Yibing Wu and Alexei Popyrin will square off in the qualifications of the Adelaide International 1 for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 10:00 am on COURT 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yibing Wu who should win in 3 sets.
Yibing Wu -> 1.66
Alexei Popyrin -> 2.13
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Prediction and head to head Yibing Wu vs. Alexei Popyrin
There is no head to head record between Yibing Wu and Alexei Popyrin since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Yibing Wu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25-10 | 23-8 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 9-5 | 7-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-17 | 5-7 | 3-5 | 9-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-7 | 20-5 | 10-2 | 10-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 116, the Chinese reached the qualifications after beating Ugo Humbert 6-3 7-61.
In the qualifications, Wu had a good straight sets win against Humbert (6-3 7-61). During the match, Wu scored 72 points vs Humbert’s 50. Wu was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Wu made 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Yibing Wu was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (32/42) of his 1st serve and 70% (16/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Chinese broke Humbert twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Wu has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 65% of his matches (93-49). 20-5 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Wu has a composed57-36 record in the last 5 years on hard.
Wu’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Orange Park,the Orlando Challenger,the Rome Challenger,the Indianapolis Challenger and the Seoul Challenger.
Yibing has an overall 40-7 win-loss record in 2022, 20-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Adelaide
The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexei Popyrin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-24 | 7-10 | 9-6 | 0-5 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-22 | 17-8 | 4-8 | 4-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-29 | 18-14 | 15-6 | 1-4 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-31 | 7-16 | 7-4 | 3-5 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-26 | 13-11 | 8-6 | 10-5 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 120, Alexei got to the qualifications after defeating Zhizhen Zhang 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, Popyrin had a good straight sets win against Zhang (6-2 6-3). During the match Popyrin scored 56 points vs Zhang’s 34. Alexei was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Popyrin struck 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Alexei Popyrin was pretty efficient on serve to win 88% (23/26) of his 1st serve and 81% (13/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Zhang 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Alexei’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Bordeaux Challenger.
Popyrin has a compiled 24-31 win-loss record in 2022, 7-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Wu | Popyrin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 17 |
| Pts | 72-50 | 56-34 |
| Total Points | 122 | 90 |
| Winners | 32 | 23 |
| %Winners | 44% | 41% |
Both Wu and Popyrin played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Wu and Popyrin have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Wu played 5 games more than Popyrin. Wu scored 32 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Alexei bagged 23 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Wu | Popyrin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 5 |
| 1st in | 42/65 | 26/42 |
| %1st in | 65% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 32/42 | 23/26 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 88% |
| 2nd pts | 16/23 | 13/16 |
| %2nd pts | 70% | 81% |
Wu scored 5 aces . Popyrin blasted 5 aces . Wu won 76% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Popyrin won 88% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 81% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Wu | Popyrin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 50% | 60% |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 |
| Saved | 3 | 0 |
| % Saved | 75% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Chinese broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Wu lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Alexei broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Alexei was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Wu | |||
| Q1 Humbert | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-61 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 72-50 | 72-50 | |
| Total points | 122 | 122 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 42/65 | 42/65 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 32/42 | 32/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/23 | 16/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Popyrin | |||
| Q1 Zhang | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 56-34 | 56-34 | |
| Total points | 90 | 90 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 26/42 | 26/42 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 23/26 | 23/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/16 | 13/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 81% | 81% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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