Brandon Holt and Li Tu will face off in the quarter of the Busan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Brandon Holt who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Brandon Holt is the pick to win this match.
Brandon Holt -> 1.54
Li Tu -> 2.4
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Prediction and head to head Brandon Holt vs. Li Tu
There is no head to head record between Brandon Holt and Li Tu since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Brandon Holt
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-15 | 27-13 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-24 | 14-16 | 1-2 | 7-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 52-21 | 48-17 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 3-6 | 2-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-5 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 208, the American got to the quarter after beating Emilio Gomez 6-2 6-2 and Luke Saville 6-3 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Brandon had a good straight sets win against Saville (6-3 6-3). During the match, Holt scored 60 points vs Saville’s 45. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Holt managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Brandon Holt was quite effective on serve to win 73% (24/33) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Saville 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Holt hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to conquer 61% of the points he played.
Holt has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 63% of his matches (122-73). 8-9 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Holt has an overall109-62 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
Holt has a composed 12-12 win-loss record in 2023, 8-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Brandon has never competed in this tournament before.
Li Tu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-15 | 14-10 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-32 | 29-19 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-25 | 34-16 | 15-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-7 | 28-4 | 0-0 | 13-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 241, Li got to the quarter after beating Bu Yunchaokete 6-4 6-4 and Altug Celikbilek 6-4 7-65.
In the 2nd round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Celikbilek (6-4 7-65). During the match Tu scored 85 points vs Celikbilek’s 76. The Australian was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Tu recorded 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Li Tu lost the serve once. Furthermore, Tu put 60% of his first serves in, winning 77% (34/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (14/29) on the 2nd serve. Li broke Celikbilek twice after converting 13% of his break points (2/15).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Tu hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Li’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Monastir.
Tu has an overall 13-9 win-loss record in 2023, 13-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Holt | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 34 | 43 |
| Pts | 119-76 | 146-128 |
| Total Points | 195 | 274 |
| Winners | 45 | 58 |
| %Winners | 38% | 40% |
Both Holt and Tu played 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Holt and Tu have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Holt played 9 games less than Tu. Brandon scored 45 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian struck 58 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Holt | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 13 |
| Avg per match | 3.5 | 6.5 |
| 1st in | 57/89 | 80/135 |
| %1st in | 64% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 45/57 | 58/80 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 22/32 | 31/55 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 56% |
Holt fired 7 aces (3.5 per match). Tu blasted 13 aces (6.5 per match). Holt won 79% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Tu won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Holt | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 5 |
| Converted | 8/14 | 5/18 |
| % Converted | 57% | 28% |
| Conceded | 5 | 3 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 80% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The American broke his opponents 8 times with a 57% conversion rate. Holt lost his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Tu broke his opponents 5 times with a 28% conversion rate. Tu conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
| Holt | ||||
| R1 Gomez |
R2 Saville |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 18 | 34 | |
| pts | 59-31 | 60-45 | 119-76 | |
| Total points | 90 | 105 | 195 | |
| Winners | 21 | 24 | 45 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 40% | 38% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 24/36 | 33/53 | 57/89 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 62% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 21/24 | 24/33 | 45/57 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 73% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/12 | 11/20 | 22/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 92% | 55% | 69% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | 8/14 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | – | 80% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Tu | ||||
| R1 Yunchaokete |
R2 Celikbilek |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | 6-4 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 23 | 43 | |
| pts | 61-52 | 85-76 | 146-128 | |
| Total points | 113 | 161 | 274 | |
| Winners | 24 | 34 | 58 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 8 | 5 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/62 | 44/73 | 80/135 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 60% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 24/36 | 34/44 | 58/80 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 77% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/26 | 14/29 | 31/55 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 48% | 56% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 2/15 | 5/18 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 13% | 28% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 0/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 0% | 25% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
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