Li Tu and Philip Sekulic will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Playford Challenger for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Li Tu who should win in 3 sets.
Li Tu -> 1.54
Philip Sekulic -> 2.35
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Prediction and head to head Li Tu vs. Philip Sekulic
This will be the 6th time that Li Tu and Philip Sekulic clash against each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Tu (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Tu won 7-5 6-2 in the 1st round in the Taipei Challenger back in May 2024.
Li Tu
32 - 22win/loss
174
172
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 43-28 | 37-21 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-32 | 29-19 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-25 | 34-16 | 15-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-7 | 28-4 | 0-0 | 13-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 189, Tu reached the 2nd round after defeating Saba Purtseladze 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st round, Li had a good straight sets win against Purtseladze (6-1 6-3). During the match, Tu scored 59 points vs Purtseladze’s 40. Li was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Tu bagged 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Li Tu lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Tu put 70% of his first serves in, winning 76% (25/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (6/14) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Purtseladze 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Tu has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 65% of his matches (161-87). 27-16 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Tu has a composed118-55 match record in the last 5 years on hard.
The Australian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Traralgon and the Lexington Challenger.
Li has an overall 32-22 win-loss record in 2024, 27-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Philip Sekulic
26 - 24win/loss
295
225
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-31 | 34-26 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-28 | 33-24 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-23 | 19-15 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-3 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 342, the Australian reached the 2nd round after beating Tibo Colson 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Colson (6-3 6-2). During the match Sekulic scored 66 points vs Colson’s 48. Sekulic was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Sekulic scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Philip Sekulic was pretty effective on serve to win 72% (31/43) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Colson 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Philip’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Wuxi Challenger,the Kachreti Challenger and M25 Cairns.
Sekulic has a composed 26-24 win-loss record in 2024, 26-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tu | Sekulic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 17 |
| Pts | 59-40 | 66-48 |
| Total Points | 99 | 114 |
| Winners | 25 | 31 |
| %Winners | 42% | 47% |
Both Tu and Sekulic played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Tu and Sekulic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Tu played 1 game less than Sekulic. The Australian scored 25 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Sekulic made 31 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tu | Sekulic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 1 |
| 1st in | 33/47 | 43/59 |
| %1st in | 70% | 73% |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 31/43 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 6/14 | 10/16 |
| %2nd pts | 43% | 63% |
Tu struck 10 aces . Sekulic blasted 1 ace . Tu won 76% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Sekulic won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tu | Sekulic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 3/10 |
| % Converted | 50% | 30% |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 50% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Tu broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Tu dropped his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Sekulic broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. Philip was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Tu | |||
| R1 Purtseladze | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 59-40 | 59-40 | |
| Total points | 99 | 99 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 33/47 | 33/47 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 25/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/14 | 6/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Sekulic | |||
| R1 Colson | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 66-48 | 66-48 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 43/59 | 43/59 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 31/43 | 31/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Tennis Scores in Playford Challenger
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Shintaro ImaiImai (7-67 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Thomas FancuttFancutt (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Li TuTu – (4-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christian LangmoLangmo – Omar JasikaJasika (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Dane SweenySweeny (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (0-0) – H2H and prediction