Giulio Zeppieri and Fajing Sun will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Hangzhou Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm 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 Giulio Zeppieri who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Giulio Zeppieri is the pick to win this match.
Giulio Zeppieri -> 1.32
Fajing Sun -> 3.38

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Prediction and head to head Giulio Zeppieri vs. Fajing Sun

There is no head to head record between Giulio Zeppieri and Fajing Sun since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Giulio Zeppieri

Ranked no. 169, Giulio got to the 1^st round after defeating Liam Draxl 6-7(5) 6-1 6-3 and Dalibor Svrcina 6-1 6-4.

In the qualifications, Zeppieri had a good straight sets win against Svrcina (6-1 6-4). During the match, Zeppieri scored 63 points vs Svrcina’s 45. Zeppieri was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Regarding the service games, Zeppieri managed to score 5 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults. Giulio Zeppieri was pretty efficient on serve to win 82% (23/28) of his 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Italian broke Svrcina 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Italian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has dropped 1 set in this event to win 59% of the points he played.

Zeppieri has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 56% of his matches (192-149). 16-7 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Zeppieri has a composed32-18 match record in the last 8 years on hard.

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Shanghai Challenger where he defeated Yasutaka Uchiyama in the final 7-6(2) 7-5.

The Italian has an aggregate 35-20 win-loss record in 2025, 16-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Hangzhou

The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.

Fajing Sun

Ranked no. 236, Sun will start his run in Hangzhou after he played his last match in the Shanghai Challenger where he lost 2-6 6-2 6-4

to Jasika in the 2^nd round on the 4^th of September.

Fajing has an aggregate 19-17 win-loss record in 2025, 19-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Wuxi Challenger where he beat Alex Bolt in the final 7-6(4) 6-4.

In terms of his career, The Chinese has an overall 284-221 record. He has a positive 239-177 record on hard.

Previously in Hangzhou

The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Hangzhou

• Learner TienTien – Mariano NavoneNavone (5-7 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yibing WuWu – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (4-6 7-6⁵ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aleksandar VukicVukic – David GoffinGoffin (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Valentin RoyerRoyer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Adam WaltonWalton – Sebastian KordaKorda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Fajing SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-1) – H2H and prediction