James Duckworth and Ramkumar Ramanathan will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Hangzhou Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on COURT 2. 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 James Duckworth who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, James Duckworth is the pick to win this match.
James Duckworth -> 1.18
Ramkumar Ramanathan -> 4.4

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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Ramkumar Ramanathan

This will be the 3^rd time that James Duckworth and Ramkumar Ramanathan clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Duckworth (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Duckworth won 6-4 7-6(2) in the 2^nd round in the Taipei Challenger back in May 2024.

James Duckworth

Ranked no. 75, James got to the 2^nd round after beating Yasutaka Uchiyama 7-5 6-7(4) 7-6(5).

In the 1^st round, Duckworth defeated Uchiyama (7-5 6-7⁴ 7-6⁵). During the match, Duckworth scored 130 points vs Uchiyama’s 124. The Australian was extremely aggressive to blast 61 winners.

Regarding the service games, Duckworth scored 12 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, James Duckworth was pretty effective on serve to win 74% (61/82) of his 1st serve and 54% (28/52) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke Uchiyama twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).

Duckworth has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (305-200). 19-14 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Duckworth has an overall 214-123 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Duckworth’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger.

James has an aggregate 36-24 win-loss record in 2024, 19-14 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Hangzhou Challenger

Duckworth has never competed in this tournament before.

Ramkumar Ramanathan

Ranked no. 332, Ramanathan got to the 2^nd round after defeating Illya Marchenko 6-7(8) 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round against Marchenko, Ramkumar recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7⁸ 6-4 6-4). During the match Ramanathan scored 108 points vs Marchenko’s 103. Ramanathan was very aggressive to blast 48 winners.

About the serving games, Ramanathan bagged 14 aces and he was not very steady on his 2nd serve to score 14 double faults. Overall, Ramkumar Ramanathan was pretty efficient on serve to win 80% (48/60) of his 1st serve and 52% (30/58) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Ramkumar broke Marchenko 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

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

Ramanathan has a composed 22-21 win-loss record in 2024, 21-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Duckworth	Ramanathan
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	38	33
Pts	130-124	108-103
Total Points	254	211
Winners	61	48
%Winners	47%	44%

Both Duckworth and Ramanathan played 1 match. Both players lost a set in the event. James Duckworth lost 1 set, while Ramkumar Ramanathan surrendered 1 set. Talking about their workload, Duckworth and Ramanathan have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Duckworth played 5 games more than Ramanathan. The Australian scored 61 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Ramkumar bagged 48 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Duckworth	Ramanathan
Aces	12	14
Avg per match	12	14
1st in	82/134	60/118
%1st in	61%	51%
1st pts	61/82	48/60
%1st pts	74%	80%
2nd pts	28/52	30/58
%2nd pts	54%	52%

Duckworth fired 12 aces . Ramanathan bagged 14 aces . Duckworth won 74% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Ramanathan won 80% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Duckworth	Ramanathan
Won	2	4
Converted	2/6	4/5
% Converted	33%	80%
Conceded	7	10
Saved	6	8
% Saved	86%	80%
Times Broken	1	2

James broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded. Ramkumar broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Ramanathan conceded his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.

Duckworth
	R1 Uchiyama	Total
Score	7-5 6-74 7-65
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	38	38
pts	130-124	130-124
Total points	254	254
Winners	61	61
%Winners	47%	47%
SERVE
Aces	12	12
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	82/134	82/134
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	61/82	61/82
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	28/52	28/52
% 2nd pts	54%	54%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/6	2/6
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	6/7	6
Saved %	86%	86%
Times Broken	1	1

Ramanathan
	R1 Marchenko	Total
Score	6-78 6-4 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	33	33
pts	108-103	108-103
Total points	211	211
Winners	48	48
%Winners	44%	44%
SERVE
Aces	14	14
Double Faults	14	14
1st in	60/118	60/118
% 1st in	51%	51%
1st pts	48/60	48/60
% 1st pts	80%	80%
2nd pts	30/58	30/58
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/5	4/5
Converted %	80%	80%
Conceded	10	10
Saved	8/10	8
Saved %	80%	80%
Times Broken	2	2

Tennis Scores in Hangzhou Challenger

• Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Tianhui ZhangZhang (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Petr Bar BiryukovBar Biryukov – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Yan BaiBai (6-1 6-7⁵ 7-6¹) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-5 6-7⁴ 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Fajing SunSun – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Fabio FogniniFognini – Ray HoHo (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Billy HarrisHarris – Benjamin LockLock (6-3 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Aleksandre BakshiBakshi (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Gabriel DialloDiallo – James McCabeMcCabe (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (4-6 7-6¹ 6-2) – See score progression
• Adam WaltonWalton – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (3-6 7-6⁶ 6-4) – See score progression
• Vadym UrsuUrsu – Rigele TeTe (5-7 7-6¹ 6-4) – See score progression
• Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Jie CuiCui – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Arthur CazauxCazaux – Alex BoltBolt (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (6-7⁸ 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Fajing SunSun – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (4-6 7-6(1) 6-2) – See score progression
• Billy HarrisHarris – Benjamin LockLock (6-3 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Tianhui ZhangZhang (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Yan BaiBai (6-1 6-7(5) 7-6(1)) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Fabio FogniniFognini – Jie CuiCui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Billy HarrisHarris – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Vadym UrsuUrsu – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Fajing SunSun – Adam WaltonWalton (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gabriel DialloDiallo – Kasidit SamrejSamrej (0-0) – H2H and prediction