Seong Chan Hong and Alibek Kachmazov will face off in the 2nd round of the Wuxi Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am 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 Seong Chan Hong who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Seong Chan Hong is the pick to win this match.
Seong Chan Hong -> 1.69
Alibek Kachmazov -> 2.09
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Prediction and head to head Seong Chan Hong vs. Alibek Kachmazov
There is no head to head record between Seong Chan Hong and Alibek Kachmazov since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Seong Chan Hong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-18 | 27-14 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-34 | 17-18 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-18 | 36-12 | 4-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-8 | 7-3 | 10-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 198, the Korean reached the 2nd round after defeating Illya Marchenko 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Korean had a good straight sets win against Marchenko (6-3 6-3). During the match, Chan Hong scored 64 points vs Marchenko’s 52. The Korean was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Chan Hong scored just 1 ace in the encounter and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults. Seong Chan Hong was quite effective on serve to win 74% (32/43) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Korean broke Marchenko 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Chan Hong has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (240-140). 22-10 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Chan Hong has a compiled 209-103 record in the last years on hard.
Chan Hong’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger,the Bengaluru Challenger and the Busan Challenger.
Chan Hong has a compiled 22-12 win-loss record in 2024, 22-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Wuxi Challenger
Seong has never competed in this tournament before.
Alibek Kachmazov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-15 | 8-6 | 6-4 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 49-31 | 24-14 | 9-6 | 14-10 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 49-21 | 18-11 | 9-5 | 22-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-20 | 6-8 | 3-6 | 27-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-11 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 269, Kachmazov reached the 2nd round after beating Luke Saville 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, Kachmazov had a good straight sets win against Saville (6-4 6-1). During the match Kachmazov scored 66 points vs Saville’s 45. Alibek was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Kachmazov fired 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Alibek Kachmazov was extremely effective on serve to win 89% (24/27) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alibek broke Saville 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Alibek’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Saint Dizier.
Alibek has a composed 13-10 win-loss record in 2024, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Chan Hong | Kachmazov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 17 |
| Pts | 64-52 | 66-45 |
| Total Points | 116 | 111 |
| Winners | 32 | 24 |
| %Winners | 50% | 36% |
Both Chan Hong and Kachmazov played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Chan Hong and Kachmazov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Chan Hong played 1 game more than Kachmazov. Chan Hong scored 32 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, Kachmazov made 24 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Chan Hong | Kachmazov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2 |
| 1st in | 43/62 | 27/47 |
| %1st in | 69% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 32/43 | 24/27 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 89% |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 11/20 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 55% |
Chan Hong bagged 1 ace . Kachmazov also blasted 2 aces . Chan Hong won 74% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Kachmazov won 89% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Chan Hong | Kachmazov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/8 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 38% | 57% |
| Conceded | 4 | 2 |
| Saved | 4 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The Korean broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. The Korean pretty effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 4 break points. The Russian broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Russian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Chan Hong | |||
| R1 Marchenko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 64-52 | 64-52 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 43/62 | 43/62 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 32/43 | 32/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 10/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kachmazov | |||
| R1 Saville |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 66-45 | 66-45 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 27/47 | 27/47 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 24/27 | 24/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| 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 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWWLWLLWW Tennis Scores in Wuxi Challenger
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Omar JasikaJasika (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Fajing SunSun (4-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Yi ZhouZhou (7-66 7-65) – See score progression
- Adam WaltonWalton – James McCabeMcCabe (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Moez EcharguiEchargui – Yan BaiBai (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Linang XiaoXiao – Hanwen LiLi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Alex BoltBolt – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (7-61 7-63) – See score progression
- Jie CuiCui – Mattia BellucciBellucci (2-6 7-65 6-2) – See score progression
- Remy BertolaBertola – Maxime CressyCressy (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Rigele TeTe – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-77 7-64 7-5) – See score progression
- Philip SekulicSekulic – Li TuTu (5-7 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Alibek KachmazovKachmazov – Luke SavilleSaville (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltHolt – Arthur FeryFery (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Yi ZhouZhou (7-6(6) 7-6(5)) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Linang XiaoXiao – Hanwen LiLi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Omar JasikaJasika (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Max PurcellPurcell – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Moez EcharguiEchargui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Remy BertolaBertola – Rigele TeTe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Alex BoltBolt (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Linang XiaoXiao – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Jie CuiCui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
