Tung-Lin Wu and James Kent Trotter will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Lexington Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 7. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tung-Lin Wu who should win in 3 sets.
Tung-Lin Wu -> 1.61
James Kent Trotter -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Tung-Lin Wu vs. James Kent Trotter
There is no head to head record between Tung-Lin Wu and James Kent Trotter since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Tung-Lin Wu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-18 | 18-17 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-28 | 21-21 | 4-5 | 3-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-24 | 26-14 | 6-3 | 2-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-26 | 10-10 | 2-8 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-8 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 293, Tung-Lin will start his run in the Lexington Challenger after he played his last match in the Chicago Challenger where he lost 6-4 2-6 6-1 to Jubb in the 1st round on the 23rd of July.
Wu has an aggregate 18-18 win-loss record in 2024, 18-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tung-Lin’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Bakersfield and the Gwangju Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Chinese has an overall 229-189 record. He has a positive 172-128 record on hard.
Previously in the Lexington Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2023. See his history.
James Kent Trotter
24 - 16win/loss
322
272
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-16 | 17-9 | 1-3 | 6-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-13 | 15-10 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-11 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 322, Kent reached the 1st round after beating Ozan Baris 6-1 6-4 and Yusuke Takahashi 4-6 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications against Takahashi, Kent recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 6-1). During the match Kent scored 81 points vs Takahashi’s 66. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Kent fired 9 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, James Kent Trotter was quite effective on serve to win 83% (33/40) of his 1st serve and 54% (21/39) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Takahashi 4 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
James 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 Tyler Challenger where he overcame Brandon Holt in the final 6-2 7-6(3).
The Japanese has a composed 24-16 win-loss record in 2024, 17-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lexington Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Lexington Challenger
- Omni KumarKumar – Charles BroomBroom (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emilio NavaNava – Luke SavilleSaville (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Learner TienTien – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur GeaGea – Brandon HoltHolt (6-3 1-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Liam DraxlDraxl – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (6-4 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Matias SotoSoto (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Joao FonsecaFonseca – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Li TuTu – Taha BaadiBaadi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aidan MchughMchugh – Hugo GrenierGrenier (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Liam DraxlDraxl – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Omni KumarKumar – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cannon KingsleyKingsley – Andres AndradeAndrade (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Ryan SeggermanSeggerman (0-0) – H2H and prediction