Karen Khachanov and Juncheng Shang will play each other in the 2nd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 9:00 pm on STADIUM COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karen Khachanov who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Karen Khachanov is the pick to win this match.
Karen Khachanov -> 1.5
Juncheng Shang -> 2.59

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Prediction and head to head Karen Khachanov vs. Juncheng Shang

There is no head to head record between Karen Khachanov and Juncheng Shang since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Karen Khachanov

Karen Khachanov

30 - 20win/loss

Hard
13-10
I Hard
0-1
Clay
9-6
Grass
8-3
Rank
18
High
8
LWWLLLLLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 32-24 13-11 9-6 2-4 8-3 0-0
2024 37-22 14-12 8-4 14-3 1-3 0-0
2023 34-18 18-10 10-5 6-3 0-0 0-0
2022 36-25 17-11 9-7 6-5 4-2 0-0
2021 35-24 17-9 5-6 8-6 5-3 0-0

Ranked no. 10, Khachanov will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Beijing where he lost 4-6 7-6(5) 6-4 to Muller in the 1st round on the 25th of September.

The Russian has an overall 30-20 win-loss record in 2025, 13-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Karen’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Toronto.

Talking about his overall career, Karen has an overall 447-292 record. He has a positive 177-115 record on hard.

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019 and 2023. See his history.

Shanghai
Khachanov's Record

Juncheng Shang

Juncheng Shang

5 - 7win/loss

Hard
5-7
I Hard
0-0
Rank
253
High
47
LWWLLWLLLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 6-8 6-8 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 42-27 25-10 8-7 2-6 7-4 0-0
2023 31-23 21-14 3-3 0-2 7-4 0-0
2022 40-24 17-8 15-10 7-5 1-1 0-0
2021 18-5 6-3 12-2 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 237, the Chinese reached the 2nd round after defeating Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-4 3-6 6-3.

In the 1st round, Juncheng defeated Kovacevic (6-4 3-6 6-3). During the match Shang scored 82 points vs Kovacevic’s 79. Juncheng was very aggressive to blast 40 winners.

Talking about serving, Shang blasted 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Juncheng Shang was very efficient on serve to win 71% (40/56) of his 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Juncheng broke Kovacevic twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Shang’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Hong Kong.

The Chinese has a compiled 5-7 win-loss record in 2025, 5-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See his history.

Shanghai
Shang's Record

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