Taro Daniel and Li Tu will face off in the 2nd round of the Playford Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taro Daniel who should win in 2 sets.
Taro Daniel -> 1.25
Li Tu -> 3.65
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Prediction and head to head Taro Daniel vs. Li Tu
There is no head to head record between Taro Daniel and Li Tu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Taro Daniel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12-31 | 10-19 | 1-8 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-33 | 16-16 | 5-11 | 9-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-30 | 34-16 | 7-10 | 2-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-29 | 27-17 | 12-7 | 2-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-25 | 5-7 | 21-15 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 100, Taro reached the 2nd round after defeating Jacob Bradshaw 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Bradshaw (6-3 6-1). During the match, Daniel scored 65 points vs Bradshaw’s 46. The Japanese was pretty aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Daniel blasted 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Taro Daniel lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Daniel put 62% of his first serves in, winning 68% (19/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Bradshaw 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Daniel has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (363-279). 23-14 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Daniel has a compiled 142-110 match record in the last years on hard.
Taro has a compiled 34-28 win-loss record in 2023, 23-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Playford Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Li Tu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-23 | 11-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-28 | 37-21 | 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 |
Ranked no. 276, the Australian got to the 2nd round after defeating Zachary Viiala 7-5 6-2.
In the 1st round, Li had a good straight sets win against Viiala (7-5 6-2). During the match Tu scored 72 points vs Viiala’s 54. Tu was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Tu struck 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Li Tu lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Tu put 67% of his first serves in, winning 69% (27/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the 2nd serve. Li broke Viiala 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Tu’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir.
Li has an aggregate 31-27 win-loss record in 2023, 25-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Daniel | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 20 |
| Pts | 65-46 | 72-54 |
| Total Points | 111 | 126 |
| Winners | 19 | 27 |
| %Winners | 29% | 38% |
Both Daniel and Tu played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Daniel and Tu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Daniel played 4 games less than Tu. The Japanese scored 19 winners (29% of the total points). On the other side, Tu struck 27 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Daniel | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 8 |
| 1st in | 28/45 | 39/58 |
| %1st in | 62% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 19/28 | 27/39 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 12/17 | 12/19 |
| %2nd pts | 71% | 63% |
Daniel recorded 2 aces . Tu scored 8 aces . Daniel won 68% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Tu won 69% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Daniel | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 4/11 |
| % Converted | 56% | 36% |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 |
| Saved | 2 | 3 |
| % Saved | 67% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
The Japanese broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Taro conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Tu broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Li conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Daniel | |||
| R1 Bradshaw | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 65-46 | 65-46 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 29% | 29% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 28/45 | 28/45 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 19/28 | 19/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/17 | 12/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Tu | |||
| R1 Viiala | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 72-54 | 72-54 | |
| Total points | 126 | 126 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 39/58 | 39/58 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 27/39 | 27/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Tennis Scores in Playford Challenger
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Pavle MarinkovMarinkov (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Kai WehneltWehnelt (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Jayden CourtCourt (7-67 6-3) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Jacob BradshawBradshaw (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-77 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Philip SekulicSekulic – Blake EllisEllis (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Dane SweenySweeny (7-65 6-2) – See score progression
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Li TuTu – Zachary ViialaViiala (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Omar JasikaJasika (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Blake MottMott (5-7 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Arthur WeberWeber (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin LockLock – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-2) – H2H and prediction