

What Time Will Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard Play Against Sun Fajing?
Perricard and Fajing are on the Day 1 Schedule at Chengdu Open 2024 on Wednesday 18 September 2024. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.
Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?
[7] Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (FRA) and [WC] Sun Fajing (CHN) will face each other for the first time in their careers. Perricard, 21 years old and currently ranked 51st in the world, reached a career-high ranking of 44 in July. In 2024, he had a record of 9-7, winning the Lyon title and making his debut in Chengdu. On his way to winning the Lyon title, he earned his first Top 30 wins by defeating No. 19 Bublik in the semifinals and No. 29 Etcheverry in the final. Perricard broke into the Top 100 in May 2024 after capturing his first ATP Tour title in Lyon as a wildcard ranked 117th. He also had notable success at the 2024 Wimbledon as a lucky loser, becoming the first lucky loser to reach the fourth round since 1995. In his career, Perricard has a 50-33 record in Challenger matches, including four titles. As a junior, he reached a career-high ranking of No. 4 and had notable results at the 2021 Roland Garros, reaching the boysโ singles semifinals and winning the boysโ doubles title.
Perricard aims to end a 4-match losing streak, with his last win coming against Ruusuvuori in Washington in July, which was his only
hard court ATP Tour win of the season.
Moyuka Uchijima
Olga Danilovic
Cori Gauff
Jasmine Paolini
Elina Svitolina
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
Jelena Ostapenko
Iga Swiatek
Fabian Marozsan
Zizou Bergs
Carlos Alcaraz
Alex De Minaur
Karen Khachanov
Holger Rune
Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah
Suzan Lamens
Alexander Zverev
Tallon Griekspoor
Aryna Sabalenka
Elise Mertens
Jessika Ponchet
Elena Gabriela Ruse
Francisco Cerundolo
Ben Shelton
Stefanos Tsitsipas
Arthur Fils
Ekaterina Alexandrova
Jessica Pegula
Sun Fajing, 27 years old and currently ranked 359th in the world, achieved a career-high ranking of 327 in June 2024. He did not play any professional matches for 27 months between January 2020 and April 2022, returning to the tour at the Salinas Challenger. Sun has captured 6 ITF Tour titles, with 5 of them coming on home soil in China. He has also made three Challenger quarterfinal appearances on home soil. As a junior, he made a Grand Slam boysโ singles appearance at the 2014 Australian Open. Sun is playing his second tour-level match after losing to Pacheco Mendez via retirement in the Davis Cup last year. He earned his biggest win of his career over No. 222 Hsu at the 2024 M25 Tianjin and aims to become the second Chinese match winner in Chengdu tournament history, following in the footsteps of Wu Di in 2016.
If Sun wins his match against Perricard, he would become the lowest-ranked Chengdu match winner in tournament history. The current lowest-ranked winners are Philip Sekulic (ranked 325) in 2023, Wu Di (ranked 193) in 2016, and Felix Auger-Aliassime (ranked 147) in 2018.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Perricard will win.
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