Mark Lajal and Ryan Peniston will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Zhangjiagang Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:00 am on COURT 5. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mark Lajal who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Mark Lajal is the pick to win this match.
Mark Lajal -> 1.53
Ryan Peniston -> 2.4

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Prediction and head to head Mark Lajal vs. Ryan Peniston

There is no head to head record between Mark Lajal and Ryan Peniston since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Mark Lajal

Ranked no. 247, the Estonian reached the 2^nd round after defeating Philip Henning 4-6 7-5 7-6(5).

In the 1^st round against Henning, Mark recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 7-5 7-6⁵). During the match, Lajal scored 106 points vs Henning’s 105. Mark was very aggressive to blast 52 winners.

Regarding the service games, Lajal recorded 15 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Mark Lajal lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Lajal put 65% of his first serves in, winning 81% (52/64) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (17/34) on the 2nd serve. Mark broke Henning 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

Lajal has a solid win-loss record in the last 4 years having won 60% of his matches (118-80). 14-11 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Lajal has an aggregate79-43 win-loss record in the last 4 years on hard.

The Estonian’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger.

The Estonian has a composed 21-20 win-loss record in 2024, 14-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger

Lajal has never competed in this tournament before.

Ryan Peniston

Ranked no. 406, Peniston got to the 2^nd round after defeating Kris Van Wyk 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Van Wyk (6-4 6-4). During the match Peniston scored 67 points vs Van Wyk’s 50. Peniston was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about serving, Peniston recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Ryan Peniston was pretty effective on serve to win 74% (35/47) of his 1st serve and 67% (6/9) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Brit broke Van Wyk 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).

Ryan has a compiled 7-15 win-loss record in 2024, 6-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Lajal	Peniston
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	35	20
Pts	106-105	67-50
Total Points	211	117
Winners	52	35
%Winners	49%	52%

Both Lajal and Peniston played 1 match. At the moment, Mark Lajal lost 1 set while Ryan Peniston hasn’t dropped a set so far. Lajal has played 1 set more than Peniston (3 vs 2). Therefore, Lajal played 15 games more than Peniston. The Estonian scored 52 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Ryan blasted 35 winners (52%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Lajal	Peniston
Aces	15	2
Avg per match	15	2
1st in	64/98	47/56
%1st in	65%	84%
1st pts	52/64	35/47
%1st pts	81%	74%
2nd pts	17/34	6/9
%2nd pts	50%	67%

Lajal recorded 15 aces . Peniston scored 2 aces . Lajal won 81% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Peniston won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Lajal	Peniston
Won	3	3
Converted	3/9	3/4
% Converted	33%	75%
Conceded	5	6
Saved	2	5
% Saved	40%	83%
Times Broken	3	1

The Estonian broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Estonian lost his serve 3 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded. Peniston broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Brit conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.

Lajal
	R1 Henning	Total
Score	4-6 7-5 7-65
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	35	35
pts	106-105	106-105
Total points	211	211
Winners	52	52
%Winners	49%	49%
SERVE
Aces	15	15
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	64/98	64/98
% 1st in	65%	65%
1st pts	52/64	52/64
% 1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	17/34	17/34
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/9	3/9
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	2/5	2
Saved %	40%	40%
Times Broken	3	3

Peniston
	R1 Van	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	67-50	67-50
Total points	117	117
Winners	35	35
%Winners	52%	52%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	47/56	47/56
% 1st in	84%	84%
1st pts	35/47	35/47
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	6/9	6/9
% 2nd pts	67%	67%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/4	3/4
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	5/6	5
Saved %	83%	83%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Zhangjiagang Challenger

• Vadym UrsuUrsu – Ajeet RaiRai (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-2 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Fajing SunSun – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-3 6-7⁵ 6-0) – See score progression
• Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Egor AgafonovAgafonov (6-3 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
• Jie CuiCui – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Norbert GombosGombos – Yibing WuWu (7-5 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – Kris Van WykVan Wyk (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Mikalai HaliakHaliak (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Sheng TangTang – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (4-6 7-6¹ 6-2) – See score progression
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Lukas PokornyPokorny (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi – Marc PolmansPolmans (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Yan BaiBai – Blake MottMott (6-4 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Tristan LamasineLamasine (6-2 7-6²) – See score progression
• Tung-Lin WuWu – Yi ZhouZhou (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Mark LajalLajal – Philip HenningHenning (4-6 7-5 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Vadym UrsuUrsu – Ajeet RaiRai (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Fajing SunSun – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-3 6-7(5) 6-0) – See score progression
• Yan BaiBai – Blake MottMott (6-4 1-6 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Yan BaiBai – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Vadym UrsuUrsu – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jie CuiCui – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sheng TangTang – Fajing SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (0-0) – H2H and prediction