Nick Hardt and Fajing Sun will square off in the qualifications of the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT B. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nick Hardt who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nick Hardt is the pick to win this match.
Nick Hardt -> 1.65
Fajing Sun -> 2.15
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Prediction and head to head Nick Hardt vs. Fajing Sun
There is no head to head record between Nick Hardt and Fajing Sun since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Nick Hardt
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-24 | 6-6 | 32-17 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-28 | 11-9 | 10-16 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-25 | 18-6 | 28-16 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-19 | 9-6 | 35-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-11 | 6-6 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 374, the Dominican got to the qualifications after beating Credit Chaiyarin 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Nick had a good straight sets win against Chaiyarin (6-4 6-3). During the match, Hardt scored 63 points vs Chaiyarin’s 39. Nick was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Hardt scored just 1 ace throughout the encounter and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Nick Hardt was extremely efficient on serve to win 74% (23/31) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Hardt broke Chaiyarin 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Hardt has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 60% of his matches (183-123). 1-1 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Hardt has an aggregate65-41 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
The Dominican has a compiled 1-1 win-loss record in 2024, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger
Fajing Sun
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 51-27 | 42-23 | 7-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-27 | 25-22 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-22 | 32-18 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 435, the Chinese reached the qualifications after defeating Eric Vanshelboim 6-0 7-5.
In the qualifications, Sun had a good straight sets win against Vanshelboim (6-0 7-5). During the match Sun scored 75 points vs Vanshelboim’s 53. Fajing was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Sun scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Fajing Sun was very efficient on serve to win 71% (27/38) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Fajing broke Vanshelboim 5 times after converting 31% of his break points (5/16).
Sun has a composed 1-0 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Hardt | Sun |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 18 |
| Pts | 63-39 | 75-53 |
| Total Points | 102 | 128 |
| Winners | 23 | 27 |
| %Winners | 37% | 36% |
Both Hardt and Sun played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Hardt and Sun have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Hardt played 1 game more than Sun. Hardt scored 23 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Fajing recorded 27 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Hardt | Sun |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 31/47 | 38/60 |
| %1st in | 66% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 23/31 | 27/38 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 12/22 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 55% |
Hardt recorded 1 ace . Sun also fired 1 ace . Hardt won 74% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Sun won 71% 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 | Hardt | Sun |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/16 |
| % Converted | 71% | 31% |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 |
| Saved | 1 | 3 |
| % Saved | 33% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Nick broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Dominican dropped his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Sun broke his opponent 5 times with a 31% conversion rate. Fajing conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Hardt | |||
| Q1 Chaiyarin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 63-39 | 63-39 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 31/47 | 31/47 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 23/31 | 23/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Sun | |||
| Q1 Vanshelboim |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 75-53 | 75-53 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 38/60 | 38/60 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 27/38 | 27/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 12/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/16 | 5/16 | |
| Converted % | 31% | 31% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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