Li Tu and James McCabe will square off in the 1st round of the Gwangju Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 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 Li Tu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Li Tu is the pick to win this match.
Li Tu -> 1.46
James McCabe -> 2.59
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Prediction and head to head Li Tu vs. James McCabe
This will be the 3rd time that Li Tu and James McCabe clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Tu won 7-6(4) 6-1 in the qualifications in the Nottingham Challenger back in 2023.
Li Tu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-26 | 31-19 | 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 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 193, Li will start his run in the Gwangju Challenger after he played his last match in the Busan Challenger where he lost 7-6(3) 6-1 to Jubb in the 1st round on the 9th of April.
Li has an overall 13-5 win-loss record in 2024, 13-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Australian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Traralgon.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 142-70 record. He has a positive 104-44 record on hard.
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022 and 2023. See his history.
James McCabe
14 - 11win/loss
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LWLWWWLLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 53-33 | 45-26 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-27 | 24-14 | 2-6 | 1-3 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-27 | 30-19 | 9-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-5 | 17-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 364, James got to the 1st round after defeating Yi Zhou 7-5 6-1 and Rio Noguchi 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, McCabe had a good straight sets win against Noguchi (6-3 6-1). During the match McCabe scored 61 points vs Noguchi’s 44. McCabe was exceptionally aggressive to blast 13 winners.
Talking about serving, McCabe scored 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. James McCabe lost the serve 3 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, McCabe put 43% of his first serves in, winning 57% (13/23) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (16/31) on the 2nd serve. James broke Noguchi 7 times after converting 70% of his break points (7/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 58% of the points he played.
McCabe’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Traralgon and M25 Mildura.
The Australian has an aggregate 14-11 win-loss record in 2024, 10-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
McCabe has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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