Liam Draxl and Yibing Wu will fight against each other in the semifinal of the Cary Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 1:00 pm on STADIUM. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yibing Wu who should win in 3 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Yibing Wu is the pick to win this match.
Yibing Wu -> 1.51
Liam Draxl -> 2.42

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Prediction and head to head Liam Draxl vs. Yibing Wu

There is no head to head record between Liam Draxl and Yibing Wu since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Liam Draxl

Liam Draxl

32 - 16win/loss

Hard
7-4
I Hard
15-6
Clay
10-5
Grass
0-1
Rank
115
High
115
LWWWWWWWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 41-18 16-6 10-5 15-6 0-1 0-0
2024 51-24 21-10 17-12 13-2 0-0 0-0
2023 36-9 23-5 0-0 13-4 0-0 0-0
2022 26-16 16-10 3-1 7-5 0-0 0-0
2021 29-14 16-9 12-3 1-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 147, Liam reached the semifinal after beating Philip Sekulic 6-2 6-2, Joshua Sheehy 6-2 6-2 and Aidan Mayo 6-2 7-5.

In the quarter, Draxl had a good straight sets win against Mayo (6-2 7-5). During the match, Draxl scored 66 points vs Mayo’s 52. The Canadian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Draxl scored just 1 ace throughout the encounter and he committed only 4 double faults. Liam Draxl lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Draxl put 61% of his first serves in, winning 71% (25/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. The Canadian broke Mayo 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Canadian hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to conquer 59% of the points he played.

Draxl has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 66% of his matches (192-97). 6-4 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Draxl has an overall94-48 match record in the last 8 years on hard.

Liam’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Oeiras 1 Challenger,the Oeiras 3 Challenger,the Sarasota Challenger and the Savannah Challenger.

Liam has an overall 31-16 win-loss record in 2025, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Cary Challenger

Cary Challenger
Draxl's Record

Yibing Wu

Yibing Wu

12 - 4win/loss

Hard
10-2
I Hard
0-0
Clay
2-2
Rank
243
High
54
LWWWWLWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 18-6 16-4 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 9-5 7-4 2-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 18-17 5-7 3-5 9-1 1-4 0-0
2022 40-7 20-5 10-2 10-0 0-0 0-0
2021 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 285, Wu reached the semifinal after defeating Ian Mayew 6-3 6-3, Kaylan Bigun 7-5 6-2 and Michael Zheng 6-2 6-3.

In the quarter, Wu had a good straight sets win against Zheng (6-2 6-3). During the match Wu scored 70 points vs Zheng’s 53. Wu was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.

About the serving games, Wu fired 5 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Yibing Wu was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 74% (26/35) of his 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Wu broke Zheng 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Chinese hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.

His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Tyler Challenger where he overcame Yi Zhou in the final 6-4 3-6 6-3.

The Chinese has an overall 12-3 win-loss record in 2025, 10-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Cary Challenger
Wu's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

L.Draxl
Y.Wu
4h:29
4h:29
Time on court​
4h:27
4h:27
1h:42
1h:42
Last match​
1h:28
1h:28
3
3
Match played
3
3
52
52
Games Played​
55
55
6
6
Set played​​
6
6
188
188
Total points​
210
210
62.7
62.7
Avg point​
70
70
73
73
Winners
68
68
24.3
24.3
Avg Winners​
22.7
22.7
39%
39%
Ratio winners
32%
32%
-- Serve --
6
6
Aces
10
10
2
2
Avg Aces
3.3
3.3
9
9
Double Faults
14
14
3
3
Avg Double Faults
4.7
4.7
73/96
73/96
1st won total​
68/86
68/86
!
76%
76%
1st won %
!
79%
79%
32/54
32/54
2nd won total​
43/81
43/81
59%
59%
2nd won %
53%
53%
-- Break Points --
13/24
13/24
BP won
13/32
13/32
4.3/8
4.3/8
Avg BP won
4.3/10.7
4.3/10.7
!
54%
54%
Won
41%
41%
3
3
Conceded
15
15
1
1
Avg Conceded
5
5
2
2
Broken
4
4
!
0.7
0.7
Avg Broken
1.3
1.3
1
1
Saved
11
11

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Draxl Wu
Match played 3 3
Tot Set 6 6
Tot Games 52 55
Pts 188-130 210-159
Total Points 318 369
Winners 73 68
%Winners 39% 32%

Both Draxl and Wu played 3 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Draxl and Wu have played the same amount of sets 6. However, Draxl played 3 games less than Wu. The Canadian scored 73 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese struck 68 winners (32%).

Serve Performance

Serve Draxl Wu
Aces 6 10
Avg per match 2 3.3
1st in 96/150 86/167
%1st in 64% 51%
1st pts 73/96 68/86
%1st pts 76% 79%
2nd pts 32/54 43/81
%2nd pts 59% 53%

Draxl bagged 6 aces (2 per match). Wu scored 10 aces (3.3 per match). Draxl won 76% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Wu won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Draxl Wu
Won 13 13
Converted 13/24 13/32
% Converted 54% 41%
Conceded 3 15
Saved 1 11
% Saved 33% 73%
Times Broken 2 4

Draxl broke his opponents 13 times with a 54% conversion rate. Liam dropped his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Yibing broke his opponents 13 times with a 41% conversion rate. Yibing conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded.

Draxl
R1
Sekulic
R2
Sheehy
1/4
Mayo
Total
Score 6-2 6-2 6-2 6-2 6-2 7-5
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 16 16 20 52
pts 62-40 60-38 66-52 188-130
Total points 102 98 118 318
Winners 24 24 25 73
%Winners 39% 40% 38% 39%
SERVE
Aces 5 0 1 6
Double Faults 2 3 4 9
1st in 31/46 30/47 35/57 96/150
% 1st in 67% 64% 61% 64%
1st pts 24/31 24/30 25/35 73/96
% 1st pts 77% 80% 71% 76%
2nd pts 10/15 11/17 11/22 32/54
% 2nd pts 67% 65% 50% 59%
Breaks
Won 4 4 5 13
Converted 4/8 4/8 5/8 13/24
Converted % 50% 50% 63% 54%
Conceded 1 0 2 3
Saved 1/1 0/0 0/2 1
Saved % 100% 0% 33%
Times Broken 0 0 2 2
Wu
R1
Mayew
R2
Bigun
1/4
Zheng
Total
Score 6-3 6-3 7-5 6-2 6-2 6-3
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 18 20 17 55
pts 67-52 73-54 70-53 210-159
Total points 119 127 123 369
Winners 20 22 26 68
%Winners 30% 30% 37% 32%
SERVE
Aces 4 1 5 10
Double Faults 3 5 6 14
1st in 24/53 27/54 35/60 86/167
% 1st in 45% 50% 58% 51%
1st pts 20/24 22/27 26/35 68/86
% 1st pts 83% 81% 74% 79%
2nd pts 16/29 14/27 13/25 43/81
% 2nd pts 55% 52% 52% 53%
Breaks
Won 4 5 4 13
Converted 4/10 5/11 4/11 13/32
Converted % 40% 45% 36% 41%
Conceded 5 3 7 15
Saved 4/5 1/3 6/7 11
Saved % 80% 33% 86% 66%
Times Broken 1 2 1 4

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