Mikalai Haliak and Ray Ho will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Zhangjiagang Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 am on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mikalai Haliak who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mikalai Haliak is the pick to win this match.
Mikalai Haliak -> 1.31
Ray Ho -> 3.22
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Prediction and head to head Mikalai Haliak vs. Ray Ho
This will be the 2nd time that Mikalai Haliak and Ray Ho play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Haliak (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Haliak won 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in M15 Monastir back in 2022.
Mikalai Haliak
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-34 | 16-22 | 5-7 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-28 | 12-9 | 25-13 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 26-25 | 5-7 | 15-12 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-11 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 16-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-7 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 575 (career-high), Mikalai got to the qualifications after beating Linghao Zhang 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Belarussian had a good straight sets win against Zhang (6-3 6-1). During the match, Haliak scored 58 points vs Zhang’s 40. Mikalai was very aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about the service games, Haliak scored just 1 ace in the course of the match and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults. Mikalai Haliak was very effective on serve to win 75% (18/24) 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. Haliak broke Zhang 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Haliak has a winning match record in the last 8 years having won 53% of his matches (188-169). 2-1 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Haliak has an aggregate42-53 record in the last 8 years on hard.
Haliak’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Baotou.
Mikalai has a composed 33-19 win-loss record in 2023, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger
The Belarussian has never competed in this tournament before.
Ray Ho
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-17 | 12-15 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-27 | 30-26 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-29 | 20-22 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-18 | 14-8 | 18-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 828, Ray got to the qualifications after defeating Toshihide Matsui 6-0 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Matsui (6-0 6-2). During the match Ho scored 57 points vs Matsui’s 33. Ray was extremely aggressive to blast 15 winners.
Talking about serving, Ho bagged 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ray Ho was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 79% (15/19) of his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ray broke Matsui 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Ray’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Monastir.
Ho has an aggregate 27-21 win-loss record in 2023, 27-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Haliak | Ho |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 14 |
| Pts | 58-40 | 57-33 |
| Total Points | 98 | 90 |
| Winners | 18 | 15 |
| %Winners | 31% | 26% |
Both Haliak and Ho played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Haliak and Ho have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Haliak played 2 games more than Ho. Mikalai scored 18 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Ho bagged 15 winners (26%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Haliak | Ho |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 8 |
| 1st in | 24/46 | 19/37 |
| %1st in | 52% | 51% |
| 1st pts | 18/24 | 15/19 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 16/22 | 13/18 |
| %2nd pts | 73% | 72% |
Haliak scored 1 ace . Ho also managed to score 8 aces . Haliak won 75% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 73% of the points. On the other side, Ho won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 72% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Haliak | Ho |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 5/8 |
| % Converted | 80% | 63% |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Haliak broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Haliak pretty solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Ho broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Ho was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Haliak | |||
| Q1 Zhang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 58-40 | 58-40 | |
| Total points | 98 | 98 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 24/46 | 24/46 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 18/24 | 18/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/22 | 16/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 73% | 73% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Ho | |||
| Q1 Matsui |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 57-33 | 57-33 | |
| Total points | 90 | 90 | |
| Winners | 15 | 15 | |
| %Winners | 26% | 26% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 19/37 | 19/37 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 15/19 | 15/19 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/18 | 13/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 72% | 72% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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