Oliver Crawford and Linang Xiao will play each other in the 1^st round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Oliver Crawford who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Oliver Crawford is the pick to win this match.
Oliver Crawford -> 1.25
Linang Xiao -> 3.64

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Prediction and head to head Oliver Crawford vs. Linang Xiao

There is no head to head record between Oliver Crawford and Linang Xiao since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Oliver Crawford

Ranked no. 184 (career-high), the American will start his run in the Guangzhou Challenger after he played his last match in the Shanghai Challenger where he lost 6-4 1-6 6-4 to Noguchi in the 2^nd round on the 4^th of September.

The American has an aggregate 58-19 win-loss record in 2025, 42-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The American’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Chennai,M15 Zahra,M15 Villena,M25 Luan,M25 Shenzhen,M25 Bengaluru,M25 Sabadell and the Zhangjiagang Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Crawford has an overall 320-144 record. He has a positive 135-55 record on hard.

Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Linang Xiao

Ranked no. 641, Xiao will start his run in the Guangzhou Challenger after he played his last match in the Shanghai Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Evans in the 1^st round on the 3^rd of September.

The Chinese has an overall 19-18 win-loss record in 2025, 12-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Linang’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Luan.

In terms of his career, Xiao has an overall 115-88 record. He has a positive 100-77 record on hard.

Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2024. See his history

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Tennis Scores in Guangzhou Challenger

• Alexandr BindaBinda – Evan ZhuZhu (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (4-6 6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Yuta KikuchiKikuchi – Hanyi LiuLiu (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Tianhui ZhangZhang – Wishaya TrongcharoenchaikulTrongcharoenchaikul (7-6⁴ 7-5) – See score progression
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Seita WatanabeWatanabe (7-5 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Seita WatanabeWatanabe (7-5 7-6(4)) – See score progression
• Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Tomohiro MasabayashiMasabayashi (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Yuta KikuchiKikuchi – Hanyi LiuLiu (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Alexandr BindaBinda – Evan ZhuZhu (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (4-6 6-3 7-6(4)) – See score progression
• Tianhui ZhangZhang – Wishaya TrongcharoenchaikulTrongcharoenchaikul (7-6(4) 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Daniel EvansEvans – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Rigele TeTe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Billy HarrisHarris – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Pavel KotovKotov – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Linang XiaoXiao (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gauthier OnclinOnclin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction