Seong Chan Hong and Fajing Sun will play each other in the quarter of the Zhangjiagang Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:00 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 Seong Chan Hong who should win in 2 sets.
Seong Chan Hong -> 1.29
Fajing Sun -> 3.38
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Prediction and head to head Seong Chan Hong vs. Fajing Sun
There is no head to head record between Seong Chan Hong and Fajing Sun since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Seong Chan Hong
38 - 24win/loss
152
152
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-24 | 38-19 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-34 | 17-18 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-18 | 36-12 | 4-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-8 | 7-3 | 10-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 152 (career-high), Seong got to the quarter after beating Evgeny Donskoy 4-6 7-6(1) 6-2 and Yan Bai 6-2 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Seong had a good straight sets win against Bai (6-2 6-1). During the match, Chan Hong scored 54 points vs Bai’s 28. Chan Hong was quite aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Regarding the service games, Chan Hong scored 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Seong Chan Hong was quite effective on serve to win 81% (17/21) of his 1st serve and 73% (16/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Chan Hong broke Bai 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Seong has dropped 1 set in this tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Chan Hong has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (256-152). 38-19 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Chan Hong has a compiled 225-112 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Chan Hong’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger,the Bengaluru Challenger and the Busan Challenger.
The Korean has a compiled 38-24 win-loss record in 2024, 38-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger
The Korean has never competed in this tournament before.
Fajing Sun
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-17 | 27-13 | 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 got to the quarter after beating Kaichi Uchida 6-3 6-7(5) 6-0 and Sheng Tang 6-4 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Fajing had a good straight sets win against Tang (6-4 6-4). During the match Sun scored 62 points vs Tang’s 44. Sun was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Sun scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Fajing Sun was extremely efficient on serve to win 78% (25/32) of his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sun was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Tang 3 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Fajing has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Fajing’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Luan,M25 Baotou,M25 Tianjin and M25 Yinchuan.
Fajing has a composed 36-17 win-loss record in 2024, 27-13 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 (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Chan Hong | Sun |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 46 | 48 |
| Pts | 163-126 | 159-115 |
| Total Points | 289 | 274 |
| Winners | 58 | 65 |
| %Winners | 36% | 41% |
Both Chan Hong and Sun played 2 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Seong Chan Hong surrendered 1 set, while Fajing Sun lost 1 set. Talking about their workload, Chan Hong and Sun have played the same amount of sets 5. However, Chan Hong played 2 games less than Sun. Seong scored 58 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Sun struck 65 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Chan Hong | Sun |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 5 |
| 1st in | 83/154 | 84/135 |
| %1st in | 54% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 58/83 | 65/84 |
| %1st pts | 70% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 44/71 | 33/51 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 65% |
Chan Hong struck 8 aces (4 per match). Sun bagged 10 aces (5 per match). Chan Hong won 70% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 62% 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 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Chan Hong | Sun |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 8 |
| Converted | 8/13 | 8/10 |
| % Converted | 62% | 80% |
| Conceded | 13 | 6 |
| Saved | 10 | 4 |
| % Saved | 77% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 2 |
Chan Hong broke his opponents 8 times with a 62% conversion rate. Chan Hong conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 77% of the break points that he conceded. Fajing broke his opponents 8 times with a 80% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Chan Hong | ||||
| R1 Donskoy | R2 Bai | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 7-61 6-2 | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 15 | 46 | |
| pts | 109-98 | 54-28 | 163-126 | |
| Total points | 207 | 82 | 289 | |
| Winners | 41 | 17 | 58 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 31% | 36% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 2 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 3 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 62/111 | 21/43 | 83/154 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 49% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 41/62 | 17/21 | 58/83 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 81% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 28/49 | 16/22 | 44/71 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 73% | 62% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/6 | 8/13 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 67% | 62% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 3 | 13 | |
| Saved | 7/10 | 3/3 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 70% | 100% | 85% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Sun | ||||
| R1 Uchida | R2 Tang | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-75 6-0 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 20 | 48 | |
| pts | 97-71 | 62-44 | 159-115 | |
| Total points | 168 | 106 | 274 | |
| Winners | 40 | 25 | 65 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 40% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 9 | 1 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 52/83 | 32/52 | 84/135 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 40/52 | 25/32 | 65/84 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 78% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/31 | 14/20 | 33/51 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 70% | 65% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 3/3 | 8/10 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 100% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2/3 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Tennis Scores in Zhangjiagang Challenger
- Francis Casey Alcantara/Pruchya IsarowCasey Alcantara/Pruchya Isarow – Ajeet Rai/Finn ReynoldsRai/Finn Reynolds (6-3 6-77 10-6) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Norbert GombosGombos (w/o) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Fajing SunSun – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – (1-1) – H2H and prediction