Seong Chan Hong and Blake Ellis will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Taipei Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on SHOW 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 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Seong Chan Hong is the pick to win this match.
Seong Chan Hong -> 1.29
Blake Ellis -> 3.38

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Prediction and head to head Seong Chan Hong vs. Blake Ellis

This will be the 2^nd time that Seong Chan Hong and Blake Ellis clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Chan Hong (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Chan Hong won 3-6 7-5 6-3 in the quarter in Tokyo back in 2019.

Seong Chan Hong

Ranked no. 198, Chan Hong reached the 2^nd round after beating Moez Echargui 7-6⁷ 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Chan Hong had a good straight sets win against Echargui (7-6⁷ 6-2). During the match, Chan Hong scored 78 points vs Echargui’s 66. Seong was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about the service games, Chan Hong made 4 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults. Seong Chan Hong lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Chan Hong put 62% of his first serves in, winning 67% (31/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the 2nd serve. Seong broke Echargui 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Chan Hong has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (241-141). 23-11 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Chan Hong has an overall 210-104 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Seong’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger,the Bengaluru Challenger and the Busan Challenger.

The Korean has a compiled 23-13 win-loss record in 2024, 23-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Taipei Challenger

Seong has never competed in this tournament before.

Blake Ellis

Ranked no. 392, Blake got to the 2^nd round after beating Kai-I Wang 7-5 6-2, Colin Sinclair 6-3 7-6¹ and Tsung-Hao Huang 6-2 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Huang (6-2 6-4). During the match Ellis scored 68 points vs Huang’s 49. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Ellis blasted 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Blake Ellis lost the serve 3 times. Furthermore, Ellis put 69% of his first serves in, winning 66% (25/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. Ellis broke Huang 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).

The Australian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Mildura and M25 Swan Hill.

Blake has a composed 20-13 win-loss record in 2024, 14-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Chan Hong	Ellis
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	6
Tot Games	21	60
Pts	78-66	206-159
Total Points	144	365
Winners	31	90
%Winners	40%	44%

Chan Hong played 1 match while Ellis competed in 3 matches. Ellis started his run from the qualifications while Chan Hong had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Chan Hong has played 4 set(s) less than Ellis (2 vs 6). Therefore, Chan Hong played 39 games less than Ellis. Chan Hong scored 31 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian bagged 90 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Chan Hong	Ellis
Aces	4	15
Avg per match	4	5
1st in	46/74	123/182
%1st in	62%	68%
1st pts	31/46	90/123
%1st pts	67%	73%
2nd pts	16/28	37/59
%2nd pts	57%	63%

Chan Hong struck 4 aces . Ellis struck 15 aces (5 per match). Chan Hong won 67% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Ellis won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Chan Hong	Ellis
Won	4	11
Converted	4/6	11/17
% Converted	67%	65%
Conceded	6	10
Saved	4	7
% Saved	67%	70%
Times Broken	2	3

The Korean broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Korean dropped his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Australian broke his opponents 11 times with a 65% conversion rate. Blake conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded.

Chan Hong
	R1 Echargui	Total
Score	7-67 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	78-66	78-66
Total points	144	144
Winners	31	31
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	46/74	46/74
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	31/46	31/46
% 1st pts	67%	67%
2nd pts	16/28	16/28
% 2nd pts	57%	57%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	4/6	4
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	2	2

Ellis
	Q1 Wang	Q3 Sinclair	R1 Huang	Total
Score	7-5 6-2	6-3 7-61	6-2 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	20	22	18	60
pts	63-51	75-59	68-49	206-159
Total points	114	134	117	365
Winners	35	30	25	90
%Winners	56%	40%	37%	44%
SERVE
Aces	6	5	4	15
Double Faults	0	1	1	2
1st in	47/63	38/64	38/55	123/182
% 1st in	75%	59%	69%	68%
1st pts	35/47	30/38	25/38	90/123
% 1st pts	74%	79%	66%	73%
2nd pts	11/16	18/26	8/17	37/59
% 2nd pts	69%	69%	47%	63%
Breaks
Won	3	2	6	11
Converted	3/3	2/5	6/9	11/17
Converted %	100%	40%	67%	65%
Conceded	5	2	3	10
Saved	5/5	2/2	0/3	7
Saved %	100%	100%	0%	200%
Times Broken	0	0	3	3

Tennis Scores in Taipei Challenger

• Adam WaltonWalton – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (7-6⁵ 6-0) – See score progression
• Max PurcellPurcell – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-7³ 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Yunseong ChungChung (6-4 7-6⁰) – See score progression
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Bang Shuo YinShuo Yin (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Blake EllisEllis – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Brandon HoltHolt (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Remy BertolaBertola – Ray HoHo (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Moez EcharguiEchargui (7-6⁷ 6-2) – See score progression
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – James McCabeMcCabe (6-1 4-6 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Omar JasikaJasika (6-4 7-6⁸) – See score progression
• Arthur FeryFery – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Philip SekulicSekulic (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-6² 6-3) – See score progression
• Max PurcellPurcell – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-7(3) 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Remy BertolaBertola – Ray HoHo (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 7-6(4)) – See score progression
• Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Omar JasikaJasika (6-4 7-6(8)) – See score progression
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-6(2) 6-3) – See score progression
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – James McCabeMcCabe (6-1 4-6 7-6(4)) – See score progression
• Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Brandon HoltHolt (6-1 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (5-1) – H2H and prediction
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Adam WaltonWalton (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Li TuTu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Max PurcellPurcell – Remy BertolaBertola (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Blake EllisEllis – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-2) – H2H and prediction