Max Purcell and Yu Hsiou Hsu will play each other in the 1st round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 8:00 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 Max Purcell who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Max Purcell is the pick to win this match.
Max Purcell -> 1.23
Yu Hsiou Hsu -> 4.2
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Prediction and head to head Max Purcell vs. Yu Hsiou Hsu
This will be the 5th time that Max Purcell and Yu Hsiou Hsu fight against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Purcell (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on hard.
The last time that they played, Purcell won 6-2 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Busan Challenger back in May 2023.
Max Purcell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-24 | 10-16 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-28 | 45-17 | 2-3 | 5-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-29 | 21-15 | 5-8 | 2-2 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-14 | 13-9 | 0-1 | 4-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-12 | 3-5 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 43 (career-high), Purcell will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Beijing where he lost 6-3 6-0 to Wolf in the qualifications on the 27th of September.
Max has an aggregate 51-23 win-loss record in 2023, 45-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Chennai Challenger where he beat Nicolas Moreno De Alboran in the final 5-7 7-6(2) 6-4 and the Bengaluru Challenger where he overcame James Duckworth in the final 3-6 7-5 7-6(5) and the Pune Challenger where he overcame Luca Nardi in the final 6-2 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Purcell has an overall 261-182 record. He has a positive 195-125 record on hard.
Previously in Shanghai
Max has never competed in this tournament before.
Yu Hsiou Hsu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18-13 | 18-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-30 | 38-25 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-21 | 30-15 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-24 | 47-18 | 5-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 53-23 | 49-16 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 183, Hsiou got to the 1st round after defeating Miljan Zekic 6-2 6-1 and Fajing Sun 6-71 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications against Sun, Hsiou recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-71 6-3 6-1). During the match Hsiou scored 104 points vs Sun’s 90. Yu was exceptionally aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Hsiou struck 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Yu Hsiou Hsu lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Hsiou put 62% of his first serves in, winning 69% (40/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (15/35) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Sun 7 times after converting 50% of his break points (7/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Chinese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Yu’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Tsukuba and M25 Kashiwa.
Yu has a compiled 26-15 win-loss record in 2023, 24-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
LLWWLWWLWW Tennis Scores in Shanghai
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Luke SavilleSaville (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Fajing SunSun (6-71 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-64 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Li TuTu (6-2 6-78 7-5) – See score progression
- Philip SekulicSekulic – Arthur WeberWeber (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-73 6-6 def.) – See score progression
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Dominik PalanPalan (7-66 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – James McCabeMcCabe (7-66 6-2) – See score progression
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Steven DiezDiez (7-62 6-2) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Benjamin LockLock (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Dane SweenySweeny – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-4 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Steven DiezDiez (7-6(2) 6-2) – See score progression
- Philip SekulicSekulic – Arthur WeberWeber (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Dominik PalanPalan (7-6(6) 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Fajing SunSun (6-7(1) 6-3 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Quentin HalysHalys (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marcos GironGiron – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Fabio FogniniFognini (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Terence AtmaneAtmane (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Richard GasquetGasquet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Sebastian OfnerOfner (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Andy MurrayMurray (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Rigele TeTe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Christian GarinGarin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Pedro CachinCachin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Taro DanielDaniel (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Laslo DjereDjere (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (1-1) – H2H and prediction
