Linang Xiao and Rio Noguchi will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Zhangjiagang Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:30 pm on CENTRAL COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rio Noguchi who should win in 2 sets.
Rio Noguchi -> 1.14
Linang Xiao -> 5.1
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Prediction and head to head Linang Xiao vs. Rio Noguchi
There is no head to head record between Linang Xiao and Rio Noguchi since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Linang Xiao
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21-23 | 14-16 | 0-1 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 17-21 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-27 | 38-25 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-16 | 30-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, the Chinese reached the 1st round after beating Yi Zhou 6-4 6-2 and Alexander Zgirovsky 7-64 7-67.
In the qualifications, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Zgirovsky (7-64 7-67). During the match, Xiao and Zgirovsky scored the same amount of points (89). However, the world no. was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Linang was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about the service games, Xiao struck 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Linang Xiao was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (33/45) of his 1st serve and 55% (24/44) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Chinese broke Zgirovsky twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Chinese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to win 53% of the points he played.
Xiao has a solid win-loss record in the last 3 years having won 65% of his matches (62-34). 30-16 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Xiao has an overall60-32 match record in the last 3 years on hard.
The Chinese’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Tianjin.
The Chinese has an aggregate 32-18 win-loss record in 2023, 30-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger
The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.
Rio Noguchi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-30 | 36-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-31 | 36-22 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-31 | 12-18 | 2-7 | 2-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-22 | 41-10 | 9-9 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-26 | 18-18 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 251, the Japanese will start his run in the Zhangjiagang Challenger after he played his last match in the Winnipeg Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-2 to Draper in the 1st round on the 15th of August.
The Japanese has a composed 10-19 win-loss record in 2023, 5-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, The Japanese has an overall 279-185 record. He has a positive 181-108 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Zhangjiagang Challenger
- Leonid SheyngezikhtSheyngezikht – Matthew Christopher RomiosChristopher Romios (6-4 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Hanyi LiuLiu – Colin SinclairSinclair (1-6 6-3 7-63) – See score progression
- Linang XiaoXiao – Alexander ZgirovskyZgirovsky (7-64 7-67) – See score progression
- Mikalai HaliakHaliak – Ray HoHo (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Yan BaiBai – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Jie CuiCui – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Yan BaiBai – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Jie CuiCui – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jose StathamStatham – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Richard BerankisBerankis – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yan BaiBai – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Luke SavilleSaville – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Li TuTu – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Nick ChappellChappell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fajing SunSun – Terence AtmaneAtmane (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evan ZhuZhu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikalai HaliakHaliak – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jie CuiCui – Jason JungJung (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Linang XiaoXiao (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hanyi LiuLiu – Robert StrombachsStrombachs (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leonid SheyngezikhtSheyngezikht – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur WeberWeber – Alafia AyeniAyeni (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Rigele TeTe (0-0) – H2H and prediction