James Duckworth and Li Tu will face off in the quarter of the Shenzhen 2 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11:00 am on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Duckworth who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, James Duckworth is the pick to win this match.
James Duckworth -> 1.56
Li Tu -> 2.35
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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Li Tu
This will be the 2nd time that James Duckworth and Li Tu square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Tu (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Tu won 6-4 6-3 in the semifinal in the Seoul Challenger back in 2022.
James Duckworth
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 42-29 | 23-14 | 2-3 | 7-7 | 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 got to the quarter after defeating Yusuke Takahashi 6-3 6-2 and Zhe Li 7-64 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Duckworth had a good straight sets win against Li (7-64 6-4). During the match, Duckworth scored 90 points vs Li’s 77. Duckworth was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, Duckworth struck 12 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, James Duckworth was quite effective on serve to win 79% (31/39) of his 1st serve and 57% (20/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke Li twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Duckworth has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (293-198). 34-21 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Duckworth has an aggregate 201-121 record in the last years on hard.
Duckworth’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Burnie Challenger,the Bengaluru Challenger and the Morelos Challenger.
Duckworth has a compiled 37-26 win-loss record in 2023, 34-21 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shenzhen 2 Challenger
Li Tu
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 39-26 | 33-19 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
2023 | 38-32 | 29-19 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
2022 | 50-25 | 34-16 | 15-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 41-7 | 28-4 | 0-0 | 13-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 285, the Australian reached the quarter after defeating Jose Statham 7-5 6-3 and Dominik Palan 6-3 3-6 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Li defeated Palan (6-3 3-6 6-2). During the match Tu scored 86 points vs Palan’s 70. Tu was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Tu fired 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Li Tu was exceptionally effective on serve to win 82% (31/38) of his 1st serve and 60% (21/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Li broke Palan 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Li’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir.
The Australian has an overall 30-26 win-loss record in 2023, 24-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Duckworth | Tu |
---|---|---|
Match played | 2 | 2 |
Tot Set | 4 | 5 |
Tot Games | 40 | 47 |
Pts | 148-110 | 161-137 |
Total Points | 258 | 298 |
Winners | 53 | 64 |
%Winners | 36% | 40% |
Both Duckworth and Tu played 2 matches. At the moment, Li Tu dropped 1 set while James Duckworth hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Duckworth has played 1 set(s) less than Tu (4 vs 5). Therefore, Duckworth played 7 games less than Tu. Duckworth scored 53 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian made 64 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Duckworth | Tu |
---|---|---|
Aces | 19 | 8 |
Avg per match | 9.5 | 4 |
1st in | 65/114 | 81/146 |
%1st in | 57% | 55% |
1st pts | 53/65 | 64/81 |
%1st pts | 82% | 79% |
2nd pts | 31/49 | 36/65 |
%2nd pts | 63% | 55% |
Duckworth blasted 19 aces (9.5 per match). Tu bagged 8 aces (4 per match). Duckworth won 82% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Tu won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Duckworth | Tu |
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Won | 6 | 7 |
Converted | 6/15 | 7/18 |
% Converted | 40% | 39% |
Conceded | 8 | 12 |
Saved | 6 | 9 |
% Saved | 75% | 75% |
Times Broken | 2 | 3 |
Duckworth broke his opponents 6 times with a 40% conversion rate. Duckworth lost his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Li broke his opponents 7 times with a 39% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
Duckworth | ||||
R1 Takahashi |
R2 Li |
Total | ||
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Score | 6-3 6-2 | 7-64 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 17 | 23 | 40 | |
pts | 58-33 | 90-77 | 148-110 | |
Total points | 91 | 167 | 258 | |
Winners | 22 | 31 | 53 | |
%Winners | 38% | 34% | 36% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 7 | 12 | 19 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
1st in | 26/40 | 39/74 | 65/114 | |
% 1st in | 65% | 53% | 57% | |
1st pts | 22/26 | 31/39 | 53/65 | |
% 1st pts | 85% | 79% | 82% | |
2nd pts | 11/14 | 20/35 | 31/49 | |
% 2nd pts | 79% | 57% | 63% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
Converted | 4/9 | 2/6 | 6/15 | |
Converted % | 44% | 33% | 40% | |
Conceded | 1 | 7 | 8 | |
Saved | 0/1 | 6/7 | 6 | |
Saved % | 0% | 86% | 43% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Tu | ||||
R1 Statham |
R2 Palan |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-5 6-3 | 6-3 3-6 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
Tot Games | 21 | 26 | 47 | |
pts | 75-67 | 86-70 | 161-137 | |
Total points | 142 | 156 | 298 | |
Winners | 33 | 31 | 64 | |
%Winners | 44% | 36% | 40% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
Double Faults | 6 | 2 | 8 | |
1st in | 43/73 | 38/73 | 81/146 | |
% 1st in | 59% | 52% | 55% | |
1st pts | 33/43 | 31/38 | 64/81 | |
% 1st pts | 77% | 82% | 79% | |
2nd pts | 15/30 | 21/35 | 36/65 | |
% 2nd pts | 50% | 60% | 55% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
Converted | 3/6 | 4/12 | 7/18 | |
Converted % | 50% | 33% | 39% | |
Conceded | 5 | 7 | 12 | |
Saved | 4/5 | 5/7 | 9 | |
Saved % | 80% | 71% | 76% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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