James Duckworth and Zhe Li will face off in the 2nd round of the Shenzhen 2 Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on CENTRE COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Duckworth who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, James Duckworth is the pick to win this match.
James Duckworth -> 1.32
Zhe Li -> 3.16
Click here to see the updated quotes and live streaming (only selected countries - USA excluded).
To be able to watch live streaming bet365, a funded account is required or you need to have placed a bet in the last 24 hours. 18+ BeGambleAware.
Here where top tennis events are broadcasted or streamed online (ATP, WTA).
At the challenger level, there will be free live streaming on Challenger TV.
Â
Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Zhe Li
This will be the 3rd time that James Duckworth and Zhe Li fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Li won 7-6(3) 6-3 in the 3rd round in the Jinan Challenger back in 2019.
James Duckworth
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-18 | 16-8 | 2-3 | 5-2 | 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 |
| 2020 | 11-10 | 9-4 | 1-2 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 144, the Australian reached the 2nd round after beating Yusuke Takahashi 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Duckworth had a good straight sets win against Takahashi (6-3 6-2). During the match, Duckworth scored 58 points vs Takahashi’s 33. James was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Duckworth blasted 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, James Duckworth was quite effective on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 79% (11/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Duckworth broke Takahashi 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Duckworth has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (292-198). 33-21 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Duckworth has a composed 200-121 record in the last years on hard.
The Australian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Burnie Challenger,the Bengaluru Challenger and the Morelos Challenger.
James has an aggregate 36-26 win-loss record in 2023, 33-21 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shenzhen 2 Challenger
Zhe Li
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1-3 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-13 | 26-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-14 | 22-13 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-6 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 581, Li got to the 2nd round after defeating Piotr Matuszewski 6-3 6-2, Jimmy Yang 6-1 6-3 and Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul 6-3 7-60.
In the 1st round, Zhe had a good straight sets win against Trongcharoenchaikul (6-3 7-60). During the match Li scored 79 points vs Trongcharoenchaikul’s 62. Zhe was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Li managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Zhe Li was pretty efficient on serve to win 78% (29/37) of his 1st serve and 68% (26/38) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Chinese broke Trongcharoenchaikul once after converting 25% of his break points (1/4).
Zhe’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Tianjin.
The Chinese has an overall 24-11 win-loss record in 2023, 24-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Duckworth | Li |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 55 |
| Pts | 58-33 | 212-146 |
| Total Points | 91 | 358 |
| Winners | 22 | 74 |
| %Winners | 38% | 35% |
Duckworth played 1 match while Li competed in 3 matches. Li started his run from the qualifications while Duckworth had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Duckworth has played 4 set(s) less than Li (2 vs 6). Therefore, Duckworth played 38 games less than Li. Duckworth scored 22 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Li managed to score 74 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Duckworth | Li |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 12 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 4 |
| 1st in | 26/40 | 90/179 |
| %1st in | 65% | 50% |
| 1st pts | 22/26 | 74/90 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 11/14 | 54/89 |
| %2nd pts | 79% | 61% |
Duckworth blasted 7 aces . Li managed to score 12 aces (4 per match). Duckworth won 85% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 79% of the points. On the other side, Li won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Duckworth | Li |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 10 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 10/18 |
| % Converted | 44% | 56% |
| Conceded | 1 | 11 |
| Saved | 0 | 9 |
| % Saved | 0% | 82% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
James broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Australian lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Zhe broke his opponents 10 times with a 56% conversion rate. Li conceded his serve twice and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded.
| Duckworth | |||
| R1 Takahashi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 58-33 | 58-33 | |
| Total points | 91 | 91 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 26/40 | 26/40 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 22/26 | 22/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/14 | 11/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 79% | 79% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Li | |||||
| Q1 Matuszewski |
Q3 Yang |
R1 Trongcharoenchaikul |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | 6-1 6-3 | 6-3 7-60 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 16 | 22 | 55 | |
| pts | 59-36 | 74-48 | 79-62 | 212-146 | |
| Total points | 95 | 122 | 141 | 358 | |
| Winners | 22 | 23 | 29 | 74 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 31% | 37% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 6 | 4 | 12 | |
| 1st in | 24/47 | 29/57 | 37/75 | 90/179 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | 49% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 22/24 | 23/29 | 29/37 | 74/90 | |
| % 1st pts | 92% | 79% | 78% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 15/28 | 26/38 | 54/89 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 54% | 68% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 5/8 | 1/4 | 10/18 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 63% | 25% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 6 | 3 | 11 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 5/6 | 3/3 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 83% | 100% | 233% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
LLWWLWWWLW
LWLL Tennis Scores in Shenzhen 2 Challenger
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (6-4 6-71 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yan BaiBai – Steven DiezDiez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Zhe LiLi (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Colin SinclairSinclair – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
