Egor Agafonov and Ye Cong Mo will face off in the qualifications of the Jinan Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:30 am on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Egor Agafonov who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Egor Agafonov is the pick to win this match.
Egor Agafonov -> 1.59
Ye Cong Mo -> 2.26

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Prediction and head to head Egor Agafonov vs. Ye Cong Mo

This will be the 2^nd time that Egor Agafonov and Ye Cong Mo fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Agafonov (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Agafonov won 6-4 6-3 in the 1^st round in M15 Monastir back in January 2024.

Egor Agafonov

Ranked no. 561, Egor got to the qualifications after beating Hanyi Liu 7-6(3) 6-1.

In the qualifications, Agafonov had a good straight sets win against Liu (7-6³ 6-1). During the match, Agafonov scored 62 points vs Liu’s 49. Agafonov was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Regarding the service games, Agafonov recorded 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Egor Agafonov lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Agafonov put 51% of his first serves in, winning 83% (24/29) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. Agafonov broke Liu 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

Agafonov has a winning match record in the last 6 years having won 59% of his matches (94-66). 24-16 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Agafonov has a composed59-42 record in the last 6 years on hard.

Agafonov’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Monastir and M15 Aktobe.

The Russian has a compiled 32-20 win-loss record in 2024, 24-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Jinan Challenger

The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.

Ye Cong Mo

Ranked no. 694, the Chinese got to the qualifications after defeating Renlong Pang 6-1 6-2.

In the qualifications, Cong had a good straight sets win against Pang (6-1 6-2). During the match Cong scored 61 points vs Pang’s 35. Cong was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Cong made 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ye Cong Mo was very effective on serve to win 84% (26/31) of his 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ye broke Pang 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).

The Chinese’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Luan.

Cong has an overall 16-16 win-loss record in 2024, 13-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Agafonov	Cong
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	15
Pts	62-49	61-35
Total Points	111	96
Winners	24	26
%Winners	39%	43%

Both Agafonov and Cong played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Agafonov and Cong have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Agafonov played 5 games more than Cong. Agafonov scored 24 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Ye blasted 26 winners (43%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Agafonov	Cong
Aces	4	6
Avg per match	4	6
1st in	29/57	31/44
%1st in	51%	70%
1st pts	24/29	26/31
%1st pts	83%	84%
2nd pts	14/28	8/13
%2nd pts	50%	62%

Agafonov bagged 4 aces . Cong bagged 6 aces . Agafonov won 83% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Cong won 84% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Agafonov	Cong
Won	4	4
Converted	4/10	4/12
% Converted	40%	33%
Conceded	4	0
Saved	2	0
% Saved	50%	0%
Times Broken	2	0

Egor broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Russian lost his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Cong broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Ye was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Agafonov
	Q1 Liu	Total
Score	7-63 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	62-49	62-49
Total points	111	111
Winners	24	24
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	29/57	29/57
% 1st in	51%	51%
1st pts	24/29	24/29
% 1st pts	83%	83%
2nd pts	14/28	14/28
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/10	4/10
Converted %	40%	40%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	2/4	2
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	2	2

Cong
	Q1 Pang	Total
Score	6-1 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	61-35	61-35
Total points	96	96
Winners	26	26
%Winners	43%	43%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	31/44	31/44
% 1st in	70%	70%
1st pts	26/31	26/31
% 1st pts	84%	84%
2nd pts	8/13	8/13
% 2nd pts	62%	62%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/12	4/12
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

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