Ramkumar Ramanathan and Fajing Sun will play each other in the qualifications of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on STADIUM COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Fajing Sun who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Fajing Sun is the pick to win this match.
Fajing Sun -> 1.56
Ramkumar Ramanathan -> 2.3

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Prediction and head to head Ramkumar Ramanathan vs. Fajing Sun

There is no head to head record between Ramkumar Ramanathan and Fajing Sun since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Ramkumar Ramanathan

Ranked no. 334, Ramkumar got to the qualifications after defeating Ugo Blanchet 6-4 4-6 6-4.

In the qualifications, Ramanathan defeated Blanchet (6-4 4-6 6-4). During the match, Ramanathan scored 93 points vs Blanchet’s 86. The Indian was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Regarding the service games, Ramanathan struck 10 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Overall, Ramkumar Ramanathan was pretty efficient on serve to win 76% (37/49) of his 1st serve and 58% (22/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Ramanathan broke Blanchet 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

Ramanathan has positive record in the last 10 years having won 52% of his matches (321-294). 19-18 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Ramanathan has a composed 198-155 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Ramanathan’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 New Delhi and M15 Chandigarh.

Ramkumar has an overall 20-20 win-loss record in 2024, 19-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

Fajing Sun

Ranked no. 352, the Chinese reached the qualifications after beating Borna Coric 6-7(5) 6-1 7-6(9).

In the qualifications against Coric, The Chinese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7⁵ 6-1 7-6⁹). During the match Sun scored 114 points vs Coric’s 107. Fajing was quite aggressive to blast 55 winners.

About the serving games, Sun managed to score 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Fajing Sun was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (55/75) of his 1st serve and 58% (30/52) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Fajing broke Coric 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).

Fajing’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Luan,M25 Baotou,M25 Tianjin and M25 Yinchuan.

Fajing has a compiled 41-22 win-loss record in 2024, 32-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Ramanathan	Sun
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	30	33
Pts	93-86	114-107
Total Points	179	221
Winners	37	55
%Winners	40%	48%

Both Ramanathan and Sun played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players lost a set in the event. Ramkumar Ramanathan surrendered 1 set, while Fajing Sun conceded 1 set. Talking about their workload, Ramanathan and Sun have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Ramanathan played 3 games less than Sun. The Indian scored 37 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese blasted 55 winners (48%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Ramanathan	Sun
Aces	10	9
Avg per match	10	9
1st in	49/87	75/127
%1st in	56%	59%
1st pts	37/49	55/75
%1st pts	76%	73%
2nd pts	22/38	30/52
%2nd pts	58%	58%

Ramanathan fired 10 aces . Sun scored 9 aces . Ramanathan won 76% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Sun won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Ramanathan	Sun
Won	3	3
Converted	3/9	3/4
% Converted	33%	75%
Conceded	6	5
Saved	4	4
% Saved	67%	80%
Times Broken	2	1

The Indian broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Ramanathan dropped his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Fajing broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Sun conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.

Ramanathan
	Q1 Blanchet	Total
Score	6-4 4-6 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	30	30
pts	93-86	93-86
Total points	179	179
Winners	37	37
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	10	10
Double Faults	7	7
1st in	49/87	49/87
% 1st in	56%	56%
1st pts	37/49	37/49
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	22/38	22/38
% 2nd pts	58%	58%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/9	3/9
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	4/6	4
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	2	2

Sun
	Q1 Coric	Total
Score	6-75 6-1 7-69
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	33	33
pts	114-107	114-107
Total points	221	221
Winners	55	55
%Winners	48%	48%
SERVE
Aces	9	9
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	75/127	75/127
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	55/75	55/75
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	30/52	30/52
% 2nd pts	58%	58%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/4	3/4
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	4/5	4
Saved %	80%	80%
Times Broken	1	1

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