James Duckworth and Li Tu will square off in the 1st round of the Adelaide International for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Duckworth who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, James Duckworth is the pick to win this match.
James Duckworth -> 1.6
Li Tu -> 2.34
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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Li Tu
This will be the 5th time that James Duckworth and Li Tu play each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Duckworth (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Duckworth won 6-4 6-3 in the semifinal in the Drummondville Challenger back in 2023.
James Duckworth
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-29 | 23-14 | 2-3 | 7-7 | 10-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-28 | 43-21 | 1-3 | 5-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-27 | 20-18 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 4-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-24 | 15-9 | 1-2 | 12-9 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 94, the Australian reached the 1st round after defeating Pavel Kotov 7-6(3) 6-7(7) 7-6(5) and Jacob Bradshaw 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, James had a good straight sets win against Bradshaw (6-2 6-2). During the match, Duckworth scored 60 points vs Bradshaw’s 38. Duckworth was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Duckworth couldn’t to score even 1 ace during the match and he committed only 1 double fault. James Duckworth was quite effective on serve to win 83% (25/30) of his 1st serve and 78% (7/9) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Bradshaw 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Duckworth started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has dropped 1 set in this event to conquer 54% of the points he played.
Duckworth has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (280-179). 2-1 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Duckworth has a composed 199-107 match record in the last years on hard.
Duckworth has an overall 2-1 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Adelaide
Li Tu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 179, Li will start his run in Adelaide after he played his last match in Brisbane where he lost 6-3 2-6 6-4 to Nishioka in the qualifications on the 29th of December.
Li has an aggregate 1-1 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, Tu has an overall 173-94 record. He has a positive 129-61 record on hard.
Head 2 Head
WWL
LW Tennis Scores in Adelaide
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rafael Matos/Marcelo MeloMatos/Marcelo Melo – Jamie Murray/John PeersMurray/John Peers (3-6 6-4 10-7) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thomas Fancutt/Matthew Christopher RomiosFancutt/Matthew Christopher Romios – Gonzalo Escobar/John-Patrick SmithEscobar/John-Patrick Smith (7-64 3-6 10-8) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher O’ConnellChristopher – Arthur RinderknechArthur (7-5 7-6(5)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- David GoffinGoffin – Rinky HijikataHijikata (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Li TuTu (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander BublikBublik – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Marcos GironGiron (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Sebastian KordaKorda (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction
