Yannick Hanfmann and James Duckworth will face off in the 1st round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:30 pm on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yannick Hanfmann who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yannick Hanfmann is the pick to win this match.
Yannick Hanfmann -> 1.54
James Duckworth -> 2.48

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Prediction and head to head Yannick Hanfmann vs. James Duckworth

This will be the 2nd time that Yannick Hanfmann and James Duckworth face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Hanfmann (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Hanfmann won 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in Singapore back in 2021.

Highlights Yannick Hanfmann vs James Duckworth – Singapore 23-February-2021

Yannick Hanfmann

Yannick Hanfmann

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Rank
103
High
45
LWLWWWWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 46-28 12-9 17-12 12-4 5-3 0-0
2024 24-33 8-11 12-15 2-3 2-4 0-0
2023 43-30 6-8 29-14 4-5 4-3 0-0
2022 34-26 4-3 21-16 7-4 2-3 0-0
2021 18-24 1-4 14-11 1-4 2-4 0-1

Ranked no. 53, the German will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Beijing where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Alcaraz in the 1st round on the 29th of September.

Hanfmann has an aggregate 40-25 win-loss record in 2023, 5-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The German’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Houston and Mallorca.

Talking about his overall career, Hanfmann has an overall 310-196 record. He has a positive 55-49 record on hard.

Previously in Shanghai

Hanfmann has never competed in this tournament before.

Shanghai
Hanfmann's Record

James Duckworth

James Duckworth

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Rank
87
High
46
LWWWWWWWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 46-34 25-20 6-4 10-4 5-6 0-0
2024 42-29 23-14 2-3 7-7 10-5 0-0
2023 51-28 43-21 1-3 5-2 2-2 0-0
2022 24-27 20-18 0-2 0-1 4-6 0-0
2021 36-24 15-9 1-2 12-9 8-4 0-0

Ranked no. 138, Duckworth got to the 1st round after defeating Mikalai Haliak 6-4 6-3 and James McCabe 7-66 6-2.

In the qualifications, James had a good straight sets win against McCabe (7-66 6-2). During the match Duckworth scored 66 points vs McCabe’s 60. Duckworth was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Duckworth fired 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. James Duckworth conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Duckworth put 55% of his first serves in, winning 69% (25/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 76% (22/29) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke McCabe twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Australian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 54% of the points he played.

Duckworth’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Burnie Challenger,the Bengaluru Challenger and the Morelos Challenger.

The Australian has a compiled 34-24 win-loss record in 2023, 31-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Shanghai
Duckworth's Record

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