Bu Yunchaokete and Hugo Grenier will fight against each other in the quarter of the Chicago Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 6:30 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 -> 1.52
Hugo Grenier -> 2.38
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Prediction and head to head Bu Yunchaokete vs. Hugo Grenier
This will be the 3rd time that Bu Yunchaokete and Hugo Grenier play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Yunchaokete and Grenier (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Yunchaokete won 6-2 6-1 in the semifinal in the Granby Challenger back in July 2024.
Bu Yunchaokete
32 - 14win/loss
65
65
LWLWWLWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 51-27 | 40-14 | 3-2 | 7-8 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-23 | 27-15 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 87-28 | 84-24 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 147 (career-high), Yunchaokete reached the quarter after defeating Michael Zheng 6-4 6-4 and Paul Jubb 6-3 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Yunchaokete had a good straight sets win against Jubb (6-3 6-3). During the match, Yunchaokete scored 55 points vs Jubb’s 38. The Chinese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Yunchaokete blasted 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Bu Yunchaokete was quite effective on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 59% (13/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Bu broke Jubb 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Chinese hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Yunchaokete has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 69% of his matches (156-69). 26-7 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Yunchaokete has an overall138-48 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 and the Granby Challenger where he overcame Terence Atmane in the final 6-3 6-7(7) 6-4.
The Chinese has a composed 31-14 win-loss record in 2024, 26-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Chicago Challenger
The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.
Hugo Grenier
24 - 22win/loss
155
95
LLWLWLWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-33 | 25-15 | 2-8 | 9-8 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-33 | 15-8 | 7-10 | 4-11 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-35 | 21-14 | 9-10 | 1-8 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-28 | 22-9 | 9-8 | 12-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-16 | 7-2 | 5-9 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 194, the French player got to the quarter after beating Bernard Tomic 6-2 6-4 and Nishesh Basavareddy 6-4 6-0.
In the 2nd round, Hugo had a good straight sets win against Basavareddy (6-4 6-0). During the match Grenier scored 59 points vs Basavareddy’s 37. Hugo was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Grenier managed to score 8 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Hugo Grenier lost the serve once. Furthermore, Grenier put 67% of his first serves in, winning 89% (25/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 36% (5/14) on the 2nd serve. Grenier broke Basavareddy 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Grenier hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 60% of the points he played.
Grenier’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Granby Challenger.
Grenier has an aggregate 24-21 win-loss record in 2024, 17-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Yunchaokete | Grenier |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 38 | 34 |
| Pts | 124-95 | 119-79 |
| Total Points | 219 | 198 |
| Winners | 48 | 53 |
| %Winners | 39% | 45% |
Both Yunchaokete and Grenier played 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Yunchaokete and Grenier have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Yunchaokete played 4 games more than Grenier. The Chinese scored 48 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Grenier fired 53 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Yunchaokete | Grenier |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 14 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 7 |
| 1st in | 61/106 | 63/97 |
| %1st in | 58% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 48/61 | 53/63 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 28/45 | 14/34 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 41% |
Yunchaokete fired 10 aces (5 per match). Grenier blasted 14 aces (7 per match). Yunchaokete won 79% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Grenier won 84% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 41% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Yunchaokete | Grenier |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 9 |
| Converted | 6/11 | 9/12 |
| % Converted | 55% | 75% |
| Conceded | 5 | 3 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 80% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Yunchaokete broke his opponents 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. Yunchaokete surrendered his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Hugo broke his opponents 9 times with a 75% conversion rate. The French player conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
| Yunchaokete | ||||
| R1 Zheng |
R2 Jubb |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 18 | 38 | |
| pts | 69-57 | 55-38 | 124-95 | |
| Total points | 126 | 93 | 219 | |
| Winners | 27 | 21 | 48 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 38% | 39% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 4 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 35/58 | 26/48 | 61/106 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 54% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 27/35 | 21/26 | 48/61 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 81% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/23 | 13/22 | 28/45 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 59% | 62% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 4/6 | 6/11 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 67% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2/3 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 67% | 84% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Grenier | ||||
| R1 Tomic |
R2 Basavareddy |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 16 | 34 | |
| pts | 60-42 | 59-37 | 119-79 | |
| Total points | 102 | 96 | 198 | |
| Winners | 28 | 25 | 53 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 42% | 45% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 8 | 14 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 35/55 | 28/42 | 63/97 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 67% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 28/35 | 25/28 | 53/63 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 89% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/20 | 5/14 | 14/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 36% | 41% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 5/6 | 9/12 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 83% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 0/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 0% | 25% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
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