Li Tu and Jacob Fearnley will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Chicago Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jacob Fearnley who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jacob Fearnley is the pick to win this match.
Jacob Fearnley -> 1.59
Li Tu -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Li Tu vs. Jacob Fearnley
This will be the 2nd time that Li Tu and Jacob Fearnley clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Tu (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Tu won 6-4 6-3 in the qualifications in Newport back in July 2024.
Li Tu
19 - 17win/loss
219
186
LLWWLWLLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-17 | 14-11 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-32 | 29-19 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-25 | 34-16 | 15-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-7 | 28-4 | 0-0 | 13-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 219, the Australian will start his run in the Chicago Challenger after he played his last match in Newport where he lost 6-1 7-6(4) to Spizzirri in the 1st round on the 16th of July.
Tu has an aggregate 19-16 win-loss record in 2024, 14-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tu’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Traralgon.
Talking about his overall career, Li has an overall 148-81 record. He has a positive 105-49 record on hard.
Previously in the Chicago Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022 and 2023. See his history.
Jacob Fearnley
20 - 3win/loss
225
225
WWWWWLWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-3 | 5-0 | 0-0 | 8-0 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 16-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 225 (career-high), Jacob got to the 1st round after defeating Cooper Williams 6-1 7-6(8) and Antoine Bellier 4-6 6-3 6-0.
In the qualifications against Bellier, Fearnley recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-0). During the match Fearnley scored 82 points vs Bellier’s 65. The Brit was exceptionally aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Fearnley managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Jacob Fearnley lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Fearnley put 70% of his first serves in, winning 78% (40/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (10/22) on the 2nd serve. Fearnley broke Bellier 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Jacob started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Nottingham 2 Challenger where he beat Charles Broom in the final 4-6 6-4 6-3.
The Brit has a compiled 19-3 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Chicago Challenger
The Brit has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWLWLWL Tennis Scores in Chicago Challenger
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Alex BoltBolt (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Arthur GeaGea (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Philip SekulicSekulic – Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Learner TienTien – Benjamin BonziBonzi (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Joao FonsecaFonseca – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Charles BroomBroom – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-74 6-2 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Bernard TomicTomic – Hugo GrenierGrenier (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Charles BroomBroom (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Paul JubbJubb (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – Andrew FentyFenty (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Micah BraswellBraswell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jacob FearnleyFearnley – Li TuTu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (0-0) – H2H and prediction
