Li Tu and Marat Sharipov will square off in the 1st round of the Busan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines 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 -> 1.6
Marat Sharipov -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Li Tu vs. Marat Sharipov
There is no head to head record between Li Tu and Marat Sharipov since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Li Tu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-22 | 11-16 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 6-5 | 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. 172, Tu will start his run in the Busan Challenger after he played his last match in the Phoenix Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-2 to Spizzirri in the 1st round on the 12th of March.
The Australian has a composed 8-8 win-loss record in 2025, 8-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Tu has an overall 180-101 record. He has a positive 136-68 record on hard.
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2023. See his history.
Marat Sharipov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48-26 | 24-11 | 14-9 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 46-17 | 16-7 | 27-7 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 65-18 | 43-4 | 22-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-19 | 8-6 | 7-10 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-17 | 2-5 | 3-7 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 260, the Russian reached the 1st round after beating Ji Sung Nam 7-5 6-1 and Andre Ilagan 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Marat had a good straight sets win against Ilagan (6-3 6-4). During the match Sharipov scored 75 points vs Ilagan’s 60. Sharipov was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Sharipov struck 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Marat Sharipov was very effective on serve to win 76% (25/33) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Marat broke Ilagan 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Russian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to conquer 56% of the points he played.
The Russian’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger,M25 Doha,the Manama Challenger,M25 Creteil and Balma.
The Russian has an aggregate 21-7 win-loss record in 2025, 15-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Busan Challenger
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adam WaltonWalton – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – James McCabeMcCabe (7-64 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hyeon ChungChung – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Christopher EubanksEubanks (3-6 7-63 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Rei SakamotoSakamoto (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alex BoltBolt – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (3-6 6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon HoltHolt – Constant LestienneLestienne (1-6 7-62 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gerard Campana LeeCampana Lee – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Alex BoltBolt – Brandon HoltHolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Omar JasikaJasika (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (1-0) – H2H and prediction