Jie Cui and Henry Searle will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Porto Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 2:30 pm on COURT MCDONALD’S ANTAS. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Henry Searle who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Henry Searle is the pick to win this match.
Henry Searle -> 1.72
Jie Cui -> 2.04

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Prediction and head to head Jie Cui vs. Henry Searle

There is no head to head record between Jie Cui and Henry Searle since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Jie Cui

Ranked no. 358, Jie reached the qualifications after defeating Tiago Silva 6-4 6-0.

In the qualifications, Jie had a good straight sets win against Silva (6-4 6-0). During the match, Cui scored 70 points vs Silva’s 43. Jie was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about the service games, Cui fired 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Jie Cui lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Cui put 63% of his first serves in, winning 82% (27/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. Cui broke Silva 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Cui has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 58% of his matches (142-104). 24-11 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Cui has a composed124-87 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.

The Chinese’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Nakhon Si Thammarat and M25 Anning.

The Chinese has a composed 29-12 win-loss record in 2024, 24-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Porto Challenger

The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.

Henry Searle

Ranked no. 524, the Brit got to the qualifications after defeating Marek Gengel 6-1 6-4.

In the qualifications, Searle had a good straight sets win against Gengel (6-1 6-4). During the match Searle scored 54 points vs Gengel’s 34. Searle was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Searle scored 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Henry Searle was quite efficient on serve to win 82% (23/28) of his 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Henry broke Gengel 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Henry’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Nottingham.

Searle has a compiled 17-16 win-loss record in 2024, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Cui	Searle
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	17
Pts	70-43	54-34
Total Points	113	88
Winners	27	23
%Winners	39%	43%

Both Cui and Searle played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Cui and Searle have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Cui played 1 game less than Searle. Jie scored 27 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Brit bagged 23 winners (43%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Cui	Searle
Aces	4	8
Avg per match	4	8
1st in	33/52	28/41
%1st in	63%	68%
1st pts	27/33	23/28
%1st pts	82%	82%
2nd pts	9/19	9/13
%2nd pts	47%	69%

Cui scored 4 aces . Searle blasted 8 aces . Cui won 82% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Searle won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Cui	Searle
Won	5	4
Converted	5/8	4/5
% Converted	63%	80%
Conceded	6	0
Saved	5	0
% Saved	83%	0%
Times Broken	1	0

Cui broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Chinese lost his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Searle broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Searle was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Cui
	Q1 Silva	Total
Score	6-4 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	70-43	70-43
Total points	113	113
Winners	27	27
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	33/52	33/52
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	27/33	27/33
% 1st pts	82%	82%
2nd pts	9/19	9/19
% 2nd pts	47%	47%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/8	5/8
Converted %	63%	63%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	5/6	5
Saved %	83%	83%
Times Broken	1	1

Searle
	Q1 Gengel	Total
Score	6-1 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	54-34	54-34
Total points	88	88
Winners	23	23
%Winners	43%	43%
SERVE
Aces	8	8
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	28/41	28/41
% 1st in	68%	68%
1st pts	23/28	23/28
% 1st pts	82%	82%
2nd pts	9/13	9/13
% 2nd pts	69%	69%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/5	4/5
Converted %	80%	80%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

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