Max Purcell and Egor Gerasimov will face off in the 2^nd round of the Wuxi Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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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 -> 1.31
Egor Gerasimov -> 3.25

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Prediction and head to head Max Purcell vs. Egor Gerasimov

There is no head to head record between Max Purcell and Egor Gerasimov since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Max Purcell

Ranked no. 84, the Australian reached the 2^nd round after defeating Fajing Sun 4-6 6-1 6-1.

In the 1^st round against Sun, Max recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-1 6-1). During the match, Purcell scored 87 points vs Sun’s 71. Purcell was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about the service games, Purcell managed to score 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Max Purcell was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (29/40) of his 1st serve and 60% (21/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Max broke Sun 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).

Purcell has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (269-199). 4-9 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Purcell has an aggregate 199-136 record in the last years on hard.

Purcell has an overall 7-12 win-loss record in 2024, 4-9 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Wuxi Challenger

Max has never competed in this tournament before.

Egor Gerasimov

Ranked no. 321, the Belarussian got to the 2^nd round after defeating Hiroki Moriya 6-3 7-5.

In the 1^st round, The Belarussian had a good straight sets win against Moriya (6-3 7-5). During the match Gerasimov scored 69 points vs Moriya’s 59. Egor was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Gerasimov recorded 7 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Egor Gerasimov lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Gerasimov put 56% of his first serves in, winning 78% (28/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 32% (9/28) on the 2nd serve. Egor broke Moriya 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).

The Belarussian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Oeiras 1 Challenger.

Egor has a compiled 16-13 win-loss record in 2024, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Purcell	Gerasimov
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	24	21
Pts	87-71	69-59
Total Points	158	128
Winners	29	28
%Winners	33%	41%

Both Purcell and Gerasimov played 1 match. At the moment, Max Purcell conceded 1 set while Egor Gerasimov hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Purcell has played 1 set more than Gerasimov (3 vs 2). Therefore, Purcell played 3 games more than Gerasimov. The Australian scored 29 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Egor fired 28 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Purcell	Gerasimov
Aces	7	7
Avg per match	7	7
1st in	40/75	36/64
%1st in	53%	56%
1st pts	29/40	28/36
%1st pts	73%	78%
2nd pts	21/35	9/28
%2nd pts	60%	32%

Purcell recorded 7 aces . Gerasimov bagged 7 aces . Purcell won 73% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Gerasimov won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 32% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Purcell	Gerasimov
Won	5	6
Converted	5/9	6/10
% Converted	56%	60%
Conceded	4	6
Saved	3	3
% Saved	75%	50%
Times Broken	1	3

Purcell broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Australian lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Gerasimov broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Gerasimov conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Purcell
	R1 Sun	Total
Score	4-6 6-1 6-1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	24	24
pts	87-71	87-71
Total points	158	158
Winners	29	29
%Winners	33%	33%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	40/75	40/75
% 1st in	53%	53%
1st pts	29/40	29/40
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	21/35	21/35
% 2nd pts	60%	60%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/9	5/9
Converted %	56%	56%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

Gerasimov
	R1 Moriya	Total
Score	6-3 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	69-59	69-59
Total points	128	128
Winners	28	28
%Winners	41%	41%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	8	8
1st in	36/64	36/64
% 1st in	56%	56%
1st pts	28/36	28/36
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	9/28	9/28
% 2nd pts	32%	32%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/10	6/10
Converted %	60%	60%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	3/6	3
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	3	3

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