Max Purcell and Seong Chan Hong will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Seoul Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am 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 Max Purcell who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Max Purcell is the pick to win this match.
Max Purcell -> 1.32
Seong Chan Hong -> 3.16
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Prediction and head to head Max Purcell vs. Seong Chan Hong
This will be the 2nd time that Max Purcell and Seong Chan Hong clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Purcell (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Purcell won 7-6(5) 6-0 in the qualifications in the Busan Challenger back in 2022.
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, Max got to the 2nd round after beating Ji Sung Nam 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Sung Nam (6-3 6-4). During the match, Purcell scored 71 points vs Sung Nam’s 48. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Purcell bagged 5 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Max Purcell was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 88% (23/26) of his 1st serve and 77% (17/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Sung Nam twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).
Purcell has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (240-165). 25-4 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Purcell has an aggregate175-114 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Chennai Challenger where he beat Nicolas Moreno De Alboran in the final 5-7 7-6(2) 6-4 and the Bengaluru Challenger where he overcame James Duckworth in the final 3-6 7-5 7-6(5) and the Pune Challenger where he beat Luca Nardi in the final 6-2 6-3.
Purcell has an aggregate 30-6 win-loss record in 2023, 25-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Seong Chan Hong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-21 | 19-16 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-27 | 14-12 | 10-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-26 | 4-7 | 23-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-15 | 9-7 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-8 | 8-3 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 194 (career-high), the Korean got to the 2nd round after defeating Tatsuma Ito 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Chan Hong had a good straight sets win against Ito (6-3 6-2). During the match Chan Hong scored 62 points vs Ito’s 41. The Korean was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Chan Hong struck 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Seong Chan Hong was quite efficient on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Chan Hong broke Ito 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Chan Hong’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger,the Rome Challenger and the Tallahassee Challenger.
Chan Hong has a composed 15-11 win-loss record in 2023, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Purcell | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 17 |
| Pts | 71-48 | 62-41 |
| Total Points | 119 | 103 |
| Winners | 23 | 26 |
| %Winners | 32% | 42% |
Both Purcell and Chan Hong played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Purcell and Chan Hong have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Purcell played 2 games more than Chan Hong. The Australian scored 23 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Chan Hong scored 26 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Purcell | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 7 |
| 1st in | 26/48 | 33/53 |
| %1st in | 54% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 23/26 | 26/33 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 17/22 | 13/20 |
| %2nd pts | 77% | 65% |
Purcell bagged 5 aces . Chan Hong made 7 aces . Purcell won 88% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 77% of the points. On the other side, Chan Hong won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Purcell | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/9 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 22% | 50% |
| Conceded | 0 | 3 |
| Saved | 0 | 3 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Purcell broke his opponent twice with a 22% conversion rate. Max pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Chan Hong broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Chan Hong was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Purcell | |||
| R1 Sung Nam |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 71-48 | 71-48 | |
| Total points | 119 | 119 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 26/48 | 26/48 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 23/26 | 23/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/22 | 17/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 77% | 77% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/9 | 2/9 | |
| Converted % | 22% | 22% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Chan Hong | |||
| R1 Ito |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 62-41 | 62-41 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/53 | 33/53 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 26/33 | 26/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 13/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Seoul Challenger
- Gabriel Diallo/Aleksandar VukicDiallo/Aleksandar Vukic – Anirudh Chandrasekar/N. Vijay Sundar PrashanthChandrasekar/N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (5-7 6-3 10-6) – See score progression
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Tatsuma ItoIto (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Yunseong ChungChung – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Jea Moon LeeMoon Lee (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Cem IlkelIlkel (6-72 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Emilio GomezGomez – Li TuTu (7-64 7-5) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Hyeon ChungChung (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Duckhee LeeLee (7-64 1-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (3-6 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-4 6-711 6-0) – See score progression
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Brandon HoltHolt (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Lloyd HarrisHarris (7-63 7-60) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Denis KudlaKudla (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Richard BerankisBerankis (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Emilio GomezGomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
