Bu Yunchaokete and Antoine Escoffier will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:30 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 Bu Yunchaokete who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Bu Yunchaokete is the pick to win this match.
Bu Yunchaokete -> 1.57
Antoine Escoffier -> 2.3

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Prediction and head to head Bu Yunchaokete vs. Antoine Escoffier

This will be the 3^rd time that Bu Yunchaokete and Antoine Escoffier play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Escoffier (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Escoffier won 6-4 6-0 in the 1^st round in the Lugano Challenger back in March 2024.

Bu Yunchaokete

Ranked no. 167, the Chinese reached the 2^nd round after beating Federico Cina 6-1 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Bu had a good straight sets win against Cina (6-1 6-4). During the match, Yunchaokete scored 60 points vs Cina’s 35. Yunchaokete was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about the service games, Yunchaokete scored 11 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults. Bu Yunchaokete was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 88% (23/26) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Chinese broke Cina 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Yunchaokete has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 69% of his matches (136-62). 8-4 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Yunchaokete has a compiled120-45 match record in the last 5 years on hard.

The Chinese’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Gwangju Challenger.

The Chinese has a compiled 11-7 win-loss record in 2024, 8-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger

Antoine Escoffier

Ranked no. 236, Escoffier reached the 2^nd round after defeating Rio Noguchi 6-1 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Escoffier had a good straight sets win against Noguchi (6-1 6-3). During the match Escoffier scored 61 points vs Noguchi’s 38. The French player was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Escoffier made 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Antoine Escoffier lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Escoffier put 61% of his first serves in, winning 77% (23/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Noguchi 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).

Escoffier’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Balma.

Escoffier has a composed 9-14 win-loss record in 2024, 2-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger

Antoine has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Yunchaokete	Escoffier
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	16
Pts	60-35	61-38
Total Points	95	99
Winners	23	23
%Winners	38%	38%

Both Yunchaokete and Escoffier played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Yunchaokete and Escoffier have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Yunchaokete played 1 game more than Escoffier. The Chinese scored 23 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Antoine scored 23 winners (38%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Yunchaokete	Escoffier
Aces	11	4
Avg per match	11	4
1st in	26/44	30/49
%1st in	59%	61%
1st pts	23/26	23/30
%1st pts	88%	77%
2nd pts	11/18	9/19
%2nd pts	61%	47%

Yunchaokete recorded 11 aces . Escoffier struck 4 aces . Yunchaokete won 88% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Escoffier won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Yunchaokete	Escoffier
Won	4	6
Converted	4/7	6/10
% Converted	57%	60%
Conceded	2	7
Saved	2	5
% Saved	100%	71%
Times Broken	0	2

Bu broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Chinese pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 2 break points. The French player broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Escoffier conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.

Yunchaokete
	R1 Cina	Total
Score	6-1 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	60-35	60-35
Total points	95	95
Winners	23	23
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	11	11
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	26/44	26/44
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	23/26	23/26
% 1st pts	88%	88%
2nd pts	11/18	11/18
% 2nd pts	61%	61%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/7	4/7
Converted %	57%	57%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	2/2	2
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Escoffier
	R1 Noguchi	Total
Score	6-1 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	61-38	61-38
Total points	99	99
Winners	23	23
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	30/49	30/49
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	23/30	23/30
% 1st pts	77%	77%
2nd pts	9/19	9/19
% 2nd pts	47%	47%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/10	6/10
Converted %	60%	60%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	5/7	5
Saved %	71%	71%
Times Broken	2	2

Tennis Scores in Guangzhou Challenger

• Brandon HoltHolt – Max PurcellPurcell (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Adam WaltonWalton – Yi ZhouZhou (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Mark LajalLajal – Jie CuiCui (4-6 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Mattia BellucciBellucci – Li TuTu (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (6-2 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Dane SweenySweeny (0-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Omar JasikaJasika – Jiaji WangWang (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Maxime CressyCressy – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Alex BoltBolt – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (6-4 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Rigele TeTe – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Federico CinaCina (6-1 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Richard BerankisBerankis – James DuckworthDuckworth (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alex BoltBolt – Adam WaltonWalton (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rigele TeTe – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lloyd HarrisHarris – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Yan BaiBai (0-3) – H2H and prediction
• Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – (0-0) – H2H and prediction