Ji Sung Nam and Keegan Smith will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Jinan Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Keegan Smith who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Keegan Smith is the pick to win this match.
Keegan Smith -> 1.87
Ji Sung Nam -> 1.87

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Prediction and head to head Ji Sung Nam vs. Keegan Smith

There is no head to head record between Ji Sung Nam and Keegan Smith since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Ji Sung Nam

Ranked no. 628, the Korean got to the 2^nd round after defeating Zekai Li 6-2 6-2, Maxim Zhukov 6-3 6-4 and Dominik Palan 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Ji defeated Palan (6-3 6-7⁵ 6-3). During the match, Sung Nam scored 109 points vs Palan’s 95. Sung Nam was pretty aggressive to blast 45 winners.

Talking about the service games, Sung Nam made 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Ji Sung Nam lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Sung Nam put 59% of his first serves in, winning 67% (45/67) of the points behind his 1st serve and 62% (29/47) on the 2nd serve. Ji broke Palan 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Sung Nam has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (185-125). 8-4 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Sung Nam has an aggregate 154-94 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Ji has an overall 10-9 win-loss record in 2024, 8-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Jinan Challenger

Keegan Smith

Ranked no. 639, the American got to the 2^nd round after defeating Seita Watanabe 6-4 6-2, Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul 6-4 6-4 and Mikalai Haliak 6-4 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Keegan had a good straight sets win against Haliak (6-4 6-1). During the match Smith scored 58 points vs Haliak’s 34. Smith was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Smith blasted 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Keegan Smith was exceptionally effective on serve to win 85% (28/33) of his 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Smith broke Haliak 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Keegan’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Lakewood.

Smith has a composed 23-15 win-loss record in 2024, 23-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Sung Nam	Smith
Match played	3	3
Tot Set	7	6
Tot Games	66	55
Pts	234-179	188-121
Total Points	413	309
Winners	87	86
%Winners	37%	46%

Both Sung Nam and Smith played 3 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Ji Sung Nam dropped 1 set while Keegan Smith hasn’t dropped a set so far. Sung Nam has played 1 set more than Smith (7 vs 6). Therefore, Sung Nam played 11 games more than Smith. The Korean scored 87 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The American blasted 86 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Sung Nam	Smith
Aces	10	18
Avg per match	3.3	6
1st in	117/211	100/137
%1st in	55%	73%
1st pts	87/117	86/100
%1st pts	74%	86%
2nd pts	56/94	28/37
%2nd pts	60%	76%

Sung Nam made 10 aces (3.3 per match). Smith blasted 18 aces (6 per match). Sung Nam won 74% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Smith won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 76% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Sung Nam	Smith
Won	12	9
Converted	12/23	9/22
% Converted	52%	41%
Conceded	10	6
Saved	6	5
% Saved	60%	83%
Times Broken	4	1

Ji broke his opponents 12 times with a 52% conversion rate. The Korean lost his serve 4 times and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Smith broke his opponents 9 times with a 41% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.

Sung Nam
	Q1 Li	Q3 Zhukov	R1 Palan	Total
Score	6-2 6-2	6-3 6-4	6-3 6-75 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	3	7
Tot Games	16	19	31	66
pts	61-37	64-47	109-95	234-179
Total points	98	111	204	413
Winners	19	23	45	87
%Winners	31%	36%	41%	37%
SERVE
Aces	2	2	6	10
Double Faults	2	0	2	4
1st in	23/45	27/52	67/114	117/211
% 1st in	51%	52%	59%	55%
1st pts	19/23	23/27	45/67	87/117
% 1st pts	83%	85%	67%	74%
2nd pts	10/22	17/25	29/47	56/94
% 2nd pts	45%	68%	62%	60%
Breaks
Won	6	2	4	12
Converted	6/10	2/4	4/9	12/23
Converted %	60%	50%	44%	52%
Conceded	2	0	8	10
Saved	0/2	0/0	6/8	6
Saved %	0%	–	75%	25%
Times Broken	2	0	2	4

Smith
	Q1 Watanabe	Q3 Trongcharoenchaikul	R1 Haliak	Total
Score	6-4 6-2	6-4 6-4	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	18	20	17	55
pts	63-37	67-50	58-34	188-121
Total points	100	117	92	309
Winners	30	28	28	86
%Winners	48%	42%	48%	46%
SERVE
Aces	5	3	10	18
Double Faults	0	0	2	2
1st in	34/41	33/48	33/48	100/137
% 1st in	83%	69%	69%	73%
1st pts	30/34	28/33	28/33	86/100
% 1st pts	88%	85%	85%	86%
2nd pts	6/7	13/15	9/15	28/37
% 2nd pts	86%	87%	60%	76%
Breaks
Won	3	2	4	9
Converted	3/7	2/6	4/9	9/22
Converted %	43%	33%	44%	41%
Conceded	0	0	6	6
Saved	0/0	0/0	5/6	5
Saved %	–	–	83%	28%
Times Broken	0	0	1	1

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