Adam Walton and Fajing Sun will square off in the 2nd round of the Shenzhen Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 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 Adam Walton who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Adam Walton is the pick to win this match.
Adam Walton -> 1.189
Fajing Sun -> 4.3
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Prediction and head to head Adam Walton vs. Fajing Sun
This will be the 2nd time that Adam Walton and Fajing Sun face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Walton (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Walton won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Hangzhou Challenger back in October 2024.
Adam Walton
48 - 33win/loss
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LLLWWWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 54-37 | 46-27 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-30 | 53-26 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-12 | 41-10 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 102, the Australian got to the 2nd round after beating Jie Cui 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Walton had a good straight sets win against Cui (6-4 6-3). During the match, Walton scored 58 points vs Cui’s 44. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Walton made 13 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Adam Walton was extremely efficient on serve to win 87% (27/31) of his 1st serve and 74% (14/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Adam broke Cui twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Walton has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 65% of his matches (156-84). 44-26 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Walton has an aggregate147-68 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Burnie 2 Challenger where he beat Dane Sweeny in the final 6-2 7-6(4) and the Taipei Challenger where he defeated Illya Marchenko in the final 3-6 6-2 7-6(3).
Adam has an overall 48-33 win-loss record in 2024, 44-26 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shenzhen Challenger
Adam has never competed in this tournament before.
Fajing Sun
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 51-27 | 42-23 | 7-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-27 | 25-22 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-22 | 32-18 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 327 (career-high), the Chinese got to the 2nd round after defeating Ryuki Matsuda 7-5 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Matsuda (7-5 6-3). During the match Sun scored 72 points vs Matsuda’s 58. Sun was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Sun managed to score 11 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Fajing Sun lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Sun put 57% of his first serves in, winning 74% (28/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (14/29) on the 2nd serve. Fajing broke Matsuda 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Sun’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Luan,M25 Baotou,M25 Tianjin and M25 Yinchuan.
The Chinese has an overall 43-24 win-loss record in 2024, 34-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Walton | Sun |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 21 |
| Pts | 58-44 | 72-58 |
| Total Points | 102 | 130 |
| Winners | 27 | 28 |
| %Winners | 47% | 39% |
Both Walton and Sun played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Walton and Sun have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Walton played 2 games less than Sun. Walton scored 27 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Fajing blasted 28 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Walton | Sun |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 13 | 11 |
| Avg per match | 13 | 11 |
| 1st in | 31/50 | 38/67 |
| %1st in | 62% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 27/31 | 28/38 |
| %1st pts | 87% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 14/19 | 14/29 |
| %2nd pts | 74% | 48% |
Walton managed to score 13 aces . Sun recorded 11 aces . Walton won 87% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 74% of the points. On the other side, Sun won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Walton | Sun |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 5 |
| Converted | 2/3 | 5/7 |
| % Converted | 67% | 71% |
| Conceded | 0 | 6 |
| Saved | 0 | 4 |
| % Saved | 0% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Adam broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Adam was rock solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Chinese broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Sun conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Walton | |||
| R1 Cui |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 58-44 | 58-44 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 13 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 31/50 | 31/50 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 27/31 | 27/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 87% | 87% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/19 | 14/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 74% | 74% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Sun | |||
| R1 Matsuda |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 72-58 | 72-58 | |
| Total points | 130 | 130 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 38/67 | 38/67 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 28/38 | 28/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/29 | 14/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWWWLWWWW Tennis Scores in Shenzhen Challenger
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- James McCabeMcCabe – Vadym UrsuUrsu (2-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (7-64 6-76 7-68) – See score progression
- Arthur WeberWeber – Kaichi UchidaUchida (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Kris Van WykVan Wyk – Mitsuki Wei Kang LeongWei Kang Leong (7-64 2-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Rigele TeTe – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Arthur CazauxCazaux – Yaojie ZengZeng (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-3 6-2) – 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
- 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
- Yan BaiBai – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-4 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Linang XiaoXiao – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Mukund SasikumarSasikumar – Petr Bar BiryukovBar Biryukov (6-1 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Kris Van WykVan Wyk – Mitsuki Wei Kang LeongWei Kang Leong (7-6(4) 2-6 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- 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
- Kris Van WykVan Wyk – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur WeberWeber – Rigele TeTe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
