Yunseong Chung and Seong Chan Hong will play each other in the 2nd round of the Busan Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday 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 Yunseong Chung who should win in 3 sets.
Yunseong Chung -> 1.54
Seong Chan Hong -> 2.41
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Prediction and head to head Yunseong Chung vs. Seong Chan Hong
This will be the 3rd time that Yunseong Chung and Seong Chan Hong square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Chan Hong (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Chan Hong won 7-6(2) 6-7(1) 6-4 in the quarter in Korea F2 back in 2016.
Yunseong Chung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-9 | 15-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 14-17 | 14-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-22 | 20-16 | 5-4 | 3-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-25 | 23-17 | 7-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-15 | 21-10 | 5-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 395, Chung reached the 2nd round after beating Chun Hsin Tseng 7-5 7-5.
In the 1st round, Chung had a good straight sets win against Hsin Tseng (7-5 7-5). During the match, Chung scored 84 points vs Hsin Tseng’s 70. Yunseong was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Regarding the service games, Chung scored just 1 ace in the match and he committed only 4 double faults. Yunseong Chung lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Chung put 60% of his first serves in, winning 75% (33/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (14/29) on the 2nd serve. Yunseong broke Hsin Tseng 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Chung has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 58% of his matches (239-172). 20-14 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Chung has an aggregate181-124 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
Chung’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Monastir.
Yunseong has a compiled 29-21 win-loss record in 2022, 20-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Seong Chan Hong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-28 | 24-15 | 11-11 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2024 | 28-27 | 21-20 | 7-7 | 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 |
Ranked no. 470, the Korean reached the 2nd round after defeating Suk Ann 6-2 6-2 and Li Tu 6-3 3-6 6-1.
In the 1st round, Seong defeated Tu (6-3 3-6 6-1). During the match Chan Hong scored 86 points vs Tu’s 71. The Korean was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Chan Hong recorded 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Seong Chan Hong was extremely effective on serve to win 74% (34/46) of his 1st serve and 65% (17/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Korean broke Tu 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Chan Hong’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Chiang Rai and M25 Harmon.
Seong has an aggregate 29-16 win-loss record in 2022, 25-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Chung | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 24 | 41 |
| Pts | 84-70 | 149-108 |
| Total Points | 154 | 257 |
| Winners | 33 | 57 |
| %Winners | 39% | 38% |
Chung played 1 match while Chan Hong competed in 2 matches. Chan Hong started his run from the qualifications while Chung had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Seong Chan Hong surrendered 1 set while Yunseong Chung hasn’t conceded a set so far. Chung has played 3 set(s) less than Chan Hong (2 vs 5). Therefore, Chung played 17 games less than Chan Hong. The Korean scored 33 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Korean managed to score 57 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Chung | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3.5 |
| 1st in | 44/73 | 74/123 |
| %1st in | 60% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 33/44 | 57/74 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 14/29 | 27/49 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 55% |
Chung fired 1 ace . Chan Hong also fired 7 aces (3.5 per match). Chung won 75% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Chan Hong won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Chung | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 9 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 9/18 |
| % Converted | 45% | 50% |
| Conceded | 6 | 7 |
| Saved | 3 | 4 |
| % Saved | 50% | 57% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 |
The Korean broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Korean conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Chan Hong broke his opponents 9 times with a 50% conversion rate. Chan Hong conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.
| Chung | |||
| R1 Hsin | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 24 | 24 | |
| pts | 84-70 | 84-70 | |
| Total points | 154 | 154 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 44/73 | 44/73 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 33/44 | 33/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/29 | 14/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/6 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Chan Hong | |||||
| Q1 Ann | Q3 Purcell | R1 Tu | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | 7-65 6-0 | 6-3 3-6 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 19 | 25 | 60 | |
| pts | 63-37 | – | 86-71 | 149-108 | |
| Total points | 100 | 0 | 157 | 257 | |
| Winners | 23 | 34 | 57 | ||
| %Winners | 37% | 0% | 40% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||
| 1st in | 28/51 | / | 46/72 | 74/123 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 0% | 64% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 23/28 | / | 34/46 | 57/74 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 0% | 74% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/23 | / | 17/26 | 27/49 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 0% | 65% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 6 | 3 | 9 | ||
| Converted | 6/9 | / | 3/9 | 9/18 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 0% | 33% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 2 | 7 | ||
| Saved | 3/5 | 0/ | 1/2 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 60% | – | 50% | 110% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
Tennis Scores in Busan Challenger
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Joris De LooreDe Loore (7-5 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Max PurcellPurcell (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (7-62 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- John MillmanMillman – Marek GengelGengel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Yunseong ChungChung (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – H2H and prediction