Ji Sung Nam and Shinji Hazawa will face off in the qualifications of the Gwangju Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ji Sung Nam who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ji Sung Nam is the pick to win this match.
Ji Sung Nam -> 1.6
Shinji Hazawa -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Ji Sung Nam vs. Shinji Hazawa
There is no head to head record between Ji Sung Nam and Shinji Hazawa since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Ji Sung Nam
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-7 | 5-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 15-20 | 13-15 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-19 | 24-13 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 4-7 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 590, Ji got to the qualifications after beating Hoyoung Roh 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, Ji had a good straight sets win against Roh (6-2 6-1). During the match, Sung Nam scored 55 points vs Roh’s 28. Ji was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Sung Nam scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Ji Sung Nam was quite efficient on serve to win 80% (20/25) of his 1st serve and 64% (7/11) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sung Nam broke Roh 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Sung Nam has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (220-138). 19-9 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Sung Nam has an overall 185-111 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
The Korean’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Chiang Rai.
Sung Nam has a composed 21-14 win-loss record in 2022, 19-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
Shinji Hazawa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-3 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-15 | 14-13 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-27 | 49-26 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 692, will start his run in the Gwangju Challenger after he played his last match in the Gwangju Challenger where he beat 6-3 6-2 to Min Lee in the qualifications on the 2nd of October.
Shinji has a compiled 45-21 win-loss record in 2022, 45-21 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Shinji’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Seremban.
In terms of his career, Hazawa has an overall 82-52 record. He has a positive 73-41 record on hard.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sung Nam | Hazawa |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 17 |
| Pts | 55-28 | 72-48 |
| Total Points | 83 | 120 |
| Winners | 20 | 26 |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% |
Both Sung Nam and Hazawa played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sung Nam and Hazawa have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sung Nam played 2 games less than Hazawa. Ji scored 20 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Hazawa managed to score 26 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sung Nam | Hazawa |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3 |
| 1st in | 25/36 | 31/43 |
| %1st in | 69% | 72% |
| 1st pts | 20/25 | 26/31 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 7/11 | 8/12 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 67% |
Sung Nam struck 1 ace . Hazawa also fired 3 aces . Sung Nam won 80% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Hazawa won 84% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sung Nam | Hazawa |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/9 | 4/11 |
| % Converted | 67% | 36% |
| Conceded | 4 | 1 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 75% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Sung Nam broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Korean dropped his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Shinji broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Japanese was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Sung Nam | |||
| Q1 Roh |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 55-28 | 55-28 | |
| Total points | 83 | 83 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 25/36 | 25/36 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 20/25 | 20/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/11 | 7/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 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 | |
| Hazawa | |||
| Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | |||
| Tot Set | 0 | ||
| Tot Games | 0 | ||
| pts | 0-0 | ||
| Total points | 0 | ||
| Winners | 0 | ||
| %Winners | 0% | ||
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | ||
| Double Faults | 0 | ||
| 1st in | 0/0 | ||
| % 1st in | 0% | ||
| 1st pts | 0/0 | ||
| % 1st pts | 0% | ||
| 2nd pts | 0/0 | ||
| % 2nd pts | 0% | ||
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 0 | ||
| Converted | 0/0 | ||
| Converted % | 0% | ||
| Conceded | 0 | ||
| Saved | 0 | ||
| Saved % | 0% | ||
| Times Broken | 0 | ||
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