Fajing Sun and Darwin Blanch will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Pozoblanco Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 7:30 pm on PISTA 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 Darwin Blanch who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Darwin Blanch is the pick to win this match.
Darwin Blanch -> 1.48
Fajing Sun -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Fajing Sun vs. Darwin Blanch
There is no head to head record between Fajing Sun and Darwin Blanch since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Fajing Sun
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19-17 | 19-14 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 51-27 | 42-23 | 7-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-27 | 25-22 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-22 | 32-18 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 242, Fajing reached the 2nd round after beating Antoine Escoffier 7-5 7-5.
In the 1st round, Sun had a good straight sets win against Escoffier (7-5 7-5). During the match, Sun scored 79 points vs Escoffier’s 75. Sun was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about the service games, Sun made 6 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Fajing Sun lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Sun put 65% of his first serves in, winning 61% (33/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 62% (18/29) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Escoffier 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Sun has favorable record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (247-188). 13-9 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Sun has a composed 217-153 match record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Wuxi Challenger where he beat Alex Bolt in the final 7-6(4) 6-4.
Fajing has a composed 13-12 win-loss record in 2025, 13-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pozoblanco Challenger
Darwin Blanch
29 - 11win/loss
370
364
LWLLWWWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-16 | 31-13 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-19 | 16-10 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 7-7 | 0-2 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-8 | 7-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 410 (career-high), the American reached the 2nd round after defeating Carlos Diaz Ruiz 6-1 6-4, Inaki Montes-De La Torre 6-4 6-4 and Alex Martinez 7-6(4) 6-2.
In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Martinez (7-64 6-2). During the match Blanch scored 78 points vs Martinez’s 61. Darwin was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Blanch managed to score 5 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Darwin Blanch was quite efficient on serve to win 82% (31/38) of his 1st serve and 61% (17/28) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Martinez twice.
Blanch’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Villena,M25 Martos and M25 Figueira da Foz.
Blanch has an overall 29-11 win-loss record in 2025, 27-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sun | Blanch |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 24 | 58 |
| Pts | 79-75 | 207-159 |
| Total Points | 154 | 366 |
| Winners | 33 | 74 |
| %Winners | 42% | 36% |
Sun played 1 match while Blanch competed in 3 matches. Blanch started his run from the qualifications while Sun had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Sun has played 4 set(s) less than Blanch (2 vs 6). Therefore, Sun played 34 games less than Blanch. Fajing scored 33 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The American bagged 74 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sun | Blanch |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 15 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 5 |
| 1st in | 54/83 | 96/164 |
| %1st in | 65% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 33/54 | 74/96 |
| %1st pts | 61% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 18/29 | 39/68 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 57% |
Sun fired 6 aces . Blanch struck 15 aces (5 per match). Sun won 61% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Blanch won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sun | Blanch |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 11 |
| Converted | 4/10 | 11/20 |
| % Converted | 40% | 55% |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 |
| Saved | 5 | 3 |
| % Saved | 71% | 43% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 4 |
Sun broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Chinese dropped his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Blanch broke his opponents 11 times with a 55% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 43% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sun | |||
| R1 Escoffier |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 24 | 24 | |
| pts | 79-75 | 79-75 | |
| Total points | 154 | 154 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 54/83 | 54/83 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 33/54 | 33/54 | |
| % 1st pts | 61% | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/29 | 18/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Blanch | |||||
| Q1 Diaz |
Q3 Montes-De La Torre |
R1 Martinez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | 6-4 6-4 | 7-64 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 20 | 21 | 58 | |
| pts | 58-33 | 71-65 | 78-61 | 207-159 | |
| Total points | 91 | 136 | 139 | 366 | |
| Winners | 23 | 20 | 31 | 74 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 28% | 40% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 7 | 3 | 5 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 25/42 | 33/56 | 38/66 | 96/164 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 59% | 58% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 23/25 | 20/33 | 31/38 | 74/96 | |
| % 1st pts | 92% | 61% | 82% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/17 | 9/23 | 17/28 | 39/68 | |
| % 2nd pts | 76% | 39% | 61% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 6 | 2 | 11 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 6/14 | 2/2 | 11/20 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 43% | 100% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/4 | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
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