Taro Daniel and Marat Sharipov will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taro Daniel who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Taro Daniel is the pick to win this match.
Taro Daniel -> 1.53
Marat Sharipov -> 2.375

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Prediction and head to head Taro Daniel vs. Marat Sharipov

There is no head to head record between Taro Daniel and Marat Sharipov since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Taro Daniel

Ranked no. 168, the Japanese will start his run in the Guangzhou Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 2-6 6-4 6-1 to Struff in the qualifications on the 21^st of August.

Taro has an aggregate 7-24 win-loss record in 2025, 5-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Taro has an overall 578-437 record. He has a positive 206-167 record on hard.

Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2016. See his history.

Marat Sharipov

Ranked no. 265, Sharipov will start his run in the Guangzhou Challenger after he played his last match in the Shanghai Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Crawford in the 1^st round on the 3^rd of September.

Sharipov has a composed 38-20 win-loss record in 2025, 18-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Marat’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Uriage.

In terms of his career, The Russian has an overall 180-91 record. He has a positive 87-30 record on hard.

Tennis Scores in Guangzhou Challenger

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