Fabio Fognini and Ray Ho will face off in the 1^st round of the Hangzhou Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis 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 face off in the main tour.

Fabio Fognini

Ranked no. 81, Fognini 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 2^nd round on the 4^th of October.

The Italian has an overall 26-23 win-loss record in 2024, 5-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Fognini’s best result of the current season 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

Fognini has never competed in this tournament before.

Ray Ho

Ranked no. 893, the Chinese got to the 1^st round after defeating Hanyi Liu 7-5 6-1 and Grigoriy Lomakin 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications, Ho 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 pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.

About the serving games, Ho scored 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

Ho started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to conquer 59% of the points he played.

The Chinese has an aggregate 12-14 win-loss record in 2024, 12-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Hangzhou Challenger

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• Adam WaltonWalton – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (3-6 7-6⁶ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Arthur CazauxCazaux – Alex BoltBolt (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (6-7⁸ 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Vadym UrsuUrsu – Rigele TeTe (5-7 7-6¹ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jie CuiCui – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Yan BaiBai – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Fajing SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Billy HarrisHarris – Benjamin LockLock (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Aleksandre BakshiBakshi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gabriel DialloDiallo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction