James Duckworth and Hong Chung will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Seoul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Duckworth who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, James Duckworth is the pick to win this match.
James Duckworth -> 1.035
Hong Chung -> 10.25
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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Hong Chung
There is no head to head record between James Duckworth and Hong Chung since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
James Duckworth
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-18 | 16-8 | 2-3 | 5-2 | 10-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-28 | 43-21 | 1-3 | 5-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-27 | 20-18 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 4-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-24 | 15-9 | 1-2 | 12-9 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-10 | 9-4 | 1-2 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 114, Duckworth reached the 2nd round after beating Aleksandar Kovacevic 7-66 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Kovacevic (7-66 6-3). During the match, Duckworth scored 72 points vs Kovacevic’s 67. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Duckworth scored 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. James Duckworth was pretty efficient on serve to win 78% (31/40) of his 1st serve and 59% (22/37) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Duckworth broke Kovacevic once after converting 33% of his break points (1/3).
Duckworth has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (294-193). 13-13 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Duckworth has an aggregate 185-114 record in the last years on hard.
James’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Cassis Challenger.
Duckworth has an aggregate 17-21 win-loss record in 2022, 13-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Hong Chung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 3-3 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-9 | 10-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Chung reached the 2nd round after defeating Zsombor Piros 4-6 6-3 3-0 ret..
In the 1st round against Piros, Hong had a free pass after Piros retired on a 4-6 6-3 3-0 . scoreline.
The Korean has an overall 10-6 win-loss record in 2022, 10-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Duckworth | Chung |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 |
| Pts | 72-67 | 78-66 |
| Total Points | 139 | 144 |
| Winners | 31 | 26 |
| %Winners | 43% | 33% |
Both Duckworth and Chung played 1 match. At the moment, Hong Chung lost 1 set while James Duckworth hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Duckworth has played 2 set(s) less than Chung (2 vs 4). However, it is interesting to notice that they played the same amount of games (22). James scored 31 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Korean bagged 26 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Duckworth | Chung |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 0 |
| 1st in | 40/77 | 31/63 |
| %1st in | 52% | 49% |
| 1st pts | 31/40 | 26/31 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 22/37 | 16/32 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 50% |
Duckworth managed to score 5 aces . Chung didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Duckworth won 78% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Chung won 84% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Duckworth | Chung |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 4 |
| Converted | 1/3 | 4/10 |
| % Converted | 33% | 40% |
| Conceded | 4 | 7 |
| Saved | 4 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Duckworth broke his opponent once with a 33% conversion rate. Duckworth was rock solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 4 break points. Chung broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Korean conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Duckworth | |||
| R1 Kovacevic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 72-67 | 72-67 | |
| Total points | 139 | 139 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 40/77 | 40/77 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 31/40 | 31/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/37 | 22/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/3 | 1/3 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Chung | |||
| R1 Piros |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-3 3-0 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 78-66 | 78-66 | |
| Total points | 144 | 144 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 31/63 | 31/63 | |
| % 1st in | 49% | 49% | |
| 1st pts | 26/31 | 26/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/32 | 16/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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