Nuno Borges and Bu Yunchaokete will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Shenzhen 1 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nuno Borges who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nuno Borges is the pick to win this match.
Nuno Borges -> 1.46
Bu Yunchaokete -> 2.57
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Prediction and head to head Nuno Borges vs. Bu Yunchaokete
This will be the 2nd time that Nuno Borges and Bu Yunchaokete square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Borges (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Borges won 6-3 3-6 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Nottingham Challenger back in June 2023.
Nuno Borges
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-14 | 12-8 | 8-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-26 | 20-11 | 8-7 | 6-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-26 | 7-5 | 28-13 | 11-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 52-21 | 6-4 | 46-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 31-7 | 29-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 85, Nuno reached the 2nd round after defeating Steven Diez 7-5 6-2.
In the 1st round, Borges had a good straight sets win against Diez (7-5 6-2). During the match, Borges scored 68 points vs Diez’s 49. Borges was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Borges bagged 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Nuno Borges was extremely efficient on serve to win 85% (28/33) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Nuno broke Diez 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Borges has a fantastic record in the last 9 years having won 70% of his matches (239-103). 17-10 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Borges has a compiled113-39 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Monterrey Challenger where he beat Borna Gojo in the final 6-4 7-6(6) and the Phoenix Challenger where he beat Alexander Shevchenko in the final 4-6 6-2 6-1.
The Portuguese has a composed 26-22 win-loss record in 2023, 17-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger
Borges has never competed in this tournament before.
Bu Yunchaokete
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-8 | 15-5 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-23 | 27-15 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 87-28 | 84-24 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 186, Yunchaokete got to the 2nd round after beating James McCabe 3-6 6-3 2-0 ret..
In the 1st round against McCabe, Yunchaokete had a free pass after McCabe retired on a 3-6 6-3 2-0 . scoreline.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Seoul Challenger where he overcame Aleksandar Vukic in the final 7-6(4) 6-4.
Bu has an overall 32-20 win-loss record in 2023, 22-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Borges | Yunchaokete |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 |
| Pts | 68-49 | 55-51 |
| Total Points | 117 | 106 |
| Winners | 28 | 28 |
| %Winners | 41% | 51% |
Both Borges and Yunchaokete played 1 match. At the moment, Bu Yunchaokete dropped 1 set while Nuno Borges hasn’t lost a set so far. Borges has played 2 set(s) less than Yunchaokete (2 vs 4). However, it is interesting to notice that they played the same amount of games (20). The Portuguese scored 28 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese scored 28 winners (51%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Borges | Yunchaokete |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 6 |
| 1st in | 33/51 | 34/51 |
| %1st in | 65% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 28/33 | 28/34 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 7/17 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 41% |
Borges managed to score 5 aces . Yunchaokete managed to score 6 aces . Borges won 85% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Yunchaokete won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 41% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Borges | Yunchaokete |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/3 |
| % Converted | 75% | 100% |
| Conceded | 0 | 2 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Nuno broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Borges pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Yunchaokete broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Bu conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Borges | |||
| R1 Diez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 68-49 | 68-49 | |
| Total points | 117 | 117 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/51 | 33/51 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 28/33 | 28/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 12/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Yunchaokete | |||
| R1 McCabe |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 6-3 2-0 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 55-51 | 55-51 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 34/51 | 34/51 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 28/34 | 28/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/17 | 7/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 41% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWLWWWL Tennis Scores in Shenzhen 1 Challenger
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Colin SinclairSinclair (6-2 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Philip SekulicSekulic (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Fabio FogniniFognini (6-4 7-66) – See score progression
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Rigele TeTe (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Li TuTu (4-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Dominik PalanPalan (6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Pedro CachinCachin – Yan BaiBai (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Steven DiezDiez (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Zhe LiLi (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Alibek KachmazovKachmazov – Sheng TangTang (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Luke SavilleSaville (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Jie CuiCui – Qian SunSun (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-0 7-62) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-4 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – James McCabeMcCabe (3-6 6-3 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Colin SinclairSinclair (6-2 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Zhe LiLi (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Li TuTu (4-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Rigele TeTe (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Jie CuiCui – Qian SunSun (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Fabio FogniniFognini (6-4 7-6(6)) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Dominik PalanPalan (6-4 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Pedro CachinCachin – Yan BaiBai (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Jason JungJung (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Terence AtmaneAtmane (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Pedro CachinCachin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jie CuiCui – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (1-1) – H2H and prediction
