Tung-Lin Wu and Mark Lajal will square off in the 2nd round of the Little Rock Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on STADIUM COURT. 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 Mark Lajal who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mark Lajal is the pick to win this match.
Mark Lajal -> 1.74
Tung-Lin Wu -> 2.01
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Prediction and head to head Tung-Lin Wu vs. Mark Lajal
There is no head to head record between Tung-Lin Wu and Mark Lajal since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Tung-Lin Wu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-13 | 11-12 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-28 | 21-21 | 4-5 | 3-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-24 | 26-14 | 6-3 | 2-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-26 | 10-10 | 2-8 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-8 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 182, the Chinese got to the 2nd round after beating Bruno Kuzuhara 6-3 4-6 6-4.
In the 1st round, Tung-Lin defeated Kuzuhara (6-3 4-6 6-4).During the match, Wu scored less points (1) than Kuzuhara. In fact, the world no. 182 won 89 points vs Kuzuhara’s. That means that Wu was more focused during the important points. Tung-Lin was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about the service games, Wu bagged 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Tung-Lin Wu lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Wu put 64% of his first serves in, winning 65% (39/60) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (18/34) on the 2nd serve. Wu broke Kuzuhara 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Wu has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 56% of his matches (196-156). 10-9 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Wu has an aggregate143-99 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.
Tung-Lin’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger and the Tallahassee Challenger.
The Chinese has a compiled 14-13 win-loss record in 2023, 10-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
Mark Lajal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-12 | 8-7 | 0-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 25-16 | 5-2 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-24 | 35-12 | 2-6 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-7 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 311, Lajal reached the 2nd round after defeating Mitchell Krueger 6-2 7-63.
In the 1st round, The Estonian had a good straight sets win against Krueger (6-2 7-63). During the match Lajal scored 75 points vs Krueger’s 64. Lajal was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Lajal blasted 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Mark Lajal was very effective on serve to win 73% (32/44) of his 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Estonian broke Krueger 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Lajal’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Morelos Challenger and M25 Kursumlijska Banja.
Mark has an overall 24-11 win-loss record in 2023, 10-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
Lajal has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Wu | Lajal |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 29 | 21 |
| Pts | 89-90 | 75-64 |
| Total Points | 179 | 139 |
| Winners | 39 | 32 |
| %Winners | 44% | 43% |
Both Wu and Lajal played 1 match. At the moment, Tung-Lin Wu surrendered 1 set while Mark Lajal hasn’t lost a set so far. Wu has played 1 set more than Lajal (3 vs 2). Therefore, Wu played 8 games more than Lajal. Tung-Lin scored 39 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, The Estonian managed to score 32 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Wu | Lajal |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 6 |
| 1st in | 60/94 | 44/68 |
| %1st in | 64% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 39/60 | 32/44 |
| %1st pts | 65% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 18/34 | 13/24 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 54% |
Wu recorded 2 aces . Lajal bagged 6 aces . Wu won 65% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Lajal won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Wu | Lajal |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 3/7 |
| % Converted | 44% | 43% |
| Conceded | 7 | 2 |
| Saved | 5 | 1 |
| % Saved | 71% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Tung-Lin broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Wu lost his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Lajal broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Mark conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Wu | |||
| R1 Kuzuhara |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 4-6 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 29 | |
| pts | 89-90 | 89-90 | |
| Total points | 179 | 179 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 60/94 | 60/94 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 39/60 | 39/60 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/34 | 18/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Lajal | |||
| R1 Krueger |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 75-64 | 75-64 | |
| Total points | 139 | 139 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 44/68 | 44/68 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 32/44 | 32/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/24 | 13/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLWLWWWLWW Tennis Scores in Little Rock Challenger
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Skander MansouriMansouri (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Nathan PonwithPonwith – Christian LangmoLangmo (2-6 7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Adam WaltonWalton – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-4 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Michael ZhengZheng (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (7-62 6-2) – See score progression
- Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Marek GengelGengel (2-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Aidan MayoMayo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva – Maks KasnikowskiKasnikowski (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Evan ZhuZhu – Tristan BoyerBoyer (6-4 6-77 7-62) – See score progression
- Daniel MasurMasur – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Bruno KuzuharaKuzuhara (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Mark LajalLajal – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-2 7-63) – See score progression
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Nathan PonwithPonwith (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Daniel MasurMasur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evan ZhuZhu – Aziz DougazDougaz (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva – Adam WaltonWalton (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (0-0) – H2H and prediction
