Adam Walton and Fajing Sun will square off in the 2^nd round of the Shenzhen Challenger for the 2^nd 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 2^nd 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 2^nd round in the Hangzhou Challenger back in October 2024.

Adam Walton

Ranked no. 102, the Australian got to the 2^nd round after beating Jie Cui 6-4 6-3.

In the 1^st 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

Ranked no. 327 (career-high), the Chinese got to the 2^nd round after defeating Ryuki Matsuda 7-5 6-3.

In the 1^st 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

Tennis Scores in Shenzhen Challenger

• Tianhui ZhangZhang – Philip SekulicSekulic (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• 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

• 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
• Kris Van WykVan Wyk – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Arthur WeberWeber – Rigele TeTe (0-0) – H2H and prediction