Adam Walton and Ji Sung Nam will square off in the 2nd round of the Taipei Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on SHOW COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Adam Walton who should win in 2 sets.
Adam Walton -> 1.151
Ji Sung Nam -> 4.95
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Prediction and head to head Adam Walton vs. Ji Sung Nam
There is no head to head record between Adam Walton and Ji Sung Nam since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Adam Walton
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-20 | 36-14 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-30 | 53-26 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-12 | 41-10 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 111 (career-high), Walton reached the 2nd round after defeating Yuta Shimizu 7-65 6-0.
In the 1st round, Adam had a good straight sets win against Shimizu (7-65 6-0). During the match, Walton scored 76 points vs Shimizu’s 53. Adam was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about the service games, Walton made 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Adam Walton was quite efficient on serve to win 72% (28/39) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Adam broke Shimizu 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Walton has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 68% of his matches (140-66). 32-14 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Walton has a compiled135-56 record in the last 6 years on hard.
His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Burnie 2 Challenger where he overcame Dane Sweeny in the final 6-2 7-6(4).
Walton has an overall 32-15 win-loss record in 2024, 32-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Taipei Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Ji Sung Nam
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-7 | 5-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 15-20 | 13-15 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-19 | 24-13 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 4-7 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 714, Sung Nam reached the 2nd round after beating Shintaro Imai 2-6 6-3 6-3, Kaito Uesugi 4-6 6-0 6-2 and Yunseong Chung 6-4 7-60.
In the 1st round, The Korean had a good straight sets win against Chung (6-4 7-60). During the match Sung Nam scored 70 points vs Chung’s 55. Sung Nam was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Sung Nam bagged 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Ji Sung Nam was very effective on serve to win 77% (33/43) of his 1st serve and 74% (14/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sung Nam broke Chung twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
The Korean has a composed 5-4 win-loss record in 2024, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Walton | Sung Nam |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 73 |
| Pts | 76-53 | 250-201 |
| Total Points | 129 | 451 |
| Winners | 28 | 99 |
| %Winners | 37% | 40% |
Walton played 1 match while Sung Nam competed in 3 matches. Sung Nam started his run from the qualifications while Walton had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Ji Sung Nam surrendered 2 sets while Adam Walton hasn’t dropped a set so far. Walton has played 6 set(s) less than Sung Nam (2 vs 8). Therefore, Walton played 54 games less than Sung Nam. Adam scored 28 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Sung Nam blasted 99 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Walton | Sung Nam |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 16 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 5.3 |
| 1st in | 39/60 | 138/223 |
| %1st in | 65% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 28/39 | 99/138 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 50/85 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 59% |
Walton bagged 2 aces . Sung Nam recorded 16 aces (5.3 per match). Walton won 72% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Sung Nam won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Walton | Sung Nam |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 13 |
| Converted | 4/10 | 13/26 |
| % Converted | 40% | 50% |
| Conceded | 3 | 22 |
| Saved | 2 | 15 |
| % Saved | 67% | 68% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 7 |
Walton broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Adam conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Ji broke his opponents 13 times with a 50% conversion rate. Ji conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 68% of the break points that he conceded.
| Walton | |||
| R1 Shimizu | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 76-53 | 76-53 | |
| Total points | 129 | 129 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 39/60 | 39/60 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 28/39 | 28/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 13/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Sung Nam | |||||
| Q1 Imai | Q3 Uesugi | R1 Chung | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 2-6 6-3 6-3 | 4-6 6-0 6-2 | 6-4 7-60 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 24 | 23 | 73 | |
| pts | 87-79 | 93-67 | 70-55 | 250-201 | |
| Total points | 166 | 160 | 125 | 451 | |
| Winners | 39 | 27 | 33 | 99 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 29% | 47% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | 8 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 54/89 | 41/72 | 43/62 | 138/223 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 57% | 69% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 39/54 | 27/41 | 33/43 | 99/138 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 66% | 77% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/35 | 19/31 | 14/19 | 50/85 | |
| % 2nd pts | 49% | 61% | 74% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 7 | 2 | 13 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 7/15 | 2/6 | 13/26 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 47% | 33% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 11 | 2 | 22 | |
| Saved | 6/9 | 8/11 | 1/2 | 15 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 73% | 50% | 190% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | |
Tennis Scores in Taipei Challenger
- 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
- 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
- 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