Robert Strombachs and Hanyi Liu will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Zhangjiagang Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Robert Strombachs who should win in 2 sets.
Robert Strombachs -> 1.161
Hanyi Liu -> 4.75
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Prediction and head to head Robert Strombachs vs. Hanyi Liu
There is no head to head record between Robert Strombachs and Hanyi Liu since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Robert Strombachs
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40-23 | 30-12 | 3-7 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2024 | 52-31 | 32-9 | 13-15 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2023 | 54-33 | 44-21 | 6-8 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 68-30 | 47-21 | 15-4 | 6-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-26 | 18-15 | 1-3 | 1-6 | 0-1 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 389, Strombachs will start his run in the Zhangjiagang Challenger after he played his last match in the Zhuhai Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-2 to Jung in the quarter on the 24th of August.
Strombachs has an overall 35-23 win-loss record in 2023, 25-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The German’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh and M25 Sanxenxo.
Talking about his overall career, The German has an overall 211-136 record. He has a positive 136-73 record on hard.
Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger
The German has never competed in this tournament before.
Hanyi Liu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-22 | 14-20 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 11-28 | 8-22 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-24 | 19-23 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-23 | 12-17 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 852, Liu got to the 1st round after beating Ivan Denisov 7-5 6-2 and Colin Sinclair 1-6 6-3 7-63.
In the qualifications against Sinclair, Hanyi recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-3 7-63).During the match Liu scored less points (2) than Sinclair. In fact, the world no. 389 won 93 points vs Sinclair’s. That means that Liu was more focused during the important points. Hanyi was exceptionally aggressive to blast 46 winners.
Talking about serving, Liu scored 11 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Hanyi Liu lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Liu put 62% of his first serves in, winning 73% (46/63) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (19/38) on the 2nd serve. Hanyi broke Sinclair twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Liu started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Liu’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Luzhou.
Liu has an aggregate 15-12 win-loss record in 2023, 14-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Zhangjiagang Challenger
- 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
- 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
- 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