Yan Bai and Mukund Sasikumar will square off in the 2^nd round of the Shenzhen Challenger for the 5^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on CENTRAL COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yan Bai who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yan Bai is the pick to win this match.
Yan Bai -> 1.333
Mukund Sasikumar -> 3.08

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Prediction and head to head Yan Bai vs. Mukund Sasikumar

This will be the 5^th time that Yan Bai and Mukund Sasikumar square off. The head to head is 4-0 for Bai (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Bai won 7-5 6-4 in the quarter in M25 Tianjin back in July 2024.

Yan Bai

Ranked no. 280, Yan got to the 2^nd round after beating Yu Hsiou Hsu 6-4 3-6 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Bai defeated Hsiou Hsu (6-4 3-6 6-2). During the match, Bai scored 84 points vs Hsiou Hsu’s 72. Bai was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Bai bagged 11 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Yan Bai lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Bai put 58% of his first serves in, winning 69% (29/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 61% (19/31) on the 2nd serve. Yan broke Hsiou Hsu 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).

Bai has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 66% of his matches (298-154). 40-16 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Bai has an aggregate 239-115 record in the last years on hard.

The Chinese’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Hinode,M25 Anning,M25 Luzhou,M25 Tianjin and M25 Yinchuan.

Yan has an aggregate 44-17 win-loss record in 2024, 40-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shenzhen Challenger

Mukund Sasikumar

Ranked no. 410, Sasi got to the 2^nd round after defeating Petr Bar Biryukov 6-1 3-6 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Kumar Mukund defeated Bar Biryukov (6-1 3-6 6-2). During the match Kumar Mukund scored 76 points vs Bar Biryukov’s 59. Sasi was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.

About the serving games, Kumar Mukund managed to score 12 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Mukund Sasikumar was pretty efficient on serve to win 74% (32/43) of his 1st serve and 68% (21/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kumar Mukund broke Bar Biryukov 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Kumar Mukund’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Chennai,M15 Tianjin and M25 Nakhon Si Thammarat.

Kumar Mukund has a compiled 37-28 win-loss record in 2024, 37-28 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Bai	Kumar Mukund
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	27	24
Pts	84-72	76-59
Total Points	156	135
Winners	29	32
%Winners	35%	42%

Both Bai and Kumar Mukund played 1 match. Both players lost a set in the event. Yan Bai surrendered 1 set, while Mukund Sasikumar dropped 1 set. Talking about their workload, Bai and Kumar Mukund have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Bai played 3 games more than Kumar Mukund. Yan scored 29 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Kumar Mukund bagged 32 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Bai	Kumar Mukund
Aces	11	12
Avg per match	11	12
1st in	42/73	43/74
%1st in	58%	58%
1st pts	29/42	32/43
%1st pts	69%	74%
2nd pts	19/31	21/31
%2nd pts	61%	68%

Bai scored 11 aces . Kumar Mukund scored 12 aces . Bai won 69% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Kumar Mukund won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Bai	Kumar Mukund
Won	5	4
Converted	5/6	4/7
% Converted	83%	57%
Conceded	6	5
Saved	3	4
% Saved	50%	80%
Times Broken	3	1

The Chinese broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Bai conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Sasi broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Indian conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.

Bai
	R1 Hsiou	Total
Score	6-4 3-6 6-2
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	27	27
pts	84-72	84-72
Total points	156	156
Winners	29	29
%Winners	35%	35%
SERVE
Aces	11	11
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	42/73	42/73
% 1st in	58%	58%
1st pts	29/42	29/42
% 1st pts	69%	69%
2nd pts	19/31	19/31
% 2nd pts	61%	61%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/6	5/6
Converted %	83%	83%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	3/6	3
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	3	3

Kumar Mukund
	R1 Bar	Total
Score	6-1 3-6 6-2
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	24	24
pts	76-59	76-59
Total points	135	135
Winners	32	32
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	12	12
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	43/74	43/74
% 1st in	58%	58%
1st pts	32/43	32/43
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	21/31	21/31
% 2nd pts	68%	68%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/7	4/7
Converted %	57%	57%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	4/5	4
Saved %	80%	80%
Times Broken	1	1

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

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Thomas FancuttFancutt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Yan BaiBai (0-4) – H2H and prediction
• Billy HarrisHarris – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Fajing SunSun – Adam WaltonWalton (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Rigele TeTe – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (1-0) – H2H and prediction