Dominik Palan and Yan Bai will face off in the 2nd round of the Shanghai Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:30 pm 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 Yan Bai who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yan Bai is the pick to win this match.
Yan Bai -> 1.65
Dominik Palan -> 2.14
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Prediction and head to head Dominik Palan vs. Yan Bai
There is no head to head record between Dominik Palan and Yan Bai since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Dominik Palan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-15 | 8-13 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-29 | 34-28 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-26 | 38-24 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-22 | 15-9 | 9-8 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-12 | 8-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 301, Palan got to the 2nd round after beating Rio Noguchi 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Palan had a good straight sets win against Noguchi (6-2 6-4). During the match, Palan scored 67 points vs Noguchi’s 47. The Czech was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Palan recorded 6 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Dominik Palan was quite efficient on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 80% (12/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Czech broke Noguchi 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).
Palan has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 56% of his matches (141-111). 31-22 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Palan has a composed128-90 record in the last 6 years on hard.
The Czech’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Jakarta.
Dominik has an overall 31-22 win-loss record in 2023, 31-22 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shanghai Challenger
Dominik has never competed in this tournament before.
Yan Bai
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-9 | 23-8 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-16 | 42-13 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 6-4 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 679, Yan got to the 2nd round after beating Yusuke Takahashi 6-2 6-4, Alexey Zakharov 6-3 6-3 and Tao Mu 6-3 4-6 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Chinese defeated Mu (6-3 4-6 7-5). During the match Bai scored 110 points vs Mu’s 107. Bai was very aggressive to blast 51 winners.
Talking about serving, Bai scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yan Bai lost the serve 4 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Bai put 81% of his first serves in, winning 59% (51/86) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. Yan broke Mu 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Bai’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Tianjin.
Bai has a compiled 32-8 win-loss record in 2023, 30-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Palan | Bai |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 67 |
| Pts | 67-47 | 246-203 |
| Total Points | 114 | 449 |
| Winners | 26 | 105 |
| %Winners | 39% | 43% |
Palan played 1 match while Bai competed in 3 matches. Bai started his run from the qualifications while Palan had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Yan Bai lost 1 set while Dominik Palan hasn’t conceded a set so far. Palan has played 5 set(s) less than Bai (2 vs 7). Therefore, Palan played 49 games less than Bai. Dominik scored 26 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese managed to score 105 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Palan | Bai |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 1.7 |
| 1st in | 33/48 | 151/200 |
| %1st in | 69% | 76% |
| 1st pts | 26/33 | 105/151 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 12/15 | 27/49 |
| %2nd pts | 80% | 55% |
Palan struck 6 aces . Bai managed to score 5 aces (1.7 per match). Palan won 79% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 80% of the points. On the other side, Bai won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Palan | Bai |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 13 |
| Converted | 3/12 | 13/26 |
| % Converted | 25% | 50% |
| Conceded | 1 | 14 |
| Saved | 1 | 9 |
| % Saved | 100% | 64% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 5 |
The Czech broke his opponent 3 times with a 25% conversion rate. Palan extremely effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. Bai broke his opponents 13 times with a 50% conversion rate. Yan conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded.
| Palan | |||
| R1 Noguchi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 67-47 | 67-47 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 33/48 | 33/48 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 26/33 | 26/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/15 | 12/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 80% | 80% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/12 | 3/12 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Bai | |||||
| Q1 Takahashi |
Q3 Zakharov |
R1 Mu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | 6-3 6-3 | 6-3 4-6 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | 31 | 67 | |
| pts | 71-54 | 65-42 | 110-107 | 246-203 | |
| Total points | 125 | 107 | 217 | 449 | |
| Winners | 31 | 23 | 51 | 105 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 35% | 46% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 37/51 | 28/43 | 86/106 | 151/200 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 65% | 81% | 76% | |
| 1st pts | 31/37 | 23/28 | 51/86 | 105/151 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 82% | 59% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/14 | 11/15 | 10/20 | 27/49 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 73% | 50% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 4/9 | 6/10 | 13/26 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 44% | 60% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 2 | 11 | 14 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1/2 | 7/11 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 50% | 64% | 214% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yan BaiBai – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine BellierBellier – Terence AtmaneAtmane (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikalai HaliakHaliak – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
