matej VocelVocel – Cannon KingsleyKingsley (0-0) – H2H and prediction