Fajing Sun and Yusuke Takahashi will play each other in the qualifications of the Wuxi Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 2:00 pm on COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Fajing Sun who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Fajing Sun is the pick to win this match.
Fajing Sun -> 1.74
Yusuke Takahashi -> 2.02
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Prediction and head to head Fajing Sun vs. Yusuke Takahashi
This will be the 2nd time that Fajing Sun and Yusuke Takahashi face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Sun (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Sun won 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in M25 Monastir back in 2022.
Fajing Sun
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-11 | 12-8 | 3-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-27 | 25-22 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-22 | 32-18 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 427, Fajing got to the qualifications after defeating Akira Santillan 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Santillan (6-3 6-2). During the match, Sun scored 59 points vs Santillan’s 37. Fajing was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sun fired 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Fajing Sun was pretty effective on serve to win 86% (19/22) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sun broke Santillan 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Sun has winning record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (215-182). 6-7 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Sun has an overall 179-145 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Fajing’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Creteil.
Sun has an overall 8-9 win-loss record in 2024, 6-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Wuxi Challenger
Fajing has never competed in this tournament before.
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-10 | 12-9 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 33-28 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-22 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-23 | 18-21 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 450, the Japanese reached the qualifications after beating Ramkumar Ramanathan 7-63 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Ramanathan (7-63 7-5). During the match Takahashi scored 83 points vs Ramanathan’s 79. The Japanese was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Takahashi wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yusuke Takahashi lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Takahashi put 64% of his first serves in, winning 59% (32/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (20/31) on the 2nd serve. Takahashi broke Ramanathan 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
The Japanese has an aggregate 10-8 win-loss record in 2024, 9-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sun | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 25 |
| Pts | 59-37 | 83-79 |
| Total Points | 96 | 162 |
| Winners | 19 | 32 |
| %Winners | 32% | 39% |
Both Sun and Takahashi played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sun and Takahashi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sun played 8 games less than Takahashi. The Chinese scored 19 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Takahashi made 32 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sun | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 0 |
| 1st in | 22/39 | 54/85 |
| %1st in | 56% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 19/22 | 32/54 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 59% |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 20/31 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 65% |
Sun fired 2 aces . Takahashi didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Sun won 86% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Takahashi won 59% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sun | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 3/8 |
| % Converted | 50% | 38% |
| Conceded | 2 | 5 |
| Saved | 1 | 3 |
| % Saved | 50% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Sun broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Fajing conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Yusuke broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sun | |||
| Q1 Santillan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 59-37 | 59-37 | |
| Total points | 96 | 96 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 22/39 | 22/39 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 19/22 | 19/22 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 11/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Takahashi | |||
| Q1 Ramanathan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 83-79 | 83-79 | |
| Total points | 162 | 162 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 54/85 | 54/85 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 32/54 | 32/54 | |
| % 1st pts | 59% | 59% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/31 | 20/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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