Li Tu and Giulio Zeppieri will square off in the qualifications of the Phoenix Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Giulio Zeppieri who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Giulio Zeppieri is the pick to win this match.
Giulio Zeppieri -> 1.67
Li Tu -> 2.1
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Prediction and head to head Li Tu vs. Giulio Zeppieri
There is no head to head record between Li Tu and Giulio Zeppieri since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Li Tu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8-8 | 8-8 | 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. 177, Tu reached the qualifications after defeating Adrian Mannarino 7-5 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Mannarino (7-5 6-2). During the match, Tu scored 65 points vs Mannarino’s 46. Li was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about the service games, Tu bagged 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Li Tu was very efficient on serve to win 90% (28/31) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Li was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Mannarino 4 times.
Tu has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 64% of his matches (179-100). 7-7 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Tu has an aggregate135-67 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
Li has a composed 7-7 win-loss record in 2025, 7-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Phoenix Challenger
Li has never competed in this tournament before.
Giulio Zeppieri
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6-5 | 3-3 | 0-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-18 | 8-4 | 7-10 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-26 | 7-5 | 19-13 | 14-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-31 | 1-2 | 25-22 | 4-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-20 | 0-0 | 26-16 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 394, Zeppieri reached the qualifications after beating Lukas Klein 6-7(4) 6-4 7-6(3).
In the qualifications against Klein, Giulio recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-74 6-4 7-63). During the match Zeppieri scored 101 points vs Klein’s 100. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 48 winners.
Talking about serving, Zeppieri struck 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Giulio Zeppieri was quite efficient on serve to win 75% (48/64) of his 1st serve and 55% (22/40) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Italian broke Klein 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Zeppieri’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Koblenz Challenger.
Giulio has a compiled 6-3 win-loss record in 2025, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tu | Zeppieri |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 36 |
| Pts | 65-46 | 101-100 |
| Total Points | 111 | 201 |
| Winners | 28 | 48 |
| %Winners | 43% | 48% |
Both Tu and Zeppieri played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Giulio Zeppieri surrendered 1 set while Li Tu hasn’t dropped a set so far. Tu has played 1 set(s) less than Zeppieri (2 vs 3). Therefore, Tu played 16 games less than Zeppieri. Tu scored 28 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian made 48 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tu | Zeppieri |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 7 |
| 1st in | 31/53 | 64/104 |
| %1st in | 58% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 28/31 | 48/64 |
| %1st pts | 90% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 22/40 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 55% |
Tu managed to score 4 aces . Zeppieri blasted 7 aces . Tu won 90% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Zeppieri won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tu | Zeppieri |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/4 | 3/4 |
| % Converted | 100% | 75% |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 |
| Saved | 0 | 4 |
| % Saved | 0% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Li broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Li dropped his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Giulio broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Giulio conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Tu | |||
| Q1 Mannarino |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 65-46 | 65-46 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 31/53 | 31/53 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 28/31 | 28/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 12/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Zeppieri | |||
| Q1 Klein |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-74 6-4 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 36 | 36 | |
| pts | 101-100 | 101-100 | |
| Total points | 201 | 201 | |
| Winners | 48 | 48 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 64/104 | 64/104 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 48/64 | 48/64 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/40 | 22/40 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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