Gabriel Diallo and Kasidit Samrej will play each other 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 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gabriel Diallo who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Gabriel Diallo is the pick to win this match.
Gabriel Diallo -> 1.057
Kasidit Samrej -> 7.7

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Prediction and head to head Gabriel Diallo vs. Kasidit Samrej

There is no head to head record between Gabriel Diallo and Kasidit Samrej since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Gabriel Diallo

Ranked no. 105, Diallo reached the 2^nd round after beating James McCabe 6-4 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Diallo had a good straight sets win against McCabe (6-4 6-2). During the match, Diallo scored 56 points vs McCabe’s 38. The Canadian was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Diallo fired 6 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Gabriel Diallo was quite effective on serve to win 89% (25/28) of his 1st serve and 73% (11/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Canadian broke McCabe 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Diallo has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 63% of his matches (125-72). 28-11 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Diallo has an overall68-35 record in the last 6 years on hard.

His best result of the season was conquering the title the Chicago Challenger where he overcame Bu Yunchaokete in the final 6-3 7-6(3).

Gabriel has an overall 41-22 win-loss record in 2024, 28-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Hangzhou Challenger

The Canadian has never competed in this tournament before.

Kasidit Samrej

Ranked no. 518 (career-high), the Thai got to the 2^nd round after beating Zhan Zheng 6-1 6-4, Charles Chen 6-3 6-2 and Aleksandre Bakshi 6-4 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Samrej had a good straight sets win against Bakshi (6-4 6-1). During the match Samrej scored 67 points vs Bakshi’s 47. Samrej was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Samrej recorded 6 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Kasidit Samrej lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Samrej put 56% of his first serves in, winning 82% (28/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (12/27) on the 2nd serve. Samrej broke Bakshi 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

The Thai’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Nakhon Si Thammarat and M25 Nakhon Si Thammarat.

The Thai has a compiled 32-17 win-loss record in 2024, 30-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Diallo	Samrej
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	6
Tot Games	18	51
Pts	56-38	189-128
Total Points	94	317
Winners	25	73
%Winners	45%	39%

Diallo played 1 match while Samrej competed in 3 matches. Samrej started his run from the qualifications while Diallo had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Diallo has played 4 set(s) less than Samrej (2 vs 6). Therefore, Diallo played 33 games less than Samrej. Diallo scored 25 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Samrej recorded 73 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Diallo	Samrej
Aces	6	12
Avg per match	6	4
1st in	28/43	87/158
%1st in	65%	55%
1st pts	25/28	73/87
%1st pts	89%	84%
2nd pts	11/15	38/71
%2nd pts	73%	54%

Diallo scored 6 aces . Samrej struck 12 aces (4 per match). Diallo won 89% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 73% of the points. On the other side, Samrej won 84% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Diallo	Samrej
Won	3	11
Converted	3/6	11/22
% Converted	50%	50%
Conceded	0	6
Saved	0	4
% Saved	0%	67%
Times Broken	0	2

Diallo broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Diallo extremely effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Samrej broke his opponents 11 times with a 50% conversion rate. Kasidit conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Diallo
	R1 McCabe	Total
Score	6-4 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	56-38	56-38
Total points	94	94
Winners	25	25
%Winners	45%	45%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	28/43	28/43
% 1st in	65%	65%
1st pts	25/28	25/28
% 1st pts	89%	89%
2nd pts	11/15	11/15
% 2nd pts	73%	73%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/6	3/6
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Samrej
	Q1 Zheng	Q3 Chen	R1 Bakshi	Total
Score	6-1 6-4	6-3 6-2	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	17	17	17	51
pts	62-40	60-41	67-47	189-128
Total points	102	101	114	317
Winners	24	21	28	73
%Winners	39%	35%	42%	39%
SERVE
Aces	3	3	6	12
Double Faults	0	1	5	6
1st in	26/45	27/52	34/61	87/158
% 1st in	58%	52%	56%	55%
1st pts	24/26	21/27	28/34	73/87
% 1st pts	92%	78%	82%	84%
2nd pts	12/19	14/25	12/27	38/71
% 2nd pts	63%	56%	44%	54%
Breaks
Won	3	4	4	11
Converted	3/6	4/7	4/9	11/22
Converted %	50%	57%	44%	50%
Conceded	0	1	5	6
Saved	0/0	0/1	4/5	4
Saved %	–	0%	80%	80%
Times Broken	0	1	1	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
• 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
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Yan BaiBai (6-1 6-7⁵ 7-6¹) – 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
• Jie CuiCui – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-2 6-4) – 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