Nuno Borges and Bu Yunchaokete will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Shenzhen 1 Challenger for the 2^nd 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 2^nd 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 2^nd round in the Nottingham Challenger back in June 2023.

Nuno Borges

Ranked no. 85, Nuno reached the 2^nd round after defeating Steven Diez 7-5 6-2.

In the 1^st 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

Ranked no. 186, Yunchaokete got to the 2^nd round after beating James McCabe 3-6 6-3 2-0 ret..

In the 1^st 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

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