James Duckworth and Lloyd Harris will clash against each other in the final of the Shenzhen 1 Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Lloyd Harris who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Lloyd Harris is the pick to win this match.
Lloyd Harris -> 1.5
James Duckworth -> 2.47

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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Lloyd Harris

This will be the 2^nd time that James Duckworth and Lloyd Harris square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Lloyd (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Lloyd won 3-6 6-3 6-2 in the 1^st round in Atlanta back in 2023.

Highlights Lloyd Harris vs James Duckworth – Atlanta 24-July-2023

James Duckworth

Ranked no. 113, the Australian reached the final after beating Rigele Te 7-5 6-2, Antoine Escoffier 6-4 6-3, Mattia Bellucci 4-6 6-3 7-6⁴ and Remy Bertola 6-3 6-2.

In the semifinal, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Bertola (6-3 6-2). During the match, Duckworth scored 56 points vs Bertola’s 31. Duckworth was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Regarding the service games, Duckworth scored 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, James Duckworth was pretty efficient on serve to win 76% (22/29) of his 1st serve and 76% (13/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. James was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Bertola 4 times.

Overall Performance in this tournament

James has surrendered 1 set in this event to win 56% of the points he played.

Duckworth has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (287-185). 11-5 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Duckworth has an aggregate 206-114 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

The Australian’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Cleveland Challenger,the Busan Challenger and the Shenzhen 1 Challenger.

James has an overall 18-9 win-loss record in 2024, 11-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger

Lloyd Harris

Ranked no. 149, Lloyd reached the final after defeating Dane Sweeny 6-2 6-2, Yu Hsiou Hsu 6-4 6-4, Alibek Kachmazov 6-3 4-6 6-3 and Mark Lajal 6-2 6-4.

In the semifinal, Lloyd had a good straight sets win against Lajal (6-2 6-4). During the match Lloyd scored 68 points vs Lajal’s 49. Lloyd was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Talking about serving, Lloyd struck 13 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Lloyd Harris conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 5 break points. Furthermore, Lloyd put 65% of his first serves in, winning 85% (33/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. Lloyd broke Lajal 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Lloyd has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.

His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Gwangju Challenger where he beat Bu Yunchaokete in the final 6-2 3-6 6-4.

The South African has a compiled 15-9 win-loss record in 2024, 15-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger

The South African has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Duckworth	Lloyd
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	9	9
Tot Games	88	82
Pts	303-241	294-226
Total Points	544	520
Winners	126	126
%Winners	42%	43%

Both Duckworth and Lloyd played 4 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. James Duckworth surrendered 1 set, while Lloyd Harris surrendered 1 set. Talking about their workload, Duckworth and Lloyd have played the same amount of sets 9. However, Duckworth played 6 games more than Lloyd. James scored 126 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Harris made 126 winners (43%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Duckworth	Lloyd
Aces	35	50
Avg per match	8.8	12.5
1st in	156/283	158/236
%1st in	55%	67%
1st pts	126/156	126/158
%1st pts	81%	80%
2nd pts	75/127	41/78
%2nd pts	59%	53%

Duckworth blasted 35 aces (8.8 per match). Lloyd recorded 50 aces (12.5 per match). Duckworth won 81% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Lloyd won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Duckworth	Lloyd
Won	10	15
Converted	10/17	15/44
% Converted	59%	34%
Conceded	19	12
Saved	17	8
% Saved	89%	67%
Times Broken	2	4

The Australian broke his opponents 10 times with a 59% conversion rate. The Australian dropped his serve twice and he saved 89% of the break points that he conceded. The South African broke his opponents 15 times with a 34% conversion rate. Lloyd conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Duckworth
	R1 Te	R2 Escoffier	1/4 Bellucci	1/2 Bertola	Total
Score	7-5 6-2	6-4 6-3	4-6 6-3 7-64	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	3	2	9
Tot Games	20	19	32	17	88
pts	70-53	74-65	103-92	56-31	303-241
Total points	123	139	195	87	544
Winners	23	33	48	22	126
%Winners	33%	45%	47%	39%	42%
SERVE
Aces	8	11	10	6	35
Double Faults	2	2	4	2	10
1st in	27/59	41/82	59/96	29/46	156/283
% 1st in	46%	50%	61%	63%	55%
1st pts	23/27	33/41	48/59	22/29	126/156
% 1st pts	85%	80%	81%	76%	81%
2nd pts	20/32	20/41	22/37	13/17	75/127
% 2nd pts	63%	49%	59%	76%	59%
Breaks
Won	3	2	1	4	10
Converted	3/6	2/4	1/3	4/4	10/17
Converted %	50%	50%	33%	100%	59%
Conceded	1	11	5	2	19
Saved	1/1	11/11	4/5	1/2	17
Saved %	100%	100%	80%	50%	83%
Times Broken	0	0	1	1	2

Lloyd
	R1 Sweeny	R2 Hsiou	1/4 Kachmazov	1/2 Lajal	Total
Score	6-2 6-2	6-4 6-4	6-3 4-6 6-3	6-2 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	3	2	9
Tot Games	16	20	28	18	82
pts	61-41	70-55	95-81	68-49	294-226
Total points	102	125	176	117	520
Winners	26	28	39	33	126
%Winners	43%	40%	41%	49%	43%
SERVE
Aces	11	15	11	13	50
Double Faults	1	1	4	2	8
1st in	33/42	35/53	51/81	39/60	158/236
% 1st in	79%	66%	63%	65%	67%
1st pts	26/33	28/35	39/51	33/39	126/158
% 1st pts	79%	80%	76%	85%	80%
2nd pts	6/9	9/18	16/30	10/21	41/78
% 2nd pts	67%	50%	53%	48%	53%
Breaks
Won	4	4	4	3	15
Converted	4/12	4/13	4/12	3/7	15/44
Converted %	33%	31%	33%	43%	34%
Conceded	0	2	5	5	12
Saved	0/0	0/2	3/5	5/5	8
Saved %	–	0%	60%	100%	40%
Times Broken	0	2	2	0	4

Tennis Scores in Shenzhen 1 Challenger

• Yuta Shimizu/James Kent TrotterShimizu/James Kent Trotter – Aoran Wang/Yi ZhouWang/Yi Zhou (7-6⁵ 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings

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