Emilio Gomez and Juncheng Shang will play each other in the 1st round of the Ilkley Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 5:30 pm on COURT 4. 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 Juncheng Shang who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Juncheng Shang is the pick to win this match.
Juncheng Shang -> 1.23
Emilio Gomez -> 3.84
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Prediction and head to head Emilio Gomez vs. Juncheng Shang
This will be the 2nd time that Emilio Gomez and Juncheng Shang square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Shang (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they squared off, Shang won 6-4 6-4 in the final in the Lexington Challenger back in 2022.
Emilio Gomez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-11 | 0-2 | 6-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-28 | 8-16 | 2-6 | 5-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-26 | 38-15 | 1-3 | 8-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-33 | 25-15 | 9-11 | 3-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-15 | 2-5 | 4-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 125, the Ecuadorian will start his run in the Ilkley Challenger after he played his last match at the Roland Garros where he lost 6-7(4) 6-3 6-3 to Olivo in the qualifications on the 22nd of May.
The Ecuadorian has a composed 12-17 win-loss record in 2023, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on grass.
Gomez’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Cleveland Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Gomez has an overall 399-290 record. He has a negative 0-5 record on grass.
Previously in the Ilkley Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019. See his history.
Juncheng Shang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 42-27 | 25-10 | 8-7 | 2-6 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-23 | 21-14 | 3-3 | 0-2 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-24 | 17-8 | 15-10 | 7-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-5 | 6-3 | 12-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 176, the Chinese reached the 1st round after defeating Stuart Parker 6-75 6-3 6-4 and Oleksii Krutykh 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Shang had a good straight sets win against Krutykh (6-1 6-4). During the match Shang scored 62 points vs Krutykh’s 41. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Shang fired 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Juncheng Shang was extremely effective on serve to win 85% (29/34) of his 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Chinese broke Krutykh 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Juncheng started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Shang has an overall 13-10 win-loss record in 2023, 5-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).
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