Joshua Charlton and Akira Santillan will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Zhangjiagang Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 5:30 pm on Court 6. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Akira Santillan who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Akira Santillan is the pick to win this match.
Akira Santillan -> 1.35
Joshua Charlton -> 2.99
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Prediction and head to head Joshua Charlton vs. Akira Santillan
There is no head to head record between Joshua Charlton and Akira Santillan since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Joshua Charlton
14 - 15win/loss
765
751
LLWLWLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25-26 | 22-21 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-28 | 28-23 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 4-3 | 0-1 |
| 2023 | 14-9 | 14-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 12-7 | 11-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, the Australian reached the qualifications after defeating Ajeet Rai 6-4 1-0 ret..
In the qualifications against Rai, Charlton had a free pass after Rai retired on a 6-4 1-0 . scoreline.
Charlton has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 56% of his matches (83-64). 11-10 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Charlton has a composed65-49 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
The Australian has an aggregate 14-15 win-loss record in 2025, 11-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger
Joshua has never competed in this tournament before.
Akira Santillan
38 - 14win/loss
321
144
LWWWLWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61-22 | 33-13 | 6-2 | 22-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 3-7 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-33 | 11-13 | 21-14 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-28 | 28-19 | 9-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 20-15 | 2-5 | 12-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 632, Akira reached the qualifications after defeating Yaojie Zeng 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Santillan had a good straight sets win against Zeng (6-3 6-1). During the match Santillan scored 61 points vs Zeng’s 45. Akira was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Santillan made 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Akira Santillan lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Santillan put 73% of his first serves in, winning 74% (28/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 36% (5/14) on the 2nd serve. Akira broke Zeng 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
The Australian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya,M15 Maanshan and M25 Yinchuan.
Santillan has an aggregate 38-14 win-loss record in 2025, 19-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Charlton | Santillan |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 11 | 16 |
| Pts | 43-31 | 61-45 |
| Total Points | 74 | 106 |
| Winners | 18 | 28 |
| %Winners | 42% | 46% |
Both Charlton and Santillan played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Charlton has played 1 set more than Santillan (3 vs 2). However, it’s interesting to notice that Charlton played 5 games less than Santillan. The Australian scored 18 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian bagged 28 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Charlton | Santillan |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 3 |
| 1st in | 21/38 | 38/52 |
| %1st in | 55% | 73% |
| 1st pts | 18/21 | 28/38 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 5/14 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 36% |
Charlton recorded 2 aces . Santillan blasted 3 aces . Charlton won 86% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Santillan won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 36% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Charlton | Santillan |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 5 |
| Converted | 1/1 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 100% | 56% |
| Conceded | 0 | 2 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Joshua broke his opponent once with a 100% conversion rate. The Australian pretty solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Akira broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Akira conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Charlton | |||
| Q1 Rai |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 1-0 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 11 | 11 | |
| pts | 43-31 | 43-31 | |
| Total points | 74 | 74 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 21/38 | 21/38 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 18/21 | 18/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 9/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/1 | 1/1 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Santillan | |||
| Q1 Zeng |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 61-45 | 61-45 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 38/52 | 38/52 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 28/38 | 28/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/14 | 5/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 36% | 36% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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