
Keegan Smith and Li Tu will face off in the 2nd round of the Wuning 2 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm 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 Li Tu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Li Tu is the pick to win this match.
Li Tu -> 1.62
Keegan Smith -> 2.13
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Prediction and head to head Keegan Smith vs. Li Tu
This will be the 2nd time that Keegan Smith and Li Tu play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Smith (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Smith won 6-7(5) 6-0 6-3 in the 1st round in the Lexington Challenger back in 2022.
Keegan Smith
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 39-27 | 13-14 | 4-2 | 18-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 51-22 | 34-12 | 0-0 | 17-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-26 | 36-21 | 0-1 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-26 | 31-20 | 0-0 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-24 | 26-14 | 3-4 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 301 (career-high), Smith got to the 2nd round after defeating Enzo Aguiard 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Aguiard (6-4 6-4). During the match, Smith scored 76 points vs Aguiard’s 62. The American was quite aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Talking about the service games, Smith made 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Keegan Smith conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Smith put 82% of his first serves in, winning 76% (41/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. Keegan broke Aguiard twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Smith has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (232-137). 2-4 on hard in 2026. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Smith has an aggregate 177-95 record in the last years on hard.
Keegan’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Salem.
Keegan has an aggregate 18-10 win-loss record in 2026, 2-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Wuning 2 Challenger
Li Tu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 21-16 | 19-12 | 0-3 | 2-1 | 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. 381, Tu reached the 2nd round after defeating Hayato Matsuoka 6-3 7-6(5).
In the 1st round, Tu had a good straight sets win against Matsuoka (6-3 7-65). During the match Tu scored 70 points vs Matsuoka’s 60. Li was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Tu blasted 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Li Tu was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (31/39) of his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Li broke Matsuoka 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
The Australian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Burnie.
The Australian has an overall 16-8 win-loss record in 2026, 16-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Smith | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 22 |
| Pts | 76-62 | 70-60 |
| Total Points | 138 | 130 |
| Winners | 41 | 31 |
| %Winners | 54% | 44% |
Both Smith and Tu played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Smith and Tu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Smith played 2 games less than Tu. Keegan scored 41 winners (54% of the total points). On the other side, Li bagged 31 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Smith | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 8 |
| 1st in | 54/66 | 39/67 |
| %1st in | 82% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 41/54 | 31/39 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 6/12 | 16/28 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 57% |
Smith struck 5 aces . Tu made 8 aces . Smith won 76% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Tu won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Smith | Tu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/5 | 3/4 |
| % Converted | 40% | 75% |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 |
| Saved | 2 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Smith broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Smith quite strong on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 2 break points. Li broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Li conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Smith | |||
| R1 Aguiard |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 76-62 | 76-62 | |
| Total points | 138 | 138 | |
| Winners | 41 | 41 | |
| %Winners | 54% | 54% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 54/66 | 54/66 | |
| % 1st in | 82% | 82% | |
| 1st pts | 41/54 | 41/54 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Tu | |||
| R1 Matsuoka |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 70-60 | 70-60 | |
| Total points | 130 | 130 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 39/67 | 39/67 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 31/39 | 31/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/28 | 16/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Wuning 2 Challenger
- Justin BoulaisBoulais – Philip SekulicSekulic (4-6 7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Keegan SmithSmith – Enzo AguiardAguiard (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Moerani BouzigeBouzige – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Sergey FominFomin – Daniil OstapenkovOstapenkov (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Fajing SunSun – Tai SachSach (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Jie CuiCui (4-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Sanhui ShinShin – Mitsuki Wei Kang LeongWei Kang Leong (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Leo VithoontienVithoontien – Yaojie ZengZeng (6-4 6-75 6-1) – See score progression
- Maximus JonesJones – Omar JasikaJasika (6-4 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
- Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Aoran WangWang (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Li TuTu – Hayato MatsuokaMatsuoka (6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Charles BroomBroom – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Blake EllisEllis – Linang XiaoXiao (4-6 7-66 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexandr BindaBinda – Alastair GrayGray (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Giles HusseyHussey – Arthur WeberWeber (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Buvaysar GadamauriGadamauri – Braden ShickShick (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Sergey FominFomin – Daniil OstapenkovOstapenkov (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Moerani BouzigeBouzige – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Sanhui ShinShin – Mitsuki Wei Kang LeongWei Kang Leong (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Maximus JonesJones – Omar JasikaJasika (6-4 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
- Fajing SunSun – Tai SachSach (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Aoran WangWang (6-3 7-6(4)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Blake EllisEllis – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fajing SunSun – Khumoun SultanovSultanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sergey FominFomin – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sanhui ShinShin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Buvaysar GadamauriGadamauri – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Keegan SmithSmith – Li TuTu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Justin BoulaisBoulais – (2-1) – H2H and prediction








