Fajing Sun vs Jie CuiPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
Fajing Sun and Jie Cui have met 1 time since 2026; Jie Cui leads 1–0. Across all meetings Sun has taken 0 sets to Cui's 2. Their most recent meeting: Jie Cui won at Shanghai Challenger (2026).
Upcoming match
- Tournament
- Jinan Challenger
- Level
- ATP Challenger Tour
- Round
- 1st Round
- Surface
- Hard
- Date & time
- October 12 · 5:30 AM ET
Book odds
Set spread
Game spread
Record at prices like this
At 2.21 or longer, Fajing Sun has won 18 of 51 (35%). That is level with the 35% the price implied.
At 1.61 or shorter, Jie Cui has won 11 of 21 (52%). The price implied 65%, so Jie Cui has fallen 13 points short of it.
Book prices with the bookmaker margin removed, across every priced match we hold for each player. Green beats the price by 3 points or more, red falls that far short, grey is within 3 points. Samples under ten are not shown.
Jie Cui and Fajing Sun meet in the 1st Round of the Jinan Challenger on October 12 on hard court. Cui holds a 4-2 head-to-head record against Sun across six meetings. Sun ranks 303 in the world; Cui sits at 420.
Cui has won one of his last five matches and three of his last ten, though he is on a two-match losing streak. Sun has taken four of his last five and five of his last ten, with one loss in his current streak. On hard court over a recent sample, Cui holds a 40% win rate at 8-12, while Sun has posted 50% at 10-10.
Both players operate as frontrunners who build points through aggressive baseline play and tend to thrive when dictating rallies from inside the court. Cui has beaten common opponents Andre Ilagan and Rio Noguchi recently; Sun has losses to both men. The match will demand consistency from Cui, who has struggled to string wins together, and from Sun, who must sustain the steadier form he has shown over a longer stretch.
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Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Sun | Cui | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Fajing Sun | Jie Cui | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 67% | 24/36 | 79% | 22/28 |
| Wins a set when losing | 34% | 11/32 | 44% | 11/25 |
| Goes to a deciding set | 34% | 23/68 | 32% | 17/53 |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 55% | 17/31 | 62% | 13/21 |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 47% | 15/32 | 63% | 17/27 |
| Tiebreak sets won | 39% | 9/23 | 33% | 8/24 |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 88% | 28/32 | 74% | 23/31 |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 75% | 24/32 | 71% | 22/31 |
Colored rows are higher-is-better: green above 50%, red below. Favorite/underdog set by book odds; cover rows count only matches with odds on record. Head-to-head: 1 of 1 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Sun 0, Cui 1).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Sun
🏹 Frontrunner
Cui
🏹 Frontrunner
Matchup analysis
Both Fajing Sun and Jie Cui are 🏹 Frontrunner types. Mirror matchups usually come down to execution, fitness, and surface fit, across 280 matches in our dataset the historical split is about even.
Previous meetings
1 career meeting, newest first
Sep 8, 2026
Shanghai Challenger
H Hard · 1st Round
Prop Research
Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days
| Outcome | Sun | Cui | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome | Fajing Sun | Jie Cui | ||
| 1 or more | 95% | 18/19 | 100% | 10/10 |
| 3 or more | 68% | 13/19 | 70% | 7/10 |
| 5 or more | 47% | 9/19 | 30% | 3/10 |
| 10 or more | 0% | 0/19 | 10% | 1/10 |
| 15 or more | 0% | 0/19 | 0% | 0/10 |
| 20 or more | 0% | 0/19 | 0% | 0/10 |
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Sun | Cui |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 9–9 | 4–6 |
| Avg odds | 2.09 | 3.49 |
| ROI % | -9.8% | -8.9% |
| Units P/L | -1.77u | -0.89u |
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Sun | Cui |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | 1 | 1 |
| Events | 3 | 3 |
| Matches | 6 | 4 |
| Distance | 1,078 mi · 1,735 km | 1,361 mi · 2,191 km |
| Route | CHN | CHN |
Host country from each tournament in the last 30 days, including the current event even when a player arrived on a bye. Route is the order of countries visited; consecutive stops in the same country are shown once. Distance is the great-circle total between host cities, shown only when every stop in the window is geocoded. A rough fatigue signal, not a headline stat.
Common opponents
Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months
Cui has a higher win rate against shared opponents (78% vs Sun's 33%).
| Opponent | Sun | Cui |
|---|---|---|
| Alexis Galarneau | W 75 36 75 | W 64 62 |
| Yi Zhou | L 67 36 | L 67 46 |
| Petr Bar Biryukov | L 46 36 | W 64 62 |
| Andre Ilagan | L 36 67 | W 67 62 64 |
| Rio Noguchi | L 67 64 67 | W 76 76 |
| Giles Hussey | W 62 36 62 | W 63 63 |
| S D Prajwal Dev | W 62 76 | W 64 61 |
| Pavel Kotov | L 67 63 36 | W 62 36 64 |
| Yuta Shimizu | L 75 46 46 | L 62 06 46 |
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
Alibek Kachmazov
Wuning 3 Challenger · Quarterfinals
Oct 9
Kasidit Samrej
Wuning 3 Challenger · 2nd Round
Oct 8
Aoran Wang
Wuning 3 Challenger · 1st Round
Oct 6
Bernard Tomic
Jingshan Challenger · 1st Round
Sep 29
Roman Safiullin
Hangzhou Open - Hangzhou · 1st Round
Sep 24
Bernard Tomic
Hangzhou Open - Hangzhou · 3rd Round Qualifying
Sep 23
Matthew Dellavedova
Hangzhou Open - Hangzhou · 1st Round Qualifying
Sep 22
Alexander Binda
Guangzhou Challenger · 2nd Round
Sep 17
Aleksandar Vukic
Shanghai Rolex Masters - Shanghai · 1st Round Qualifying
Oct 5
Botic van de Zandschulp
China Open - Beijing · 3rd Round Qualifying
Sep 29
Daniel Altmaier
China Open - Beijing · 1st Round Qualifying
Sep 28
Adolfo Daniel Vallejo
Hangzhou Open - Hangzhou · 1st Round
Sep 24
Nicolai Budkov Kjaer
Davis Cup, Group I, 1R, NOR-CHN 4-0 · Rubber 2
Sep 18
Yi Zhou
Shanghai Challenger · 2nd Round
Sep 10
Fajing Sun
Shanghai Challenger · 1st Round
Sep 8
James Kent Trotter
Zhangjiagang Challenger · 1st Round
Aug 31
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 53–68 matches
| Metric | Sun | Cui |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 53% | 53% |
| Sets won | 52% | 54% |
| Games won | 52% | 53% |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Sun | Cui |
|---|---|---|
| ATP Challenger Tour | 0 | 1 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Sun | Cui |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 0 | 1 |