Billy Harris and Saba Purtseladze will play each other in the 2nd round of the Shenzhen Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:00 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 Billy Harris who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Billy Harris is the pick to win this match.
Billy Harris -> 1.26
Saba Purtseladze -> 3.55
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Prediction and head to head Billy Harris vs. Saba Purtseladze
There is no head to head record between Billy Harris and Saba Purtseladze since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Billy Harris
38 - 32win/loss
126
101
LLLWLWLWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-36 | 12-13 | 6-8 | 7-9 | 14-6 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 59-34 | 27-15 | 7-8 | 14-5 | 11-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-34 | 23-13 | 10-9 | 9-8 | 2-3 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 51-20 | 13-5 | 38-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 27-13 | 19-10 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 110, the Brit got to the 2nd round after defeating Kasidit Samrej 6-4 6-7(1) 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Brit defeated Samrej (6-4 6-71 6-3). During the match, Harris and Samrej scored the same amount of points (103). However, the world no. 110 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Harris was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Regarding the service games, Harris bagged 7 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Overall, Billy Harris was quite efficient on serve to win 71% (39/55) of his 1st serve and 53% (32/60) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Brit broke Samrej 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Harris has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (382-236). 12-12 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Harris has a compiled 153-91 record in the last years on hard.
Billy’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Surbiton Challenger,the Nottingham 2 Challenger and Eastbourne.
The Brit has an overall 38-32 win-loss record in 2024, 12-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shenzhen Challenger
Harris has never competed in this tournament before.
Saba Purtseladze
34 - 30win/loss
417
395
LLLLWWLWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-34 | 25-20 | 9-11 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-37 | 44-27 | 1-7 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-35 | 34-26 | 3-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-23 | 20-16 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 426, the Georgean reached the 2nd round after beating Xing Dao Chen 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Purtseladze had a good straight sets win against Dao Chen (6-3 6-1). During the match Purtseladze scored 62 points vs Dao Chen’s 39. Saba was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Purtseladze struck 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Saba Purtseladze was very effective on serve to win 80% (24/30) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Saba broke Dao Chen 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
The Georgean’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh and the Astana Challenger.
Saba has a composed 34-30 win-loss record in 2024, 24-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Harris | Purtseladze |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 32 | 16 |
| Pts | 103-103 | 62-39 |
| Total Points | 206 | 101 |
| Winners | 39 | 24 |
| %Winners | 38% | 39% |
Both Harris and Purtseladze played 1 match. At the moment, Billy Harris surrendered 1 set while Saba Purtseladze hasn’t dropped a set so far. Harris has played 1 set more than Purtseladze (3 vs 2). Therefore, Harris played 16 games more than Purtseladze. Harris scored 39 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Saba struck 24 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Harris | Purtseladze |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 8 |
| 1st in | 55/115 | 30/48 |
| %1st in | 48% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 39/55 | 24/30 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 32/60 | 12/18 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 67% |
Harris managed to score 7 aces . Purtseladze scored 8 aces . Harris won 71% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Purtseladze won 80% 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 | Harris | Purtseladze |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 67% | 50% |
| Conceded | 10 | 4 |
| Saved | 8 | 4 |
| % Saved | 80% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Harris broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Billy surrendered his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Saba broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Saba was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.
| Harris | |||
| R1 Samrej |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-71 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 32 | |
| pts | 103-103 | 103-103 | |
| Total points | 206 | 206 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 9 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 55/115 | 55/115 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 39/55 | 39/55 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 32/60 | 32/60 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 8/10 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Purtseladze | |||
| R1 Dao |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 62-39 | 62-39 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/48 | 30/48 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 24/30 | 24/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 12/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Arthur WeberWeber – Kaichi UchidaUchida (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Adam WaltonWalton – Jie CuiCui (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (7-64 6-76 7-68) – See score progression
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- James McCabeMcCabe – Vadym UrsuUrsu (2-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Fajing SunSun – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Mukund SasikumarSasikumar – Petr Bar BiryukovBar Biryukov (6-1 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Yan BaiBai – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-4 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Xing Dao ChenDao Chen (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Billy HarrisHarris – Kasidit SamrejSamrej (6-4 6-71 6-3) – See score progression
- Linang XiaoXiao – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Arthur CazauxCazaux – Yaojie ZengZeng (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Tianhui ZhangZhang – Philip SekulicSekulic (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Arthur WeberWeber – Kaichi UchidaUchida (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (7-6(4) 6-7(6) 7-6(8)) – See score progression
- James McCabeMcCabe – Vadym UrsuUrsu (2-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Fajing SunSun – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Adam WaltonWalton – Jie CuiCui (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
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