Jurij Rodionov and Ji Sung Nam will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Taipei Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:30 pm on COURT 1. 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 Jurij Rodionov who should win in 2 sets.
Jurij Rodionov -> 1.106
Ji Sung Nam -> 5.45
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Prediction and head to head Jurij Rodionov vs. Ji Sung Nam
There is no head to head record between Jurij Rodionov and Ji Sung Nam since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Jurij Rodionov
40 - 28win/loss
177
87
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41-29 | 17-12 | 14-10 | 10-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 27-32 | 10-10 | 6-12 | 11-7 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-33 | 3-6 | 15-13 | 21-11 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 45-31 | 5-5 | 16-11 | 21-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-28 | 2-4 | 2-7 | 13-13 | 3-3 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 161, Rodionov will start his run in the Taipei Challenger after he played his last match in the Seoul Challenger where he lost 6-4 3-6 6-2 to Ymer in the quarter on the 31st of October.
The Austrian has a composed 40-28 win-loss record in 2025, 9-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Bonn Challenger where he defeated Timofey Skatov in the final 3-6 6-2 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Jurij has an overall 313-241 record. He has a positive 109-66 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Taipei Challenger
Jurij has never competed in this tournament before.
Ji Sung Nam
20 - 13win/loss
692
236
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-16 | 18-12 | 0-1 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 14-21 | 12-10 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-6 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 15-20 | 13-15 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-19 | 24-13 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 4-7 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 765, the Korean got to the 1st round after beating Ren Nakamura 6-1 6-2 and Takeru Yuzuki 7-6(5) 6-1.
In the qualifications, Ji had a good straight sets win against Yuzuki (7-65 6-1). During the match Sung Nam scored 75 points vs Yuzuki’s 58. Ji was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Sung Nam made 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Ji Sung Nam conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Sung Nam put 70% of his first serves in, winning 88% (38/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. The Korean broke Yuzuki twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Korean started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 59% of the points he played.
Sung Nam’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Daegu.
The Korean has an overall 20-13 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Taipei Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Taipei Challenger
- Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Evan ZhuZhu (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James McCabeMcCabe – Cing-Yang MengMeng (6-75 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Taro DanielDaniel (2-6 7-62 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jason JungJung – Arthur WeberWeber (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Jurij RodionovRodionov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Wishaya TrongcharoenchaikulTrongcharoenchaikul – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sidharth RawatRawat – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Kaichi UchidaUchida (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime JanvierJanvier – Tung-Lin WuWu (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marek GengelGengel – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Uisung ParkPark – Elias YmerYmer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Kuan-Yi LeeLee (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Akira SantillanSantillan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Shinji HazawaHazawa – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taisei IchikawaIchikawa – Neil OberleitnerOberleitner (0-0) – H2H and prediction