Li Tu and Alafia Ayeni will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on COURT 8. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Li Tu who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Li Tu is the pick to win this match.
Li Tu -> 1.26
Alafia Ayeni -> 3.55

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Prediction and head to head Li Tu vs. Alafia Ayeni

There is no head to head record between Li Tu and Alafia Ayeni since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Li Tu

Ranked no. 178 (career-high), the Australian will start his run in the Matsuyama Challenger after he played his last match in the Seoul Challenger where he lost 6-0 6-4 to Escoffier in the quarter on the 1^st of November.

Li has an aggregate 35-24 win-loss record in 2024, 30-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tu’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Traralgon and the Lexington Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 164-89 record. He has a positive 121-57 record on hard.

Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2022. See his history.

Alafia Ayeni

Ranked no. 482, the American got to the 1^st round after beating Andrea Picchione 1-6 6-2 6-2 and Yusuke Takahashi 7-5 6-3.

In the qualifications, Ayeni had a good straight sets win against Takahashi (7-5 6-3). During the match Ayeni scored 78 points vs Takahashi’s 64. Alafia was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.

About the serving games, Ayeni struck 2 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Alafia Ayeni lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Ayeni put 52% of his first serves in, winning 62% (23/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 62% (21/34) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Takahashi 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Alafia started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

Ayeni’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 San Diego and M25 Astana.

Alafia has an aggregate 30-29 win-loss record in 2024, 24-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Matsuyama Challenger

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• Alex BoltBolt – Matej DodigDodig (6-2 3-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Guy Den OudenDen Ouden (7-5 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Terence AtmaneAtmane – Sho KatayamaKatayama (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander BlockxBlockx – Shunsuke NakagawaNakagawa (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Li TuTu – Alafia AyeniAyeni (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Shintaro ImaiImai – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction