Sheng Tang and Fajing Sun will square off in the 2nd round of the Zhangjiagang Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Fajing Sun who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Fajing Sun is the pick to win this match.
Fajing Sun -> 1.138
Sheng Tang -> 5.2
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Prediction and head to head Sheng Tang vs. Fajing Sun
There is no head to head record between Sheng Tang and Fajing Sun since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Sheng Tang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-16 | 10-14 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-16 | 11-15 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-19 | 42-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Tang reached the 2nd round after defeating Egor Gerasimov 7-6(5) 6-3.
In the 1st round, Sheng had a good straight sets win against Gerasimov (7-65 6-3). During the match, Tang scored 88 points vs Gerasimov’s 84. The Chinese was quite aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Talking about the service games, Tang made 9 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Sheng Tang was quite efficient on serve to win 75% (41/55) of his 1st serve and 51% (27/53) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sheng broke Gerasimov once after converting 50% of his break points (1/2).
Tang has a winning win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 57% of his matches (74-56). 5-8 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Tang has a composed64-48 win-loss record in the last 5 years on hard.
Tang has an overall 6-10 win-loss record in 2024, 5-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger
Tang has never competed in this tournament before.
Fajing Sun
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 51-27 | 42-23 | 7-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-27 | 25-22 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-22 | 32-18 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 379, Fajing reached the 2nd round after defeating Kaichi Uchida 6-3 6-7(5) 6-0.
In the 1st round, The Chinese defeated Uchida (6-3 6-75 6-0). During the match Sun scored 97 points vs Uchida’s 71. Sun was extremely aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Sun bagged 9 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Fajing Sun was quite efficient on serve to win 77% (40/52) of his 1st serve and 61% (19/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sun broke Uchida 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Fajing’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Luan,M25 Baotou,M25 Tianjin and M25 Yinchuan.
The Chinese has a compiled 35-17 win-loss record in 2024, 26-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2017, 2019 and 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tang | Sun |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 28 |
| Pts | 88-84 | 97-71 |
| Total Points | 172 | 168 |
| Winners | 41 | 40 |
| %Winners | 47% | 41% |
Both Tang and Sun played 1 match. At the moment, Fajing Sun lost 1 set while Sheng Tang hasn’t conceded a set so far. Tang has played 1 set(s) less than Sun (2 vs 3). Therefore, Tang played 6 games less than Sun. Tang scored 41 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese struck 40 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tang | Sun |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 9 |
| 1st in | 55/108 | 52/83 |
| %1st in | 51% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 41/55 | 40/52 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 27/53 | 19/31 |
| %2nd pts | 51% | 61% |
Tang managed to score 9 aces . Sun managed to score 9 aces . Tang won 75% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Sun won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tang | Sun |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 5 |
| Converted | 1/2 | 5/7 |
| % Converted | 50% | 71% |
| Conceded | 11 | 3 |
| Saved | 11 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Tang broke his opponent once with a 50% conversion rate. The Chinese very solid his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 11 break points. Fajing broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Fajing conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Tang | |||
| R1 Gerasimov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 88-84 | 88-84 | |
| Total points | 172 | 172 | |
| Winners | 41 | 41 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 55/108 | 55/108 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 41/55 | 41/55 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 27/53 | 27/53 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/2 | 1/2 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 11/11 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Sun | |||
| R1 Uchida |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-75 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 97-71 | 97-71 | |
| Total points | 168 | 168 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 52/83 | 52/83 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 40/52 | 40/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/31 | 19/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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