Tung-Lin Wu and Liam Draxl will square off in the 1st round of the Puerto Vallarta Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on CANCHA LA AFICION. 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 Tung-Lin Wu who should win in 2 sets.
Tung-Lin Wu -> 1.25
Liam Draxl -> 3.75
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Prediction and head to head Tung-Lin Wu vs. Liam Draxl
There is no head to head record between Tung-Lin Wu and Liam Draxl since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tung-Lin Wu
Ranked no. 266, Tung-Lin will start his run in the Puerto Vallarta Challenger after he played his last match in the Champaign Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-3 to Vukic in the 1st round on the 16th of November.
Tung-Lin has an aggregate 18-25 win-loss record in 2021, 9-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tung-Lin’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Istanbul 2 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Chinese has an overall 150-121 record. He has a positive 108-77 record on hard.
Previously in the Puerto Vallarta Challenger
Wu has never competed in this tournament before.
Liam Draxl
Ranked no. 716, Liam reached the 1st round after beating Dennis Novikov 6-3 6-1 and Vasil Kirkov 5-1 ret..
In the qualifications, Liam had a good straight sets win against Kirkov (5-1 ret.). During the match Draxl scored 21 points vs Kirkov’s 7. Draxl was exceptionally aggressive to blast 9 winners.
Talking about serving, Draxl wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Liam Draxl was exceptionally effective on serve to win 90% (9/10) of his 1st serve and 75% (3/4) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Canadian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Kirkov twice.
Liam’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Weston,M15 Naples and M15 Vero Beach.
The Canadian has an overall 17-12 win-loss record in 2021, 4-7 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.Tennis Scores in Puerto Vallarta Challenger
- Tatsuma ItoIto – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (6-2 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Alexander SarkissianSarkissian (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (7-5 6-74 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juncheng ShangShang – Martin CuevasCuevas (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Donald YoungYoung – Milledge CossuCossu (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Alex RybakovRybakov – Juan Hernandez SerranoHernandez Serrano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Donald YoungYoung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christian LangmoLangmo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Jose StathamStatham (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Govind NandaNanda – Jc AragoneAragone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Liam DraxlDraxl – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction