Adam Walton and Marat Sharipov will square off in the 1^st round of the Gwangju Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on SHOW COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Adam Walton who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Adam Walton is the pick to win this match.
Adam Walton -> 1.43
Marat Sharipov -> 2.66

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Prediction and head to head Adam Walton vs. Marat Sharipov

There is no head to head record between Adam Walton and Marat Sharipov since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Adam Walton

Ranked no. 86, Walton will start his run in the Gwangju Challenger after he played his last match in the Busan Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Atmane in the final on the 20^th of April.

The Australian has a compiled 23-12 win-loss record in 2025, 22-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the year was conquering the title the Brisbane 2 Challenger where he defeated Jason Murray Kubler in the final 7-6(6) 7-6(4).

Talking about his overall career, Adam has an overall 185-100 record. He has a positive 171-80 record on hard.

Previously in the Gwangju Challenger

The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.

Marat Sharipov

Ranked no. 256, Marat reached the 1^st

round after beating Hayden Jones 6-1 6-7(6) 6-3 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 71 points vs Ilagan’s 53. The Russian was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.

About the serving games, Sharipov bagged 12 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Marat Sharipov was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 84% (26/31) of his 1st serve and 56% (15/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sharipov broke Ilagan 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Marat started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% 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 23-8 win-loss record in 2025, 17-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Gwangju Challenger

• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Rei SakamotoSakamoto (7-6⁴ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Johannus MondayMonday – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hyeon ChungChung – Constant LestienneLestienne (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Hugo GrenierGrenier – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Uisung ParkPark – Yunseong ChungChung (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Brandon HoltHolt (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Adam WaltonWalton – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Terence AtmaneAtmane – (0-0) – H2H and prediction