Dane Sweeny and Zhe Li will square off in the 1st round of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 8. 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 Dane Sweeny who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dane Sweeny is the pick to win this match.
Dane Sweeny -> 1.82
Zhe Li -> 1.909
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Prediction and head to head Dane Sweeny vs. Zhe Li
There is no head to head record between Dane Sweeny and Zhe Li since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Dane Sweeny
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-11 | 14-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-33 | 25-23 | 10-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 62-26 | 59-22 | 3-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-23 | 19-15 | 1-1 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 256, Dane will start his run in the Matsuyama Challenger after he played his last match in the Sydney Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-2 to Sung Nam in the 2nd round on the 2nd of November.
The Australian has a compiled 34-31 win-loss record in 2023, 24-22 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Sweeny’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Canberra.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 143-104 record. He has a positive 117-72 record on hard.
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
Zhe Li
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2019 | 36-33 | 35-28 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 532, the Chinese got to the 1st round after beating Omni Kumar 6-3 7-64 and Tatsuma Ito 4-6 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications against Ito, Zhe recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-2). During the match Li scored 85 points vs Ito’s 76. Zhe was very aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Li recorded 7 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Zhe Li lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Li put 64% of his first serves in, winning 73% (38/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (14/29) on the 2nd serve. Zhe broke Ito 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Chinese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Li’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Tianjin.
The Chinese has a compiled 26-12 win-loss record in 2023, 26-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Zhe has never competed in this tournament before.
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