Alastair Gray and Li Tu will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Wuning 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alastair Gray who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alastair Gray is the pick to win this match.
Alastair Gray -> 1.84
Li Tu -> 1.84
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Prediction and head to head Alastair Gray vs. Li Tu
There is no head to head record between Alastair Gray and Li Tu since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Alastair Gray
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 30-21 | 17-14 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 43-18 | 25-8 | 0-0 | 11-5 | 2-4 | 5-1 |
| 2024 | 26-14 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2023 | 26-12 | 15-6 | 0-0 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
| 2022 | 53-26 | 18-11 | 0-0 | 20-6 | 9-7 | 6-2 |
Ranked no. 379, Gray got to the 2nd round after defeating Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-3 4-3 ret..
In the 1st round against Uchiyama, Alastair had a free pass after Uchiyama retired on a 6-3 4-3 . scoreline.
Gray has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 66% of his matches (222-115). 4-3 on hard in 2026. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Gray has an aggregate 136-63 match record in the last years on hard.
The Brit’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Maanshan.
The Brit has an aggregate 11-6 win-loss record in 2026, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Wuning 1 Challenger
The Brit has never competed in this tournament before.
Li Tu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 19-14 | 19-11 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 17-23 | 11-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-28 | 37-21 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-32 | 29-19 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-25 | 34-16 | 15-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 416, Tu reached the 2nd round after defeating Pavle Marinkov 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Marinkov (6-2 6-3). During the match Tu scored 57 points vs Marinkov’s 36. Tu was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Tu bagged 15 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Li Tu lost the serve once. Furthermore, Tu put 62% of his first serves in, winning 96% (27/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (7/17) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Marinkov 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Li’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Burnie.
Tu has a compiled 13-7 win-loss record in 2026, 13-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
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H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gray | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 17 |
| Pts | 54-42 | 57-36 |
| Total Points | 96 | 93 |
| Winners | 23 | 27 |
| %Winners | 43% | 47% |
Both Gray and Tu played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Gray has played 1 set more than Tu (3 vs 2). However, it’s interesting to notice that Gray played 1 game less than Tu. The Brit scored 23 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Tu bagged 27 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gray | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 15 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 15 |
| 1st in | 31/52 | 28/45 |
| %1st in | 60% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 23/31 | 27/28 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 96% |
| 2nd pts | 14/21 | 7/17 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 41% |
Gray fired 7 aces . Tu bagged 15 aces . Gray won 74% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Tu won 96% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 41% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gray | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/3 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 67% | 50% |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Gray broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Alastair was rock solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Australian broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Tu conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Gray | |||
| R1 Uchiyama |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 4-3 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 54-42 | 54-42 | |
| Total points | 96 | 96 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 31/52 | 31/52 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 23/31 | 23/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/21 | 14/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Tu | |||
| R1 Marinkov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 57-36 | 57-36 | |
| Total points | 93 | 93 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 15 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 28/45 | 28/45 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 27/28 | 27/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 96% | 96% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/17 | 7/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 41% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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