James Duckworth and Alex Bolt will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Jingshan Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:00 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 James Duckworth who should win in 3 sets.
James Duckworth -> 1.57
Alex Bolt -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Alex Bolt
This will be the 4th time that James Duckworth and Alex Bolt play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Duckworth (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Duckworth won 7-6(2) 6-3 in the 1st round in the Melbourne Challenger back in 2013.
James Duckworth
27 - 26win/loss
106
46
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-33 | 18-19 | 6-4 | 10-4 | 5-6 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-29 | 23-14 | 2-3 | 7-7 | 10-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-28 | 43-21 | 1-3 | 5-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-27 | 20-18 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 4-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-24 | 15-9 | 1-2 | 12-9 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 109, James will start his run in the Jingshan Challenger after he played his last match in Chengdu where he lost 7-6(4) 7-6(0) to Daniel in the qualifications on the 16th of September.
Duckworth has a composed 27-26 win-loss record in 2025, 15-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was winning the title the San Luis Potosi Challenger where he overcame Max Wiskandt in the final 6-1 6-1.
Talking about his overall career, Duckworth has an overall 518-345 record. He has a positive 303-197 record on hard.
Previously in the Jingshan Challenger
Duckworth has never competed in this tournament before.
Alex Bolt
21 - 19win/loss
188
125
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31-21 | 22-15 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 48-78 | 26-21 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 21-56 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-22 | 22-17 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-10 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-18 | 7-6 | 0-7 | 2-2 | 10-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 221, Bolt got to the 1st round after defeating Evan Zhu 6-3 3-6 6-3 and Yusuke Takahashi 6-3 7-6(4).
In the qualifications, Bolt had a good straight sets win against Takahashi (6-3 7-64). During the match Bolt scored 75 points vs Takahashi’s 58. Bolt was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Bolt blasted 10 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Alex Bolt was quite effective on serve to win 94% (29/31) of his 1st serve and 52% (15/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Australian broke Takahashi 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Bolt started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
The Australian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Wuxi Challenger.
Bolt has an overall 21-19 win-loss record in 2025, 12-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Jingshan Challenger
- Liam DraxlDraxl – Timofey SkatovSkatov (6-4 4-6 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Tristan BoyerBoyer (6-72 7-66 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gauthier OnclinOnclin – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (7-64 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bernard TomicTomic – Tianhui ZhangZhang (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tsung-Hao Huang/Uisung ParkHuang/Uisung Park – Jie Cui/Rigele TeCui/Rigele Te (6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – August HolmgrenHolmgren (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex BoltBolt – James DuckworthDuckworth (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Omar JasikaJasika – Jie CuiCui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rigele TeTe – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Brandon HoltHolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Valentin RoyerRoyer – Borna GojoGojo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Sanhui ShinShin (1-0) – H2H and prediction