Mikalai Haliak and Yan Bai will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Shenzhen 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. 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 -> 1.58
Mikalai Haliak -> 2.27
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Prediction and head to head Mikalai Haliak vs. Yan Bai
There is no head to head record between Mikalai Haliak and Yan Bai since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Mikalai Haliak
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-34 | 16-22 | 5-7 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-28 | 12-9 | 25-13 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 26-25 | 5-7 | 15-12 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-11 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 16-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-7 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 379 (career-high), Mikalai got to the qualifications after defeating Yaojie Zeng 6-3 7-66.
In the qualifications, Haliak had a good straight sets win against Zeng (6-3 7-66). During the match, Haliak scored 72 points vs Zeng’s 56. Mikalai was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Haliak struck 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Mikalai Haliak was pretty effective on serve to win 91% (32/35) of his 1st serve and 55% (16/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Haliak broke Zeng twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Haliak has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 53% of his matches (197-174). 11-6 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Haliak has a compiled51-58 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
The Belarussian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Baotou and the Zhangjiagang Challenger.
Mikalai has a compiled 42-24 win-loss record in 2023, 11-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger
Haliak has never competed in this tournament before.
Yan Bai
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 52-21 | 47-19 | 4-1 | 1-1 | 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. 448, Yan got to the qualifications after beating Yi Zhou 6-4 3-6 7-67.
In the qualifications, Bai defeated Zhou (6-4 3-6 7-67).During the match Bai scored less points (2) than Zhou. In fact, the world no. 379 won 102 points vs Zhou’s. That means that Bai was more focused during the important points. The Chinese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 40 winners.
About the serving games, Bai struck 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yan Bai lost the serve 4 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Bai put 54% of his first serves in, winning 71% (40/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (22/47) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Zhou 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
The Chinese’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Tianjin and M25 Guiyang.
Bai has a compiled 39-10 win-loss record in 2023, 37-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Haliak | Bai |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 32 |
| Pts | 72-56 | 102-104 |
| Total Points | 128 | 206 |
| Winners | 32 | 40 |
| %Winners | 44% | 39% |
Both Haliak and Bai played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Yan Bai lost 1 set while Mikalai Haliak hasn’t lost a set so far. Haliak has played 1 set(s) less than Bai (2 vs 3). Therefore, Haliak played 10 games less than Bai. The Belarussian scored 32 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese blasted 40 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Haliak | Bai |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 4 |
| 1st in | 35/64 | 56/103 |
| %1st in | 55% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 32/35 | 40/56 |
| %1st pts | 91% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 22/47 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 47% |
Haliak managed to score 8 aces . Bai fired 4 aces . Haliak won 91% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Bai won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Haliak | Bai |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/3 | 4/11 |
| % Converted | 67% | 36% |
| Conceded | 2 | 10 |
| Saved | 1 | 6 |
| % Saved | 50% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Haliak broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. The Belarussian surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Chinese broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| Haliak | |||
| Q1 Zeng |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 72-56 | 72-56 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 35/64 | 35/64 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 32/35 | 32/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 91% | 91% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 16/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Bai | |||
| Q1 Zhou |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 3-6 7-67 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 32 | |
| pts | 102-104 | 102-104 | |
| Total points | 206 | 206 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 56/103 | 56/103 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 40/56 | 40/56 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/47 | 22/47 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 6/10 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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