Li Tu and Jose Statham will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Zhangjiagang Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:30 am on COURT 10 ( INDOOR ). In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Li Tu who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Li Tu is the pick to win this match.
Li Tu -> 1.37
Jose Statham -> 2.91
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Prediction and head to head Li Tu vs. Jose Statham
This will be the 2nd time that Li Tu and Jose Statham clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Statham (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Statham won 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in the Playford Challenger back in 2022.
Li Tu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-15 | 14-10 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-32 | 29-19 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-25 | 34-16 | 15-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-7 | 28-4 | 0-0 | 13-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 256, Tu got to the 2nd round after defeating Philip Sekulic 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Tu had a good straight sets win against Sekulic (6-3 6-4). During the match, Tu scored 68 points vs Sekulic’s 45. Tu was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Tu recorded 6 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Li Tu was very effective on serve to win 88% (30/34) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Tu broke Sekulic twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Tu has a solid match record in the last 4 years having won 68% of his matches (111-52). 14-8 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Tu has a compiled76-28 match record in the last 4 years on hard.
The Australian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Monastir.
The Australian has an aggregate 20-19 win-loss record in 2023, 14-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger
Tu has never competed in this tournament before.
Jose Statham
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-8 | 3-5 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-31 | 20-23 | 4-7 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-27 | 37-26 | 5-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-6 | 7-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 472, Statham got to the 2nd round after beating Hanwen Li 6-3 3-6 7-62.
In the 1st round, The Kiwi defeated Li (6-3 3-6 7-62). During the match Statham scored 84 points vs Li’s 81. Statham was exceptionally aggressive to blast 40 winners.
About the serving games, Statham blasted 16 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Jose Statham was pretty effective on serve to win 83% (40/48) of his 1st serve and 68% (26/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Kiwi was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Li once.
Statham has a composed 20-20 win-loss record in 2023, 16-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tu | Statham |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 31 |
| Pts | 68-45 | 84-81 |
| Total Points | 113 | 165 |
| Winners | 30 | 40 |
| %Winners | 44% | 48% |
Both Tu and Statham played 1 match. At the moment, Jose Statham conceded 1 set while Li Tu hasn’t lost a set so far. Tu has played 1 set(s) less than Statham (2 vs 3). Therefore, Tu played 12 games less than Statham. Li scored 30 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Jose struck 40 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tu | Statham |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 16 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 16 |
| 1st in | 34/50 | 48/86 |
| %1st in | 68% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 30/34 | 40/48 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 26/38 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 68% |
Tu fired 6 aces . Statham bagged 16 aces . Tu won 88% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Statham won 83% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tu | Statham |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 1 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 1/1 |
| % Converted | 50% | 100% |
| Conceded | 3 | 6 |
| Saved | 3 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Tu broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Li pretty solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 3 break points. The Kiwi broke his opponent once with a 100% conversion rate. Jose conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Tu | |||
| R1 Sekulic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 68-45 | 68-45 | |
| Total points | 113 | 113 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 34/50 | 34/50 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 30/34 | 30/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 11/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Statham | |||
| R1 Li |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 3-6 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 31 | |
| pts | 84-81 | 84-81 | |
| Total points | 165 | 165 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 16 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 48/86 | 48/86 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 40/48 | 40/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 26/38 | 26/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/1 | 1/1 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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WLLLLWLLLW Tennis Scores in Zhangjiagang Challenger
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Nick ChappellChappell (5-7 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Jose StathamStatham – Hanwen LiLi (6-3 3-6 7-62) – See score progression
- Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi – Jie CuiCui (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Li TuTu – Philip SekulicSekulic (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Robert StrombachsStrombachs – Hanyi LiuLiu (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Colin SinclairSinclair – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-3 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Fajing SunSun (4-6 7-61 7-69) – See score progression
- Stefanos SakellaridisSakellaridis – Evan ZhuZhu (7-5 7-66) – See score progression
- Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Alafia AyeniAyeni – Arthur WeberWeber (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
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