Mark Lajal and Jie Cui will square off in the 1st round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm 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 Mark Lajal who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mark Lajal is the pick to win this match.
Mark Lajal -> 1.26
Jie Cui -> 3.6
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Prediction and head to head Mark Lajal vs. Jie Cui
There is no head to head record between Mark Lajal and Jie Cui since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Mark Lajal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-9 | 6-3 | 6-4 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 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. 223, Mark will start his run in the Guangzhou Challenger after he played his last match in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Lloyd in the semifinal on the 27th of April.
Lajal has a composed 9-10 win-loss record in 2024, 7-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Mark’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Estonian has an overall 106-70 record. He has a positive 72-38 record on hard.
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
The Estonian has never competed in this tournament before.
Jie Cui
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18-12 | 17-9 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-27 | 36-26 | 5-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-23 | 36-21 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-10 | 10-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 443 (career-high), the Chinese got to the 1st round after defeating Kamil Majchrzak 6-2 6-3 and Blake Ellis 6-73 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications against Ellis, Jie recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-73 6-3 6-2). During the match Cui scored 93 points vs Ellis’s 79. Jie was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Cui managed to score 11 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Jie Cui was very effective on serve to win 74% (34/46) of his 1st serve and 63% (22/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Chinese broke Ellis 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Cui started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Cui’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Nakhon Si Thammarat.
Cui has a compiled 13-5 win-loss record in 2024, 13-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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