Evan Furness and Juncheng Shang will face off in the 1st round of the Lyon Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:00 pm on Court 12. 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 Evan Furness who should win in 3 sets.
Evan Furness -> 1.61
Juncheng Shang -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Evan Furness vs. Juncheng Shang
There is no head to head record between Evan Furness and Juncheng Shang since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Evan Furness
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 15-21 | 3-3 | 9-14 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 13-15 | 0-3 | 5-5 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-31 | 2-3 | 16-12 | 19-15 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 46-27 | 14-1 | 26-20 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 223, the French player will start his run in the Lyon Challenger after he played his last match at the Roland Garros where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Copil in the qualifications on the 16th of May.
Furness has a composed 27-15 win-loss record in 2022, 13-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Furness’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Ostrava Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The French player has an overall 172-112 record. He has a positive 60-47 record on clay.
Previously in the Lyon Challenger
Evan has never competed in this tournament before.
Juncheng Shang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6-8 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-27 | 25-10 | 8-7 | 2-6 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-23 | 21-14 | 3-3 | 0-2 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-24 | 17-8 | 15-10 | 7-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-5 | 6-3 | 12-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 406, Shang reached the 1st round after beating Steven Diez 2-6 6-2 7-64 and Alex Rybakov 6-4 1-6 6-1.
In the qualifications, Shang defeated Rybakov (6-4 1-6 6-1). During the match Shang scored 75 points vs Rybakov’s 68. Shang was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Shang scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Juncheng Shang lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Shang put 75% of his first serves in, winning 58% (34/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the 2nd serve. Juncheng broke Rybakov 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Juncheng started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
Juncheng’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Naples.
The Chinese has an overall 17-12 win-loss record in 2022, 15-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Lyon Challenger
- Pedro CachinCachin – Kyrian JacquetJacquet (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Gonzalo LamaLama (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta (7-65 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (6-4 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Jelle SelsSels (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo DellienDellien – Hugo GrenierGrenier (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Maxime JanvierJanvier (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico CoriaCoria – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Corentin MoutetMoutet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Pablo AndujarAndujar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DecampsDecamps – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evan FurnessFurness – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – Manuel GuinardGuinard (0-1) – H2H and prediction