Seong Chan Hong and Mark Lajal will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Busan Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.56
Seong Chan Hong -> 2.33
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Prediction and head to head Seong Chan Hong vs. Mark Lajal
This will be the 2nd time that Seong Chan Hong and Mark Lajal fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Chan Hong (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Chan Hong won 2-6 6-4 7-5 in the 2nd round in the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger back in January 2024.
Seong Chan Hong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-27 | 21-20 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-27 | 14-12 | 10-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-26 | 4-7 | 23-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-15 | 9-7 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-8 | 8-3 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 201, Seong got to the 2nd round after beating Otto Virtanen 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Chan Hong had a good straight sets win against Virtanen (6-2 6-2). During the match, Chan Hong scored 59 points vs Virtanen’s 39. The Korean was very aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Regarding the service games, Chan Hong recorded 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Seong Chan Hong was very efficient on serve to win 72% (18/25) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Korean broke Virtanen 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Chan Hong has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (236-138). 18-8 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Chan Hong has a composed 205-101 record in the last years on hard.
Seong’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger and the Bengaluru Challenger.
The Korean has a composed 18-10 win-loss record in 2024, 18-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
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, the Estonian got to the 2nd round after defeating Yunseong Chung 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Mark had a good straight sets win against Chung (6-3 6-2). During the match Lajal scored 62 points vs Chung’s 47. Mark was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Lajal wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Mark Lajal was quite efficient on serve to win 73% (22/30) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Lajal broke Chung 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Lajal has an overall 4-7 win-loss record in 2024, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Lajal has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Chan Hong | Lajal |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 17 |
| Pts | 59-39 | 62-47 |
| Total Points | 98 | 109 |
| Winners | 18 | 22 |
| %Winners | 31% | 35% |
Both Chan Hong and Lajal played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Chan Hong and Lajal have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Chan Hong played 1 game less than Lajal. Chan Hong scored 18 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Lajal blasted 22 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Chan Hong | Lajal |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 0 |
| 1st in | 25/43 | 30/51 |
| %1st in | 58% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 18/25 | 22/30 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 12/21 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 57% |
Chan Hong blasted 2 aces . Lajal didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Chan Hong won 72% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Lajal won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Chan Hong | Lajal |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 45% | 44% |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 50% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
The Korean broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Seong surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Estonian broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Lajal conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Chan Hong | |||
| R1 Virtanen |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 59-39 | 59-39 | |
| Total points | 98 | 98 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 25/43 | 25/43 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 18/25 | 18/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 12/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Lajal | |||
| R1 Chung |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 62-47 | 62-47 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 30/51 | 30/51 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 22/30 | 22/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 12/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Busan Challenger
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- James DuckworthDuckworth – Arthur FeryFery (4-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Philip SekulicSekulic (6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Dane SweenySweeny (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Paul JubbJubb (0-1) – H2H and prediction
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