Mark Lajal and Yunseong Chung will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Busan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mark Lajal who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mark Lajal is the pick to win this match.
Mark Lajal -> 1.71
Yunseong Chung -> 2.06
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Prediction and head to head Mark Lajal vs. Yunseong Chung
There is no head to head record between Mark Lajal and Yunseong Chung since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Mark Lajal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-30 | 18-14 | 0-3 | 15-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 25-16 | 5-2 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-24 | 35-12 | 2-6 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-7 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 211, Mark will start his run in the Busan Challenger after he played his last match in the Girona Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-2 to Elias in the 1st round on the 27th of March.
Mark has a compiled 3-7 win-loss record in 2024, 1-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Mark has an overall 100-67 record. He has a positive 66-35 record on hard.
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Lajal has never competed in this tournament before.
Yunseong Chung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-17 | 14-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-22 | 20-16 | 5-4 | 3-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-25 | 23-17 | 7-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-15 | 21-10 | 5-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 387, Yunseong got to the 1st round after defeating Stefanos Sakellaridis 1-6 6-2 6-3 and Hiroki Moriya 6-4 7-64.
In the qualifications, Yunseong had a good straight sets win against Moriya (6-4 7-64). During the match Chung scored 74 points vs Moriya’s 68. Yunseong was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Chung blasted 5 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yunseong Chung lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Chung put 54% of his first serves in, winning 60% (24/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 62% (21/34) on the 2nd serve. Chung broke Moriya 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Chung 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.
Chung has an overall 9-7 win-loss record in 2024, 9-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2019. See his history.
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