Daniel Evans and Linang Xiao will face off in the 1st round of the Shanghai Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Daniel Evans who should win in 2 sets.
Daniel Evans -> 1.157
Linang Xiao -> 4.75
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Prediction and head to head Daniel Evans vs. Linang Xiao
There is no head to head record between Daniel Evans and Linang Xiao since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Daniel Evans
19 - 23win/loss
183
21
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22-25 | 8-10 | 6-7 | 1-3 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-26 | 8-11 | 3-8 | 4-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-27 | 11-15 | 5-7 | 2-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-27 | 19-13 | 4-7 | 6-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-24 | 12-11 | 6-6 | 3-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 136, the Brit will start his run in the Shanghai Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-4 3-6 7-5 to Lloyd in the qualifications on the 18th of August.
Daniel has an aggregate 19-23 win-loss record in 2025, 5-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Brit has an overall 595-404 record. He has a positive 257-159 record on hard.
Previously in the Shanghai Challenger
The Brit has never competed in this tournament before.
Linang Xiao
19 - 17win/loss
781
637
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21-23 | 14-16 | 0-1 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 17-21 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-27 | 38-25 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-16 | 30-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 642, Linang will start his run in the Shanghai Challenger after he played his last match in the Zhangjiagang Challenger where he lost 7-6(6) 6-1 to Noguchi in the 1st round on the 26th of August.
Xiao has a composed 19-17 win-loss record in 2025, 12-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Chinese’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Luan.
In terms of his career, The Chinese has an overall 115-87 record. He has a positive 100-76 record on hard.
Previously in the Shanghai Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Shanghai Challenger
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- Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-6 7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bernard TomicTomic – Yaojie ZengZeng (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Jie CuiCui (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Omar JasikaJasika – Rigele TeTe (4-6 6-2 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yi ZhouZhou – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (2-6 7-65 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fajing SunSun – James McCabeMcCabe (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Daniel EvansEvans – Linang XiaoXiao (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fajing SunSun – Omar JasikaJasika (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Bernard TomicTomic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – (0-0) – H2H and prediction