Fabio Fognini and Ray Ho will square off in the 1st round of the Hangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Fabio Fognini who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Fabio Fognini is the pick to win this match.
Fabio Fognini -> 1.054
Ray Ho -> 7.9
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Prediction and head to head Fabio Fognini vs. Ray Ho
There is no head to head record between Fabio Fognini and Ray Ho since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Fabio Fognini
26 - 23win/loss
81
9
LWLLLLWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-23 | 5-9 | 18-12 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-23 | 0-8 | 23-12 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-26 | 10-9 | 12-12 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-24 | 12-12 | 7-8 | 0-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-10 | 4-5 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 81, the Italian will start his run in the Hangzhou Challenger after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 6-1 6-3 to Paul in the 2nd round on the 4th of October.
Fabio has a compiled 26-23 win-loss record in 2024, 5-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Fabio’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the San Marino Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Italian has an overall 684-517 record. He has a negative 152-161 record on hard.
Previously in the Hangzhou Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Ray Ho
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-14 | 12-13 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-27 | 30-26 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-29 | 20-22 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-18 | 14-8 | 18-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 893, Ray reached the 1st round after beating Hanyi Liu 7-5 6-1 and Grigoriy Lomakin 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Lomakin (6-3 6-2). During the match Ho scored 55 points vs Lomakin’s 43. The Chinese was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Ho fired 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Ray Ho conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Ho put 69% of his first serves in, winning 79% (34/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (8/19) on the 2nd serve. Ray was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Lomakin 3 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ray started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 59% of the points he played.
Ho has an overall 12-14 win-loss record in 2024, 12-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Aleksandre BakshiBakshi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
