Dane Sweeny and Yu Hsiou Hsu will play each other in the 2nd round of the Playford Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dane Sweeny who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dane Sweeny is the pick to win this match.
Dane Sweeny -> 1.666
Yu Hsiou Hsu -> 2.16
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Prediction and head to head Dane Sweeny vs. Yu Hsiou Hsu
This will be the 2nd time that Dane Sweeny and Yu Hsiou Hsu fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Hsiou (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Hsiou won 6-4 2-6 6-2 in the 2nd round in M25 Mildura back in 2020.
Dane Sweeny
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-15 | 14-11 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-33 | 25-23 | 10-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 62-26 | 59-22 | 3-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-23 | 19-15 | 1-1 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 240 (career-high), the Australian got to the 2nd round after beating Edward Winter 3-6 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round against Winter, The Australian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-2). During the match, Sweeny scored 81 points vs Winter’s 80. Dane was exceptionally aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about the service games, Sweeny struck 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Dane Sweeny lost the serve twice and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Sweeny put 58% of his first serves in, winning 64% (36/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (22/40) on the 2nd serve. Sweeny was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Winter 4 times.
Sweeny has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 62% of his matches (109-68). 59-18 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Sweeny has a compiled93-46 match record in the last 5 years on hard.
The Australian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Canberra,M15 Caloundra,M25 Darwin and M25 Cairns.
Dane has an aggregate 62-21 win-loss record in 2022, 59-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Yu Hsiou Hsu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-16 | 16-13 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-21 | 30-15 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-24 | 47-18 | 5-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 53-23 | 49-16 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 334, the Chinese reached the 2nd round after defeating Mukund Sasikumar 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Kumar Mukund (6-4 6-2). During the match Hsiou scored 71 points vs Kumar Mukund’s 53. The Chinese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Hsiou made 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Yu Hsiou Hsu was very efficient on serve to win 73% (27/37) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Yu broke Kumar Mukund 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Yu’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Sharm ElSheikh,M25 Quinta Do Lago,M25 Dallas and M25 Tay Ninh.
Yu has an aggregate 46-21 win-loss record in 2022, 39-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sweeny | Hsiou |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 18 |
| Pts | 81-80 | 71-53 |
| Total Points | 161 | 124 |
| Winners | 36 | 27 |
| %Winners | 44% | 38% |
Both Sweeny and Hsiou played 1 match. At the moment, Dane Sweeny lost 1 set while Yu Hsiou Hsu hasn’t lost a set so far. Sweeny has played 1 set more than Hsiou (3 vs 2). Therefore, Sweeny played 8 games more than Hsiou. Sweeny scored 36 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese recorded 27 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sweeny | Hsiou |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 6 |
| 1st in | 56/96 | 37/59 |
| %1st in | 58% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 36/56 | 27/37 |
| %1st pts | 64% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 22/40 | 12/22 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 55% |
Sweeny blasted 5 aces . Hsiou fired 6 aces . Sweeny won 64% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Hsiou won 73% of the points behind 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 | Sweeny | Hsiou |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 100% | 67% |
| Conceded | 11 | 4 |
| Saved | 9 | 3 |
| % Saved | 82% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
The Australian broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Australian lost his serve twice and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded. Yu broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sweeny | |||
| R1 Winter |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 81-80 | 81-80 | |
| Total points | 161 | 161 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 56/96 | 56/96 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 36/56 | 36/56 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/40 | 22/40 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 9/11 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 82% | 82% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Hsiou | |||
| R1 Kumar Mukund |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 71-53 | 71-53 | |
| Total points | 124 | 124 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 37/59 | 37/59 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 27/37 | 27/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 12/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Colin SinclairSinclair (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blake EllisEllis – Omar JasikaJasika (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marek GengelGengel – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Ajeet RaiRai (1-0) – H2H and prediction
