Daniel Evans and Oliver Crawford will square off in the 2^nd round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

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

As per the initial odds, Daniel Evans is the pick to win this match.
Daniel Evans -> 1.82
Oliver Crawford -> 1.9

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Prediction and head to head Daniel Evans vs. Oliver Crawford

There is no head to head record between Daniel Evans and Oliver Crawford since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Daniel Evans

Ranked no. 157, the Brit reached the 2^nd round after beating Charles Chen 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Evans had a good straight sets win against Chen (6-4 6-4). During the match, Evans scored 59 points vs Chen’s 52. Daniel was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Evans bagged 5 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Daniel Evans was quite efficient on serve to win 85% (29/34) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Daniel broke Chen twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Evans has winning record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (279-220). 7-9 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Evans has an overall 138-104 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Evans has a composed 21-24 win-loss record in 2025, 7-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger

Daniel has never competed in this tournament before.

Oliver Crawford

Ranked no. 184 (career-high), Oliver got to the 2^nd round after beating Linang Xiao 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Crawford had a good straight sets win against Xiao (6-3 6-4). During the match Crawford scored 56 points vs Xiao’s 45. The American was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Crawford bagged 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Oliver Crawford was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 76% (28/37) of his 1st serve and 71% (15/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Crawford was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Xiao twice.

Oliver’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Chennai,M15 Zahra,M15 Villena,M25 Luan,M25 Shenzhen,M25 Bengaluru,M25 Sabadell and the Zhangjiagang Challenger.

Crawford has a compiled 59-19 win-loss record in 2025, 43-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Evans	Crawford
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	19
Pts	59-52	56-45
Total Points	111	101
Winners	29	28
%Winners	49%	50%

Both Evans and Crawford played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Evans and Crawford have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Evans played 1 game more than Crawford. Evans scored 29 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Oliver managed to score 28 winners (50%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Evans	Crawford
Aces	5	5
Avg per match	5	5
1st in	34/55	37/58
%1st in	62%	64%
1st pts	29/34	28/37
%1st pts	85%	76%
2nd pts	12/21	15/21
%2nd pts	57%	71%

Evans made 5 aces . Crawford managed to score 5 aces . Evans won 85% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Crawford won 76% 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	Evans	Crawford
Won	2	2
Converted	2/5	2/2
% Converted	40%	100%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3	3
% Saved	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Evans broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. The Brit was rock solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 3 break points. The American broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. The American was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

Evans
	R1 Chen	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	59-52	59-52
Total points	111	111
Winners	29	29
%Winners	49%	49%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	34/55	34/55
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	29/34	29/34
% 1st pts	85%	85%
2nd pts	12/21	12/21
% 2nd pts	57%	57%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/5	2/5
Converted %	40%	40%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3/3	3
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Crawford
	R1 Xiao	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	56-45	56-45
Total points	101	101
Winners	28	28
%Winners	50%	50%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	37/58	37/58
% 1st in	64%	64%
1st pts	28/37	28/37
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	15/21	15/21
% 2nd pts	71%	71%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/2	2/2
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3/3	3
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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