Max Purcell and Fajing Sun will play each other in the 1st round of the Wuxi Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Max Purcell who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Max Purcell is the pick to win this match.
Max Purcell -> 1.23
Fajing Sun -> 3.88
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Prediction and head to head Max Purcell vs. Fajing Sun
There is no head to head record between Max Purcell and Fajing Sun since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Max Purcell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-19 | 6-11 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-28 | 45-17 | 2-3 | 5-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-29 | 21-15 | 5-8 | 2-2 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-14 | 13-9 | 0-1 | 4-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-12 | 3-5 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 84, the Australian will start his run in the Wuxi Challenger after he played his last match in the Guangzhou Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-3 to Holt in the 1st round on the 30th of April.
Max has a compiled 6-12 win-loss record in 2024, 3-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Purcell has an overall 268-199 record. He has a positive 198-136 record on hard.
Previously in the Wuxi Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Fajing Sun
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-13 | 14-9 | 7-2 | 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. 425, Fajing reached the 1st round after beating Akira Santillan 6-3 6-2 and Yusuke Takahashi 6-3 7-63.
In the qualifications, Sun had a good straight sets win against Takahashi (6-3 7-63). During the match Sun scored 81 points vs Takahashi’s 61. Fajing was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Sun recorded 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Fajing Sun was pretty effective on serve to win 80% (32/40) of his 1st serve and 67% (18/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Chinese broke Takahashi twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Fajing started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 59% of the points he played.
Fajing’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Creteil.
Fajing has an overall 9-9 win-loss record in 2024, 7-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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