Fabio Fognini and Jie Cui will face off in the 2^nd round of the Hangzhou Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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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 -> 1.38
Jie Cui -> 2.85

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Prediction and head to head Fabio Fognini vs. Jie Cui

There is no head to head record between Fabio Fognini and Jie Cui since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Fabio Fognini

Ranked no. 81, Fognini reached the 2^nd round after defeating Ray Ho 6-3 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Fognini had a good straight sets win against Ho (6-3 6-2). During the match, Fognini scored 69 points vs Ho’s 44. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 17 winners.

Talking about the service games, Fognini blasted 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Fabio Fognini was pretty efficient on serve to win 81% (17/21) of his 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. The Italian broke Ho 6 times after converting 46% of his break points (6/13).

Fognini has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (277-224). 6-9 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Fognini has a composed 90-85 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Fognini’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the San Marino Challenger.

Fabio has an overall 27-23 win-loss record in 2024, 6-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Hangzhou Challenger

The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.

Jie Cui

Ranked no. 376, Jie reached the 2^nd round after beating Yuta Shimizu 6-3 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Cui had a good straight sets win against Shimizu (6-3 6-3). During the match Cui scored 74 points vs Shimizu’s 57. Jie was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about serving, Cui scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Jie Cui lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Cui put 64% of his first serves in, winning 59% (22/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Shimizu 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).

Jie’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Nakhon Si Thammarat,M25 Anning and M25 Fuzhou.

Cui has a compiled 39-22 win-loss record in 2024, 34-21 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Fognini	Cui
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	18
Pts	69-44	74-57
Total Points	113	131
Winners	17	22
%Winners	25%	30%

Both Fognini and Cui played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Fognini and Cui have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Fognini played 1 game less than Cui. Fognini scored 17 winners (25% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese fired 22 winners (30%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Fognini	Cui
Aces	3	1
Avg per match	3	1
1st in	21/46	37/58
%1st in	46%	64%
1st pts	17/21	22/37
%1st pts	81%	59%
2nd pts	14/25	14/21
%2nd pts	56%	67%

Fognini bagged 3 aces . Cui fired 1 ace . Fognini won 81% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Cui won 59% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Fognini	Cui
Won	6	5
Converted	6/13	5/14
% Converted	46%	36%
Conceded	4	6
Saved	1	4
% Saved	25%	67%
Times Broken	3	2

Fognini broke his opponent 6 times with a 46% conversion rate. Fognini lost his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded. The Chinese broke his opponent 5 times with a 36% conversion rate. Cui conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Fognini
	R1 Ho	Total
Score	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	69-44	69-44
Total points	113	113
Winners	17	17
%Winners	25%	25%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	21/46	21/46
% 1st in	46%	46%
1st pts	17/21	17/21
% 1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	14/25	14/25
% 2nd pts	56%	56%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/13	6/13
Converted %	46%	46%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	1/4	1
Saved %	25%	25%
Times Broken	3	3

Cui
	R1 Shimizu	R1 Shimizu	R1 Shimizu	Total
Score	6-3 6-3	6-3 6-3	6-3 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	18	18	18	54
pts	74-57	74-57	74-57	222-171
Total points	131	131	131	393
Winners	22	22	22	66
%Winners	30%	30%	30%	30%
SERVE
Aces	1	1	1	3
Double Faults	1	1	1	3
1st in	37/58	37/58	37/58	111/174
% 1st in	64%	64%	64%	64%
1st pts	22/37	22/37	22/37	66/111
% 1st pts	59%	59%	59%	59%
2nd pts	14/21	14/21	14/21	42/63
% 2nd pts	67%	67%	67%	67%
Breaks
Won	5	5	5	15
Converted	5/14	5/14	5/14	15/42
Converted %	36%	36%	36%	36%
Conceded	6	6	6	18
Saved	4/6	4/6	4/6	12
Saved %	67%	67%	67%	201%
Times Broken	2	2	2	6

Tennis Scores in Hangzhou Challenger

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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