Hanwen Li and Zhe Li will square off in the 2^nd round of the Zhuhai Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zhe Li who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Zhe Li is the pick to win this match.
Zhe Li -> 1.49
Hanwen Li -> 2.49

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Prediction and head to head Hanwen Li vs. Zhe Li

This will be the 2^nd time that Hanwen Li and Zhe Li face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Hanwen Li (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Hanwen Li won 4-6 6-2 6-2 in the quarter in M25 Fuzhou back in July 2023.

Hanwen Li

Ranked no. 574, Hanwen Li reached the 2^nd round after defeating Aoran Wang 7-5 2-0 ret. and James McCabe 6-2 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Hanwen Li had a good straight sets win against McCabe (6-2 6-3). During the match, Hanwen Li scored 59 points vs McCabe’s 42. Hanwen Li was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about the service games, Hanwen Li scored just 1 ace throughout the match and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults. Hanwen Li was quite efficient on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 73% (16/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Hanwen broke McCabe 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).

Hanwen Li has a winning win-loss record in the last 4 years having won 52% of his matches (76-69). 16-8 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Hanwen Li has a composed57-44 win-loss record in the last 4 years on hard.

The Chinese’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Luzhou and M25 Fuzhou.

Hanwen has a compiled 21-17 win-loss record in 2023, 16-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Zhuhai Challenger

Hanwen has never competed in this tournament before.

Zhe Li

Ranked no. 709, Zhe got to the 2^nd round after defeating Mikalai Haliak 6-3 6-0.

In the 1^st round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Haliak (6-3 6-0). During the match Zhe Li scored 59 points vs Haliak’s 31. Zhe was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about serving, Zhe Li struck 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Zhe Li was quite efficient on serve to win 75% (21/28) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Zhe Li was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Haliak 5 times.

Zhe Li’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Tianjin.

Zhe Li has an overall 15-5 win-loss record in 2023, 15-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Hanwen Li	Zhe Li
Match played	2	1
Tot Set	5	2
Tot Games	31	15
Pts	108-79	59-31
Total Points	187	90
Winners	35	21
%Winners	32%	36%

Hanwen Li played 2 matches while Zhe Li competed in 1 match. Hanwen Li started his run from the qualifications while Zhe Li had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Hanwen Li has played 3 sets more than Zhe Li (5 vs 2). Therefore, Hanwen Li played 16 games more than Zhe Li. The Chinese scored 35 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese fired 21 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Hanwen Li	Zhe Li
Aces	9	4
Avg per match	4.5	4
1st in	40/87	28/51
%1st in	46%	55%
1st pts	35/40	21/28
%1st pts	88%	75%
2nd pts	31/47	13/23
%2nd pts	66%	57%

Hanwen Li blasted 9 aces (4.5 per match). Zhe Li made 4 aces . Hanwen Li won 88% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 66% of the points. On the other side, Zhe Li won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Hanwen Li	Zhe Li
Won	5	5
Converted	5/9	5/5
% Converted	56%	100%
Conceded	4	2
Saved	4	1
% Saved	100%	50%
Times Broken	0	1

Hanwen Li broke his opponents 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Hanwen quite strong on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 4 break points. Zhe Li broke his opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Hanwen Li
	Q3 Wang	R1 McCabe	Total
Score	7-5 2-0 ret.	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	14	17	31
pts	49-37	59-42	108-79
Total points	86	101	187
Winners	14	21	35
%Winners	29%	36%	32%
SERVE
Aces	8	1	9
Double Faults	2	0	2
1st in	14/39	26/48	40/87
% 1st in	36%	54%	46%
1st pts	14/14	21/26	35/40
% 1st pts	100%	81%	88%
2nd pts	15/25	16/22	31/47
% 2nd pts	60%	73%	66%
Breaks
Won	2	3	5
Converted	2/5	3/4	5/9
Converted %	40%	75%	56%
Conceded	1	3	4
Saved	1/1	3/3	4
Saved %	100%	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0	0

Zhe Li
	R1 Haliak	Total
Score	6-3 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	59-31	59-31
Total points	90	90
Winners	21	21
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	28/51	28/51
% 1st in	55%	55%
1st pts	21/28	21/28
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	13/23	13/23
% 2nd pts	57%	57%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/5	5/5
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	1/2	1
Saved %	50%	25%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Zhuhai Challenger

• Fajing SunSun – Jose StathamStatham (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Zhe LiLi – Mikalai HaliakHaliak (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Sergey FominFomin (3-6 6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo – Evan ZhuZhu (6-7⁴ 7-6⁵ 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Jason JungJung – Yan BaiBai (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Aliaksandr LiaonenkaLiaonenka – Luke SavilleSaville (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Colin SinclairSinclair – Leo BorgBorg (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Dominik PalanPalan – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (7-6⁰ 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Yi ZhouZhou – Ajeet RaiRai (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
• Hanwen LiLi – James McCabeMcCabe (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Stefanos SakellaridisSakellaridis – Xiaofei WangWang (7-6⁴ 6-0) – See score progression
• Robert StrombachsStrombachs – Tao MuMu (6-4 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Philip SekulicSekulic – Rigele TeTe (6-3 6-7³ 6-4) – See score progression
• Arthur WeberWeber – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (7-6⁴ 7-6²) – See score progression
• Alexander ZgirovskyZgirovsky – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (4-6 6-4 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Sergey FominFomin (3-6 6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Jason JungJung – Yan BaiBai (6-2 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Zhe LiLi – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Richard BerankisBerankis – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Fajing SunSun – Jason JungJung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aliaksandr LiaonenkaLiaonenka – Colin SinclairSinclair (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander ZgirovskyZgirovsky – Arthur WeberWeber (0-0) – H2H and prediction