John Millman and Seong Chan Hong will face off in the quarter of the Busan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 3:30 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 John Millman who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, John Millman is the pick to win this match.
John Millman -> 1.21
Seong Chan Hong -> 4.2
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Prediction and head to head John Millman vs. Seong Chan Hong
There is no head to head record between John Millman and Seong Chan Hong since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
John Millman
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 5-5 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-27 | 13-15 | 3-6 | 2-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-27 | 6-9 | 7-7 | 8-8 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-13 | 10-6 | 1-3 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 135, John reached the quarter after defeating Dalibor Svrcina 6-3 6-4 and Marek Gengel 6-3 6-3.
In the 2nd round, John had a good straight sets win against Gengel (6-3 6-3). During the match, Millman scored 60 points vs Gengel’s 44. John was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about the service games, Millman bagged 4 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults. Overall, John Millman was quite effective on serve to win 74% (23/31) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke Gengel 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Millman hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Millman has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (282-207). 11-14 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Millman has an aggregate 164-109 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Millman’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Delray Beach.
Millman has an overall 18-25 win-loss record in 2022, 11-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Seong Chan Hong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-18 | 27-14 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-34 | 17-18 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-18 | 36-12 | 4-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-8 | 7-3 | 10-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 470, Chan Hong got to the quarter after defeating Suk Ann 6-2 6-2, Li Tu 6-3 3-6 6-1 and Yunseong Chung 6-3 7-5.
In the 2nd round, Chan Hong had a good straight sets win against Chung (6-3 7-5). During the match Chan Hong scored 70 points vs Chung’s 58. The Korean was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Chan Hong was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 6 double faults. Seong Chan Hong lost the serve 5 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Chan Hong put 55% of his first serves in, winning 59% (23/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (14/32) on the 2nd serve. Seong broke Chung 7 times after converting 88% of his break points (7/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Korean started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Chan Hong’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Chiang Rai and M25 Harmon.
Seong has a compiled 30-16 win-loss record in 2022, 26-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Millman | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 37 | 62 |
| Pts | 128-94 | 219-166 |
| Total Points | 222 | 385 |
| Winners | 40 | 80 |
| %Winners | 31% | 37% |
Millman played 2 matches while Chan Hong competed in 3 matches. Chan Hong started his run from the qualifications while Millman had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Seong Chan Hong lost 1 set while John Millman hasn’t dropped a set so far. Millman has played 3 set(s) less than Chan Hong (4 vs 7). Therefore, Millman played 25 games less than Chan Hong. John scored 40 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Seong scored 80 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Millman | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2.3 |
| 1st in | 66/104 | 113/194 |
| %1st in | 63% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 40/66 | 80/113 |
| %1st pts | 61% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 26/38 | 41/81 |
| %2nd pts | 68% | 51% |
Millman fired 4 aces (2 per match). Chan Hong blasted 7 aces (2.3 per match). Millman won 61% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Chan Hong won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Millman | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 10 | 16 |
| Converted | 10/17 | 16/26 |
| % Converted | 59% | 62% |
| Conceded | 11 | 14 |
| Saved | 6 | 6 |
| % Saved | 55% | 43% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 8 |
The Australian broke his opponents 10 times with a 59% conversion rate. John conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 55% of the break points that he conceded. Seong broke his opponents 16 times with a 62% conversion rate. Seong conceded his serve 8 times and he saved 43% of the break points that he conceded.
| Millman | ||||
| R1 Svrcina |
R2 Gengel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 18 | 37 | |
| pts | 68-50 | 60-44 | 128-94 | |
| Total points | 118 | 104 | 222 | |
| Winners | 17 | 23 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 25% | 38% | 31% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 35/54 | 31/50 | 66/104 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 62% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 17/35 | 23/31 | 40/66 | |
| % 1st pts | 49% | 74% | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/19 | 12/19 | 26/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 74% | 63% | 68% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 4 | 10 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 4/7 | 10/17 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 57% | 59% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 5 | 11 | |
| Saved | 2/6 | 4/5 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 80% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Chan Hong | ||||||
| Q1 Ann |
Q3 Purcell |
R1 Tu |
R2 Chung |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | 7-65 6-0 | 6-3 3-6 6-1 | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 19 | 25 | 21 | 81 | |
| pts | 63-37 | – | 86-71 | 70-58 | 219-166 | |
| Total points | 100 | 0 | 157 | 128 | 385 | |
| Winners | 23 | 34 | 23 | 80 | ||
| %Winners | 37% | 0% | 40% | 33% | 37% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | ||
| 1st in | 28/51 | / | 46/72 | 39/71 | 113/194 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 0% | 64% | 55% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 23/28 | / | 34/46 | 23/39 | 80/113 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 0% | 74% | 59% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/23 | / | 17/26 | 14/32 | 41/81 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 0% | 65% | 44% | 51% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 6 | 3 | 7 | 16 | ||
| Converted | 6/9 | / | 3/9 | 7/8 | 16/26 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 0% | 33% | 88% | 62% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 2 | 7 | 14 | ||
| Saved | 3/5 | 0/ | 1/2 | 2/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 60% | – | 50% | 29% | 70% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | ||
Head 2 Head
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