Zura Tkemaladze and Seong Chan Hong will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Nur-Sultan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Seong Chan Hong who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Seong Chan Hong is the pick to win this match.
Seong Chan Hong -> 1.082
Zura Tkemaladze -> 7.2
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Prediction and head to head Zura Tkemaladze vs. Seong Chan Hong
There is no head to head record between Zura Tkemaladze and Seong Chan Hong since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Zura Tkemaladze
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-29 | 21-20 | 5-6 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-33 | 31-24 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-27 | 29-19 | 9-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-13 | 5-8 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, the Georgean got to the qualifications after defeating Islam Orynbasar 6-0 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Georgean had a good straight sets win against Orynbasar (6-0 6-2). During the match, Tkemaladze scored 61 points vs Orynbasar’s 29. Zura was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Tkemaladze scored just 1 ace and he committed only 2 double faults. Zura Tkemaladze lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Tkemaladze put 74% of his first serves in, winning 67% (26/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the 2nd serve. Zura broke Orynbasar 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Tkemaladze has a winning win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 52% of his matches (35-32). 13-6 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Tkemaladze has an overall18-16 match record in the last 5 years on hard.
Zura has an aggregate 26-14 win-loss record in 2022, 13-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the The Nur-Sultan Challenger
Zura has never competed in this tournament before.
Seong Chan Hong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-26 | 21-20 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-27 | 14-12 | 10-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-26 | 4-7 | 23-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-15 | 9-7 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-8 | 8-3 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 506, Seong reached the qualifications after defeating Min-Kyu Song 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Chan Hong had a good straight sets win against Song (6-1 6-4). During the match Chan Hong scored 57 points vs Song’s 43. Seong was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Chan Hong struck 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Seong Chan Hong was very effective on serve to win 85% (23/27) of his 1st serve and 56% (15/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Chan Hong broke Song 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Chan Hong’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Chiang Rai and M25 Harmon.
Chan Hong has an overall 23-6 win-loss record in 2022, 19-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tkemaladze | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 17 |
| Pts | 61-29 | 57-43 |
| Total Points | 90 | 100 |
| Winners | 26 | 23 |
| %Winners | 43% | 40% |
Both Tkemaladze and Chan Hong played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Tkemaladze and Chan Hong have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Tkemaladze played 3 games less than Chan Hong. Tkemaladze scored 26 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Chan Hong struck 23 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tkemaladze | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 5 |
| 1st in | 39/53 | 27/54 |
| %1st in | 74% | 50% |
| 1st pts | 26/39 | 23/27 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 85% |
| 2nd pts | 8/14 | 15/27 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 56% |
Tkemaladze made 1 ace . Chan Hong also blasted 5 aces . Tkemaladze won 67% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Chan Hong won 85% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tkemaladze | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 3 |
| Converted | 6/9 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 67% | 60% |
| Conceded | 4 | 1 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 75% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Tkemaladze broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. Tkemaladze surrendered his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Korean broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Seong was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Tkemaladze | |||
| Q1 Orynbasar |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 61-29 | 61-29 | |
| Total points | 90 | 90 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 39/53 | 39/53 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 26/39 | 26/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/14 | 8/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Chan Hong | |||
| Q1 Song |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 57-43 | 57-43 | |
| Total points | 100 | 100 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 27/54 | 27/54 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 23/27 | 23/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/27 | 15/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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