Petr Bar Biryukov and Linang Xiao will play each other in the qualifications of the Jinan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Petr Bar Biryukov who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Petr Bar Biryukov is the pick to win this match.
Petr Bar Biryukov -> 1.48
Linang Xiao -> 2.52
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Prediction and head to head Petr Bar Biryukov vs. Linang Xiao
There is no head to head record between Petr Bar Biryukov and Linang Xiao since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Petr Bar Biryukov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48-30 | 48-29 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-23 | 43-22 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-20 | 15-9 | 9-9 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-17 | 25-14 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-18 | 3-1 | 2-10 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 304 (career-high), the Russian reached the qualifications after defeating Evan Zhu 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Bar Biryukov had a good straight sets win against Zhu (6-2 6-4). During the match, Bar Biryukov scored 63 points vs Zhu’s 40. Bar Biryukov was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Bar Biryukov bagged 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Petr Bar Biryukov was quite effective on serve to win 79% (23/29) of his 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Petr broke Zhu 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Bar Biryukov has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 61% of his matches (157-102). 41-23 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Bar Biryukov has a compiled127-69 match record in the last 5 years on hard.
Bar Biryukov’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Nonthaburi,M15 Astana and M25 Guiyang.
The Russian has an aggregate 41-24 win-loss record in 2025, 41-23 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Jinan Challenger
Linang Xiao
20 - 20win/loss
798
637
LWLLWLLLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21-23 | 14-16 | 0-1 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 17-21 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-27 | 38-25 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-16 | 30-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 643, the Chinese reached the qualifications after defeating Omar Jasika 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Linang had a good straight sets win against Jasika (6-2 6-4). During the match Xiao scored 60 points vs Jasika’s 42. Linang was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Xiao scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Linang Xiao was pretty effective on serve to win 93% (26/28) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Chinese was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Jasika 3 times.
Xiao’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Luan.
Linang has an aggregate 20-20 win-loss record in 2025, 13-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Jinan Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bar Biryukov | Xiao |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 |
| Pts | 63-40 | 60-42 |
| Total Points | 103 | 102 |
| Winners | 23 | 26 |
| %Winners | 37% | 43% |
Both Bar Biryukov and Xiao played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Bar Biryukov and Xiao have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (18). Petr scored 23 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese managed to score 26 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bar Biryukov | Xiao |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
| 1st in | 29/52 | 28/48 |
| %1st in | 56% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 26/28 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 93% |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 11/20 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 55% |
Bar Biryukov fired 3 aces . Xiao blasted 1 ace . Bar Biryukov won 79% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Xiao won 93% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bar Biryukov | Xiao |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 3/3 |
| % Converted | 67% | 100% |
| Conceded | 2 | 0 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 50% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Russian broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Petr surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Chinese broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Linang was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Bar Biryukov | |||
| Q1 Zhu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 63-40 | 63-40 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 29/52 | 29/52 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 14/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Xiao | |||
| Q1 Jasika |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 60-42 | 60-42 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 28/48 | 28/48 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 26/28 | 26/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 93% | 93% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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