Cristian Garin and Kris Van Wyk will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Shanghai Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 pm 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 Cristian Garin who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Cristian Garin is the pick to win this match.
Cristian Garin -> 1.23
Kris Van Wyk -> 3.88

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Prediction and head to head Cristian Garin vs. Kris Van Wyk

There is no head to head record between Cristian Garin and Kris Van Wyk since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Cristian Garin

Ranked no. 116, Garin will start his run in the Shanghai Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 4-6 7-6(4) 6-3 to Lam Coleman Wong in the qualifications on the 19^th of August.

The Chilean has a compiled 18-20 win-loss record in 2024, 3-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Christian’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Estoril and Munich.

Talking about his overall career, Garin has an overall 407-274 record. He has a positive 73-67 record on hard.

Previously in the Shanghai Challenger

Garin has never competed in this tournament before.

Kris Van Wyk

Ranked no. 405, Van reached the 1^st round after defeating Charles Chen 6-4 6-1 and Lukas Pokorny 6-3 7-5.

In the qualifications, Kris had a good straight sets win against Pokorny (6-3 7-5). During the match Van scored 77 points vs Pokorny’s 63. The South African was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about serving, Van made 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Kris Van Wyk was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 76% (29/38) of his 1st serve and 52% (15/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Kris broke Pokorny 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Kris started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 57% of the points he played.

Van’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh,M15 Monastir and M15 Hillcrest.

Van has an overall 43-25 win-loss record in 2024, 43-25 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Shanghai Challenger

• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Rigele TeTe (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (7-6⁴ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yan BaiBai (7-5 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Nicolas MejiaMejia (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Norbert GombosGombos – Paul JubbJubb (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Blake MottMott – Maxime CressyCressy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Christian GarinGarin – Kris Van WykVan Wyk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Tung-Lin WuWu (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera – Fajing SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yibing WuWu – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Ajeet RaiRai (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Marc PolmansPolmans (1-0) – H2H and prediction