Bu Yunchaokete and Philip Sekulic will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Granby Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6:00 pm on COURT CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Bu Yunchaokete who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Bu Yunchaokete is the pick to win this match.
Bu Yunchaokete -> 1.72
Philip Sekulic -> 2.04

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Prediction and head to head Bu Yunchaokete vs. Philip Sekulic

This will be the 2^nd time that Bu Yunchaokete and Philip Sekulic square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Yunchaokete (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Yunchaokete won 7-5 1-6 6-4 in the semifinal in the Wuxi Challenger back in May 2024.

Bu Yunchaokete

Ranked no. 174, the Chinese reached the 2^nd round after beating Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez 7-6(6) 7-5.

In the 1^st round, Yunchaokete had a good straight sets win against Pacheco Mendez (7-6⁶ 7-5). During the match, Yunchaokete scored 88 points vs Pacheco Mendez’s 82. Yunchaokete was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Regarding the service games, Yunchaokete scored 12 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Overall, Bu Yunchaokete was pretty effective on serve to win 71% (35/49) of his 1st serve and 59% (23/39) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Yunchaokete broke Pacheco Mendez twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

Yunchaokete has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 68% of his matches (150-69). 20-7 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Yunchaokete has a composed132-48 win-loss record in the last 5 years on hard.

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Wuxi Challenger where he overcame Egor Gerasimov in the final 6-4 6-1.

The Chinese has a compiled 25-14 win-loss record in 2024, 20-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Granby Challenger

Bu has never competed in this tournament before.

Philip Sekulic

Ranked no. 225 (career-high), the Australian got to the 2^nd round after defeating Kaichi Uchida 6-3 6-7(2) 6-1 and Bu Yunchaokete .

In the 1^st

round, The Australian defeated Uchida (6-3 6-7² 6-1). During the match Sekulic scored 101 points vs Uchida’s 79. Philip was very aggressive to blast 42 winners.

Talking about serving, Sekulic scored 14 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Philip Sekulic lost the serve twice and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Sekulic put 54% of his first serves in, winning 84% (42/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (21/43) on the 2nd serve. Sekulic broke Uchida 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).

The Australian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Wuxi Challenger and the Kachreti Challenger.

The Australian has an aggregate 21-20 win-loss record in 2024, 21-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Granby Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2023. See his history

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H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Yunchaokete	Sekulic
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	25	29
Pts	88-82	101-79
Total Points	170	180
Winners	35	42
%Winners	40%	42%

Both Yunchaokete and Sekulic played 1 match. At the moment, Philip Sekulic dropped 1 set while Bu Yunchaokete hasn’t conceded a set so far. Yunchaokete has played 1 set(s) less than Sekulic (2 vs 3). Therefore, Yunchaokete played 4 games less than Sekulic. The Chinese scored 35 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian made 42 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Yunchaokete	Sekulic
Aces	12	14
Avg per match	12	14
1st in	49/88	50/93
%1st in	56%	54%
1st pts	35/49	42/50
%1st pts	71%	84%
2nd pts	23/39	21/43
%2nd pts	59%	49%

Yunchaokete recorded 12 aces . Sekulic recorded 14 aces . Yunchaokete won 71% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Sekulic won 84% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 49% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Yunchaokete	Sekulic
Won	2	5
Converted	2/7	5/6
% Converted	29%	83%
Conceded	6	10
Saved	5	8
% Saved	83%	80%
Times Broken	1	2

The Chinese broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Yunchaokete conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. The Australian broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Philip conceded his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.

Yunchaokete
	R1 Pacheco	Total
Score	7-66 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	25	25
pts	88-82	88-82
Total points	170	170
Winners	35	35
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	12	12
Double Faults	8	8
1st in	49/88	49/88
% 1st in	56%	56%
1st pts	35/49	35/49
% 1st pts	71%	71%
2nd pts	23/39	23/39
% 2nd pts	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/7	2/7
Converted %	29%	29%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	5/6	5
Saved %	83%	83%
Times Broken	1	1

Sekulic
	R1 Uchida	Total
Score	6-3 6-72 6-1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	29	29
pts	101-79	101-79
Total points	180	180
Winners	42	42
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	14	14
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	50/93	50/93
% 1st in	54%	54%
1st pts	42/50	42/50
% 1st pts	84%	84%
2nd pts	21/43	21/43
% 2nd pts	49%	49%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/6	5/6
Converted %	83%	83%
Conceded	10	10
Saved	8/10	8
Saved %	80%	80%
Times Broken	2	2

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