Tsung-Hao Huang and Kaito Uesugi will play each other in the 1^st round of the Zhangjiagang Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 9:00 pm on Court 7. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tsung-Hao Huang who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tsung-Hao Huang is the pick to win this match.
Tsung-Hao Huang -> 1.71
Kaito Uesugi -> 2.04

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Prediction and head to head Tsung-Hao Huang vs. Kaito Uesugi

There is no head to head record between Tsung-Hao Huang and Kaito Uesugi since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Tsung-Hao Huang

Ranked no. 550, Tsung-Hao reached the 1^st round after defeating Shunsuke Nakagawa 6-3 6-4 and Ji Sung Nam 6-2 6-4.

In the qualifications, Huang had a good straight sets win against Sung Nam (6-2 6-4). During the match, Huang scored 60 points vs Sung Nam’s 46. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about the service games, Huang struck 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Tsung-Hao Huang lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Huang put 62% of his first serves in, winning 65% (22/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the 2nd serve. Tsung-Hao broke Sung Nam 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Tsung-Hao started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 57% of the points he played.

Huang has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 54% of his matches (173-146). 30-19 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Huang has an overall161-126 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.

The Chinese’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Osaka and M15 Luan.

The Chinese has an aggregate 31-21 win-loss record in 2025, 30-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger

Huang has never competed in this tournament before.

Kaito Uesugi

Ranked no. 897, the Japanese got to the 1^st round after defeating Jake Delaney w/o and James Watt 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications, Kaito had a good straight sets win against Watt (6-2 6-3). During the match Uesugi scored 65 points vs Watt’s 46. The Japanese was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Uesugi was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Kaito Uesugi was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (24/31) of his 1st serve and 71% (17/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kaito was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Watt 3 times.

Kaito has an overall 1-4 win-loss record in 2025, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Huang	Uesugi
Match played	2	1
Tot Set	4	2
Tot Games	37	17
Pts	127-97	65-46
Total Points	224	111
Winners	44	24
%Winners	35%	37%

Huang played 2 matches while Uesugi competed in 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Huang has played 2 sets more than Uesugi (4 vs 2). Therefore, Huang played 20 games more than Uesugi. The Chinese scored 44 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Kaito bagged 24 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Huang	Uesugi
Aces	2	0
Avg per match	1	0
1st in	65/110	31/55
%1st in	59%	56%
1st pts	44/65	24/31
%1st pts	68%	77%
2nd pts	26/45	17/24
%2nd pts	58%	71%

Huang bagged 2 aces (1 per match). Uesugi didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Huang won 68% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Uesugi won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Huang	Uesugi
Won	9	3
Converted	9/22	3/3
% Converted	41%	100%
Conceded	7	3
Saved	3	3
% Saved	43%	100%
Times Broken	4	0

The Chinese broke his opponents 9 times with a 41% conversion rate. Tsung-Hao lost his serve 4 times and he saved 43% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Japanese was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

Huang
	Q1 Nakagawa	Q3 Sung Nam	Total
Score	6-3 6-4	6-2 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	19	18	37
pts	67-51	60-46	127-97
Total points	118	106	224
Winners	22	22	44
%Winners	33%	37%	35%
SERVE
Aces	0	2	2
Double Faults	0	2	2
1st in	31/55	34/55	65/110
% 1st in	56%	62%	59%
1st pts	22/31	22/34	44/65
% 1st pts	71%	65%	68%
2nd pts	15/24	11/21	26/45
% 2nd pts	63%	52%	58%
Breaks
Won	4	5	9
Converted	4/12	5/10	9/22
Converted %	33%	50%	41%
Conceded	3	4	7
Saved	1/3	2/4	3
Saved %	33%	50%	42%
Times Broken	2	2	4

Uesugi
	Q1 Delaney	Q3 Watt	Total
Score	w/o	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	–	2	2
Tot Games	–	17	17
pts	–	65-46	65-46
Total points	–	111	111
Winners	–	24	24
%Winners	–	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	–	0	0
Double Faults	–	0	0
1st in	–	31/55	31/55
% 1st in	–	56%	56%
1st pts	–	24/31	24/31
% 1st pts	–	77%	77%
2nd pts	–	17/24	17/24
% 2nd pts	–	71%	71%
Breaks
Won	–	3	3
Converted	–	3/3	3/3
Converted %	–	100%	100%
Conceded	–	3	3
Saved	–	3/3	3
Saved %	–	100%	50%
Times Broken	–	0	0

Tennis Scores in Zhangjiagang Challenger

• Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Hanyi LiuLiu (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Takeru YuzukiYuzuki (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Yuta KikuchiKikuchi – Charles ChenChen (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Kaito UesugiUesugi – James WattWatt (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Joshua CharltonCharlton – Akira SantillanSantillan (7-6⁴ 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
• Yuta KikuchiKikuchi – Charles ChenChen (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Kaito UesugiUesugi – James WattWatt (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Joshua CharltonCharlton – Akira SantillanSantillan (7-6(4) 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
• Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Hanyi LiuLiu (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Takeru YuzukiYuzuki (6-4 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Bernard TomicTomic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Yuta KikuchiKikuchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Filip PeliwoPeliwo – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kaito UesugiUesugi – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Fajing SunSun – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Oliver CrawfordCrawford (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sergey FominFomin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jie CuiCui – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sanhui ShinShin – Woobin ShinShin (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Moerani BouzigeBouzige – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Joshua CharltonCharlton – Rigele TeTe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Linang XiaoXiao – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (1-0) – H2H and prediction