Rio Noguchi and Luke Saville will play each other in the 2nd round of the Playford Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rio Noguchi who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rio Noguchi is the pick to win this match.
Rio Noguchi -> 1.68
Luke Saville -> 2.13
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Prediction and head to head Rio Noguchi vs. Luke Saville
There is no head to head record between Rio Noguchi and Luke Saville since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Rio Noguchi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 41-27 | 36-20 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-31 | 12-18 | 2-7 | 2-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-22 | 41-10 | 9-9 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-26 | 18-18 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-12 | 5-6 | 0-3 | 3-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 246, the Japanese got to the 2nd round after defeating Calum Puttergill 6-0 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Puttergill (6-0 6-3). During the match, Noguchi scored 67 points vs Puttergill’s 41. Noguchi was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Noguchi scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Rio Noguchi was quite efficient on serve to win 74% (31/42) of his 1st serve and 67% (4/6) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Puttergill 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Noguchi has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 62% of his matches (265-161). 37-6 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Noguchi has an aggregate172-96 record in the last 7 years on hard.
The Japanese’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Harmon,Nova,M25 Sapporo and M25 Kashiwa.
Rio has a composed 50-17 win-loss record in 2022, 37-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Noguchi has never competed in this tournament before.
Luke Saville
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-21 | 11-15 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-26 | 28-18 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 14-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-11 | 18-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 714, the Australian reached the 2nd round after beating Nicholas Jovanovski 6-3 4-6 6-3, Chanchin Sookton-Eng 6-4 6-0 and Kyle Seelig 2-6 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round against Seelig, Saville recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-4 6-2). During the match Saville scored 86 points vs Seelig’s 82. Luke was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Saville struck 6 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Luke Saville lost the serve 4 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Saville put 59% of his first serves in, winning 67% (34/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (14/35) on the 2nd serve. Luke broke Seelig 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
The Australian has a composed 12-7 win-loss record in 2022, 12-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Noguchi | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 70 |
| Pts | 67-41 | 249-205 |
| Total Points | 108 | 454 |
| Winners | 31 | 91 |
| %Winners | 46% | 37% |
Noguchi played 1 match while Saville competed in 3 matches. Saville started his run from the qualifications while Noguchi had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Luke Saville conceded 2 sets while Rio Noguchi hasn’t conceded a set so far. Noguchi has played 6 set(s) less than Saville (2 vs 8). Therefore, Noguchi played 55 games less than Saville. Rio scored 31 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian fired 91 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Noguchi | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 16 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 5.3 |
| 1st in | 42/48 | 129/213 |
| %1st in | 88% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 31/42 | 91/129 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 4/6 | 46/84 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 55% |
Noguchi fired 1 ace . Saville also scored 16 aces (5.3 per match). Noguchi won 74% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Saville won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Noguchi | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 14 |
| Converted | 4/12 | 14/25 |
| % Converted | 33% | 56% |
| Conceded | 4 | 20 |
| Saved | 4 | 13 |
| % Saved | 100% | 65% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 7 |
Rio broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Japanese pretty solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 4 break points. The Australian broke his opponents 14 times with a 56% conversion rate. Luke conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 65% of the break points that he conceded.
| Noguchi | |||
| R1 Puttergill |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 67-41 | 67-41 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 42/48 | 42/48 | |
| % 1st in | 88% | 88% | |
| 1st pts | 31/42 | 31/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | 4/12 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Saville | |||||
| Q1 Jovanovski |
Q3 Sookton-Eng |
R1 Seelig |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 4-6 6-3 | 6-4 6-0 | 2-6 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 16 | 26 | 70 | |
| pts | 97-79 | 66-44 | 86-82 | 249-205 | |
| Total points | 176 | 110 | 168 | 454 | |
| Winners | 35 | 22 | 34 | 91 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 33% | 40% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 8 | 2 | 6 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 1 | 8 | 12 | |
| 1st in | 48/79 | 30/48 | 51/86 | 129/213 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 63% | 59% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 35/48 | 22/30 | 34/51 | 91/129 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | 67% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/31 | 13/18 | 14/35 | 46/84 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 72% | 40% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 4/6 | 5/9 | 14/25 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 67% | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 1 | 13 | 20 | |
| Saved | 3/6 | 1/1 | 9/13 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 100% | 69% | 219% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Dayne KellyKelly – Blake MottMott (6-3 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
- Jose StathamStatham – Li TuTu (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Ajeet RaiRai – Adam WaltonWalton (2-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Calum PuttergillPuttergill (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Blake EllisEllis – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-2 7-62) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Jeremy JinJin (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Philip SekulicSekulic (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Luke SavilleSaville – Kyle SeeligSeelig (2-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Marek GengelGengel – Alex BoltBolt (3-6 6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Omar JasikaJasika – Mark WhitehouseWhitehouse (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Jeremy BealeBeale (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Colin SinclairSinclair – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-4 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Dane SweenySweeny – Edward WinterWinter (3-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jose StathamStatham – Dayne KellyKelly (4-1) – H2H and prediction
- Luke SavilleSaville – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Colin SinclairSinclair (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blake EllisEllis – Omar JasikaJasika (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marek GengelGengel – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Ajeet RaiRai (1-0) – H2H and prediction
