Li Tu and Mukund Sasikumar will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Seoul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:30 am on CENTER COURT. 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 Li Tu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Li Tu is the pick to win this match.
Li Tu -> 1.68
Mukund Sasikumar -> 2.08
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Prediction and head to head Li Tu vs. Mukund Sasikumar
There is no head to head record between Li Tu and Mukund Sasikumar since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Li Tu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-15 | 14-10 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-32 | 29-19 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-25 | 34-16 | 15-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-7 | 28-4 | 0-0 | 13-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 298, Tu got to the qualifications after beating Sehyuk Cho 6-1 6-0.
In the qualifications, Tu had a good straight sets win against Cho (6-1 6-0). During the match, Tu scored 55 points vs Cho’s 34. The Australian was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Tu managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Li Tu conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Tu put 65% of his first serves in, winning 75% (24/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. Tu broke Cho 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Tu has a fantastic match record in the last 3 years having won 75% of his matches (84-28). 27-12 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Tu has an overall55-16 match record in the last 3 years on hard.
Li’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Bendigo,M25 Cairo,M15 Monastir,M25 Monastir and M15 Waco.
Tu has a composed 43-20 win-loss record in 2022, 27-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Tu has never competed in this tournament before.
Mukund Sasikumar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-17 | 19-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-31 | 21-25 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-35 | 33-21 | 6-7 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-32 | 25-24 | 2-3 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-9 | 4-4 | 0-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 371, Kumar Mukund got to the qualifications after beating Jason Jung 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Kumar Mukund had a good straight sets win against Jung (6-4 6-3). During the match Kumar Mukund scored 69 points vs Jung’s 58. Kumar Mukund was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Kumar Mukund blasted 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Mukund Sasikumar lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Kumar Mukund put 56% of his first serves in, winning 70% (31/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 54% (19/35) on the 2nd serve. Sasi broke Jung 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Kumar Mukund’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Forli 1 Challenger,M15 Jakarta and M25 Sintra.
Sasi has a compiled 36-26 win-loss record in 2022, 22-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tu | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 19 |
| Pts | 55-34 | 69-58 |
| Total Points | 89 | 127 |
| Winners | 24 | 31 |
| %Winners | 44% | 45% |
Both Tu and Kumar Mukund played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Tu and Kumar Mukund have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Tu played 6 games less than Kumar Mukund. Li scored 24 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Sasi scored 31 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tu | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 8 |
| 1st in | 32/49 | 44/79 |
| %1st in | 65% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 24/32 | 31/44 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 8/17 | 19/35 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 54% |
Tu struck 4 aces . Kumar Mukund blasted 8 aces . Tu won 75% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Kumar Mukund won 70% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tu | Kumar Mukund |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 50% | 60% |
| Conceded | 2 | 7 |
| Saved | 2 | 6 |
| % Saved | 100% | 86% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Li broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Li had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 2 break points. The Indian broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Indian conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.
| Tu | |||
| Q1 Cho |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 55-34 | 55-34 | |
| Total points | 89 | 89 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 32/49 | 32/49 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 24/32 | 24/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/17 | 8/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kumar Mukund | |||
| Q1 Jung |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 69-58 | 69-58 | |
| Total points | 127 | 127 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 44/79 | 44/79 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 31/44 | 31/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/35 | 19/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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