Max Purcell and Luke Saville will play each other in the 2nd round of the Gwangju Challenger for the 8th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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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 -> 1.21
Luke Saville -> 4.05
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Prediction and head to head Max Purcell vs. Luke Saville
This will be the 8th time that Max Purcell and Luke Saville play each other. The head to head is 4-3 for Saville (see full H2H stats), 4-3 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Purcell won 4-6 7-5 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Shanghai Challenger back in 2019.
Max Purcell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-19 | 6-11 | 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, the Australian reached the 2nd round after beating Ricardas Berankis 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Purcell had a good straight sets win against Berankis (6-3 6-2). During the match, Purcell scored 59 points vs Berankis’s 46. Max was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Regarding the service games, Purcell blasted 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Max Purcell lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Purcell put 65% of his first serves in, winning 73% (30/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (9/22) on the 2nd serve. Max was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Berankis 4 times.
Purcell has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (241-166). 26-5 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Purcell has an aggregate176-115 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
His best result of the current season was conquering 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 defeated 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.
Max has a compiled 31-7 win-loss record in 2023, 26-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
Luke Saville
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-15 | 10-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-26 | 28-18 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 14-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-11 | 18-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 479, Saville got to the 2nd round after defeating Woobin Shin 6-2 6-0, Tristan Schoolkate 6-1 6-0 and Peter Gojowczyk 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Saville had a good straight sets win against Gojowczyk (6-3 6-4). During the match Saville scored 65 points vs Gojowczyk’s 51. Saville was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Saville recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Luke Saville was pretty efficient on serve to win 71% (24/34) of his 1st serve and 71% (15/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Luke broke Gojowczyk 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Luke’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Swan Hill.
The Australian has a compiled 16-10 win-loss record in 2023, 10-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Purcell | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 46 |
| Pts | 59-46 | 170-100 |
| Total Points | 105 | 270 |
| Winners | 30 | 68 |
| %Winners | 51% | 40% |
Purcell played 1 match while Saville competed in 3 matches. Saville started his run from the qualifications while Purcell had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Purcell has played 4 set(s) less than Saville (2 vs 6). Therefore, Purcell played 29 games less than Saville. Purcell scored 30 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, Saville scored 68 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Purcell | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 2.7 |
| 1st in | 41/63 | 89/134 |
| %1st in | 65% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 30/41 | 68/89 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 9/22 | 30/45 |
| %2nd pts | 41% | 67% |
Purcell scored 5 aces . Saville made 8 aces (2.7 per match). Purcell won 73% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 41% of the points. On the other side, Saville won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Purcell | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 13 |
| Converted | 4/4 | 13/23 |
| % Converted | 100% | 57% |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 |
| Saved | 2 | 3 |
| % Saved | 67% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Purcell broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Purcell dropped his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Luke broke his opponents 13 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Purcell | |||
| R1 Berankis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 59-46 | 59-46 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 41/63 | 41/63 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 30/41 | 30/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/22 | 9/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 41% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Saville | |||||
| Q1 Shin |
Q3 Schoolkate |
R1 Gojowczyk |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-0 | 6-1 6-0 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 13 | 19 | 46 | |
| pts | 53-28 | 52-21 | 65-51 | 170-100 | |
| Total points | 81 | 73 | 116 | 270 | |
| Winners | 19 | 25 | 24 | 68 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 48% | 37% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 28/41 | 27/38 | 34/55 | 89/134 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 71% | 62% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 19/28 | 25/27 | 24/34 | 68/89 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 93% | 71% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/13 | 4/11 | 15/21 | 30/45 | |
| % 2nd pts | 85% | 36% | 71% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | 3/7 | 13/23 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | 43% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/0 | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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