Li Tu and Kody Pearson will clash against each other in the quarter of the Wuning 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:00 am 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 Li Tu who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Li Tu is the pick to win this match.
Li Tu -> 1.075
Kody Pearson -> 6.35
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Prediction and head to head Li Tu vs. Kody Pearson
There is no head to head record between Li Tu and Kody Pearson since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
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, Li reached the quarter after beating Pavle Marinkov 6-2 6-3 and Alastair Gray 6-4 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Li had a good straight sets win against Gray (6-4 6-4). During the match, Tu scored 68 points vs Gray’s 55. Tu was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Tu recorded 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Li Tu was pretty effective on serve to win 86% (25/29) of his 1st serve and 71% (15/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Tu broke Gray twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
ATP Wuning 1 Challenger - Li Tu's projected path
Tu has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 62% of his matches (203-123). 14-7 on hard in 2026. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Tu has an aggregate153-84 record in the last 7 years on hard.
The Australian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Burnie.
Tu has a compiled 14-7 win-loss record in 2026, 14-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Wuning 1 Challenger
Tu has never competed in this tournament before.
Kody Pearson
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 8-12 | 8-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 10-21 | 8-17 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-18 | 18-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-16 | 10-9 | 1-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Kody got to the quarter after beating Matisse Bobichon 6-2 6-1, Hanyi Liu 2-6 7-6(5) 6-2, Zhao Zhao 6-7(7) 6-4 6-4 and Yi Zhou 6-4 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Zhou (6-4 6-4). During the match Pearson scored 61 points vs Zhou’s 50. Kody was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Pearson recorded 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Kody Pearson was exceptionally effective on serve to win 78% (31/40) of his 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Pearson was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Zhou 3 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Pearson started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
ATP Wuning 1 Challenger - Kody Pearson's projected path
Pearson has an aggregate 4-1 win-loss record in 2026, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
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H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tu | Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 10 |
| Tot Games | 37 | 97 |
| Pts | 125-91 | 323-287 |
| Total Points | 216 | 610 |
| Winners | 52 | 137 |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% |
Tu played 2 matches while Pearson competed in 4 matches. Pearson started his run from the qualifications while Tu had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Kody Pearson surrendered 2 sets while Li Tu hasn’t lost a set so far. Tu has played 6 set(s) less than Pearson (4 vs 10). Therefore, Tu played 60 games less than Pearson. The Australian scored 52 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian fired 137 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tu | Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 19 | 35 |
| Avg per match | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| 1st in | 57/95 | 183/284 |
| %1st in | 60% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 52/57 | 137/183 |
| %1st pts | 91% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 22/38 | 55/101 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 54% |
Tu fired 19 aces (9.5 per match). Pearson managed to score 35 aces (8.8 per match). Tu won 91% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Pearson won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tu | Pearson |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 15 |
| Converted | 6/15 | 15/42 |
| % Converted | 40% | 36% |
| Conceded | 1 | 14 |
| Saved | 0 | 8 |
| % Saved | 0% | 57% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 6 |
Tu broke his opponents 6 times with a 40% conversion rate. Tu dropped his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Kody broke his opponents 15 times with a 36% conversion rate. Kody conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.
| Tu | ||||
| R1 Marinkov |
R2 Gray |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 20 | 37 | |
| pts | 57-36 | 68-55 | 125-91 | |
| Total points | 93 | 123 | 216 | |
| Winners | 27 | 25 | 52 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 37% | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 15 | 4 | 19 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 28/45 | 29/50 | 57/95 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 58% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 27/28 | 25/29 | 52/57 | |
| % 1st pts | 96% | 86% | 91% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/17 | 15/21 | 22/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 71% | 58% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 2/7 | 6/15 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 29% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Pearson | ||||||
| Q1 Bobichon |
Q3 Liu |
R1 Zhao |
R2 Zhou |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | 2-6 7-65 6-2 | 6-77 6-4 6-4 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 29 | 33 | 20 | 97 | |
| pts | 60-35 | 88-91 | 114-111 | 61-50 | 323-287 | |
| Total points | 95 | 179 | 225 | 111 | 610 | |
| Winners | 19 | 41 | 46 | 31 | 137 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 47% | 40% | 51% | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 5 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 35 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 23/35 | 52/86 | 68/108 | 40/55 | 183/284 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 60% | 63% | 73% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 19/23 | 41/52 | 46/68 | 31/40 | 137/183 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 79% | 68% | 78% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/12 | 16/34 | 21/40 | 9/15 | 55/101 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 47% | 53% | 60% | 54% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 15 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 2/11 | 5/16 | 3/3 | 15/42 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 18% | 31% | 100% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 14 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 4/6 | 1/4 | 3/4 | 8 | |
| Saved % | – | 67% | 25% | 75% | 84% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |
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