Billy Harris and Saba Purtseladze will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Shenzhen Challenger for the 1^st 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

Ranked no. 110, the Brit got to the 2^nd round after defeating Kasidit Samrej 6-4 6-7(1) 6-3.

In the 1^st 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

Ranked no. 426, the Georgean reached the 2^nd round after beating Xing Dao Chen 6-3 6-1.

In the 1^st 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

Tennis Scores in Shenzhen Challenger

• Arthur CazauxCazaux – Yaojie ZengZeng (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• 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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