Seong Chan Hong and Ergi Kirkin will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:00 pm on COURT 6. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Seong Chan Hong who should win in 2 sets.
Seong Chan Hong -> 1.36
Ergi Kirkin -> 2.96
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Prediction and head to head Seong Chan Hong vs. Ergi Kirkin
There is no head to head record between Seong Chan Hong and Ergi Kirkin since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Seong Chan Hong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-28 | 24-15 | 11-11 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2024 | 28-27 | 21-20 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-27 | 14-12 | 10-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-26 | 4-7 | 23-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-15 | 9-7 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 198, Chan Hong will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Davis Cup, Group C, Valencia where he lost 6-4 7-5 to Zapata Miralles in the Rubber 1 on the 17th of September.
Seong has an aggregate 22-27 win-loss record in 2023, 13-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Chan Hong’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger,the Rome Challenger and the Tallahassee Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Korean has an overall 212-122 record. He has a positive 179-85 record on hard.
Previously in Shanghai
Chan Hong has never competed in this tournament before.
Ergi Kirkin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-22 | 14-11 | 7-8 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 49-30 | 18-5 | 29-20 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-26 | 3-4 | 39-15 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-28 | 3-5 | 27-19 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-27 | 4-8 | 29-16 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 328, Ergi will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-2 to Kovalik in the 2nd round on the 20th of September.
Kirkin has a composed 45-20 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.Kirkin’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Doboj,M15 Belgrade and M25 Tainan.
In terms of his career, Kirkin has an overall 208-139 record. He has a positive 42-36 record on hard.
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin LockLock – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Steven DiezDiez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sumit NagalNagal – Luke SavilleSaville (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Colin SinclairSinclair – Li TuTu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Omar JasikaJasika – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Ergi KirkinKirkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fajing SunSun – Alex BoltBolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Alexey ZakharovZakharov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Arthur WeberWeber (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tao MuMu – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Miljan ZekicZekic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Jason JungJung (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Marek GengelGengel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Linang XiaoXiao – (0-0) – H2H and prediction