Vadym Ursu and Ajeet Rai will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Zhangjiagang Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 5. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Vadym Ursu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Vadym Ursu is the pick to win this match.
Vadym Ursu -> 1.7
Ajeet Rai -> 2.07
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Prediction and head to head Vadym Ursu vs. Ajeet Rai
There is no head to head record between Vadym Ursu and Ajeet Rai since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Vadym Ursu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 25-21 | 23-16 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 54-29 | 52-25 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-34 | 40-28 | 1-3 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-12 | 34-9 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 304, the Ukrainian will start his run in the Zhangjiagang Challenger after he played his last match in the Grodzisk Mazowiecki Challenger where he lost 6-0 5-1 ret. to Naow in the 2nd round on the 14th of August.
Ursu has a composed 29-21 win-loss record in 2024, 26-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Ukrainian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh.
Talking about his overall career, Vadym has an overall 141-103 record. He has a positive 91-52 record on hard.
Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger
Ursu has never competed in this tournament before.
Ajeet Rai
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 7-6 | 7-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 24-25 | 21-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-57 | 33-25 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 1-26 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-28 | 19-24 | 4-2 | 1-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-25 | 38-24 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 510, Ajeet got to the 1st round after beating Ji Sung Nam 6-4 6-0 and Keegan Smith 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Ajeet had a good straight sets win against Smith (6-2 6-2). During the match Rai scored 57 points vs Smith’s 41. The Kiwi was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Rai managed to score 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ajeet Rai conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Rai put 65% of his first serves in, winning 87% (27/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (7/17) on the 2nd serve. Rai broke Smith 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Kiwi started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 60% of the points he played.
Ajeet’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Hong Kong.
Ajeet has a composed 23-22 win-loss record in 2024, 19-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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