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.
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
32 - 16win/loss
115
115
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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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
Yibing Wu
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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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).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Draxl | Wu |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 |
Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger
- Rei SakamotoSakamoto – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Liam DraxlDraxl – Aidan MayoMayo (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Yibing WuWu – Michael ZhengZheng (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Patrick KypsonKypson – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (5-7 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yibing WuWu – Liam DraxlDraxl (0-0) – H2H and prediction