Max Purcell and Ji Sung Nam will face off in the 1st round of the Seoul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 13. 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 Max Purcell who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Max Purcell is the pick to win this match.
Max Purcell -> 1.22
Ji Sung Nam -> 3.94
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Prediction and head to head Max Purcell vs. Ji Sung Nam
There is no head to head record between Max Purcell and Ji Sung Nam since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Max Purcell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-24 | 10-16 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-28 | 45-17 | 2-3 | 5-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-29 | 21-15 | 5-8 | 2-2 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-14 | 13-9 | 0-1 | 4-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-12 | 3-5 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 89, Purcell will start his run in the Seoul Challenger after he played his last match in Houston where he lost 7-6(5) 6-1 to Martin in the 2nd round on the 8th of April.
Max has an overall 29-6 win-loss record in 2023, 24-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Chennai Challenger where he defeated Nicolas Moreno De Alboran in the final 5-7 7-6(2) 6-4 and the Bengaluru Challenger where he beat James Duckworth in the final 3-6 7-5 7-6(5) and the Pune Challenger where he defeated Luca Nardi in the final 6-2 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 239-165 record. He has a positive 174-114 record on hard.
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2019. See his history.
Ji Sung Nam
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-13 | 10-8 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 15-20 | 13-15 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-19 | 24-13 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 4-7 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 560, Ji got to the 1st round after defeating Hiroki Moriya 6-2 6-2 and Shinji Hazawa 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Korean had a good straight sets win against Hazawa (6-2 6-4). During the match Sung Nam scored 68 points vs Hazawa’s 50. The Korean was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Sung Nam managed to score 8 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Ji Sung Nam was pretty effective on serve to win 80% (33/41) of his 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Korean broke Hazawa 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sung Nam started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 59% of the points he played.
The Korean has a compiled 5-7 win-loss record in 2023, 4-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2012. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-3 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Lloyd HarrisHarris (7-63 7-60) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Hyeon ChungChung – Jordan ThompsonThompson (4-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Tatsuma ItoIto (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
