Juncheng Shang and Lucas Gerch will face off in the 1st round of the Knoxville Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 5:30 pm on COURT 3. 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 Juncheng Shang who should win in 3 sets.
Juncheng Shang -> 1.48
Lucas Gerch -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Juncheng Shang vs. Lucas Gerch
There is no head to head record between Juncheng Shang and Lucas Gerch since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Juncheng Shang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6-8 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-27 | 25-10 | 8-7 | 2-6 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-23 | 21-14 | 3-3 | 0-2 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-24 | 17-8 | 15-10 | 7-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-5 | 6-3 | 12-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 195 (career-high), Shang will start his run in the Knoxville Challenger after he played his last match in the Charlottesville Challenger where he lost 4-6 6-1 7-6(8) to Eubanks in the quarter on the 4th of November.
Shang has a composed 40-22 win-loss record in 2022, 7-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Shang’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Naples,the Lexington Challenger and the Granby Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Juncheng has an overall 58-27 record. He has a positive 7-3 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Knoxville Challenger
Shang has never competed in this tournament before.
Lucas Gerch
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-17 | 6-4 | 20-11 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-23 | 0-2 | 35-16 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2023 | 32-20 | 2-2 | 26-14 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 57-29 | 11-3 | 36-20 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-27 | 8-8 | 20-18 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 328, the German will start his run in the Knoxville Challenger after he played his last match in the Charlottesville Challenger where he lost 6-3 7-5
to Shelton in the quarter on the 4th of November.The German has an overall 54-27 win-loss record in 2022, 7-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Gerch’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Cancun,M15 Ueberlingen and the Prague 3 Challenger.
In terms of his career, The German has an overall 196-124 record. He has a positive 18-10 record on indoor hard courts.
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Emilio NavaNava (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sekou BangouraBangoura – Luca MargaroliMargaroli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Ezekiel ClarkClark (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas GerchGerch – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer – Patrick MaloneyMaloney (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Theo ArribageArribage – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cayetano MarchMarch – Tristan MccormickMccormick (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Paul JubbJubb – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Keegan SmithSmith – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cannon KingsleyKingsley – Kiranpal PannuPannu (0-0) – H2H and prediction