Rio Noguchi and Aidan Mchugh will play each other in the 2nd round of the Jinan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:30 am on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aidan Mchugh who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aidan Mchugh is the pick to win this match.
Aidan Mchugh -> 1.71
Rio Noguchi -> 2.06
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Prediction and head to head Rio Noguchi vs. Aidan Mchugh
There is no head to head record between Rio Noguchi and Aidan Mchugh since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Rio Noguchi
28 - 21win/loss
301
201
LLLLLWWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 41-31 | 36-22 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 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. 333, Noguchi got to the 2nd round after beating Bogdan Bobrov 7-5 6-4.
In the 1st round, Noguchi had a good straight sets win against Bobrov (7-5 6-4). During the match, Noguchi scored 75 points vs Bobrov’s 60. Noguchi was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Regarding the service games, Noguchi scored just 1 ace and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Rio Noguchi was quite effective on serve to win 80% (36/45) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Bobrov 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Noguchi has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (315-218). 22-14 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Noguchi has an overall210-132 record in the last 9 years on hard.
Rio’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Swan Hill.
The Japanese has an overall 27-21 win-loss record in 2024, 22-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Jinan Challenger
Rio has never competed in this tournament before.
Aidan Mchugh
25 - 23win/loss
472
298
LWLLLWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-31 | 20-15 | 1-1 | 8-11 | 1-3 | 2-1 |
| 2023 | 52-30 | 39-20 | 0-0 | 13-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-26 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 23-12 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 52-28 | 34-15 | 7-5 | 10-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-13 | 4-8 | 3-2 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 397, Aidan got to the 2nd round after beating Kris Van Wyk 7-6(3) 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Van Wyk (7-63 6-4). During the match Mchugh scored 84 points vs Van Wyk’s 72. The Brit was very aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Mchugh managed to score 2 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Aidan Mchugh was extremely effective on serve to win 80% (36/45) of his 1st serve and 69% (18/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Brit broke Van Wyk once after converting 11% of his break points (1/9).
The Brit’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 East Lansing.
The Brit has a compiled 25-22 win-loss record in 2024, 14-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Noguchi | Mchugh |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 23 |
| Pts | 75-60 | 84-72 |
| Total Points | 135 | 156 |
| Winners | 36 | 36 |
| %Winners | 48% | 43% |
Both Noguchi and Mchugh played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Noguchi and Mchugh have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Noguchi played 1 game less than Mchugh. The Japanese scored 36 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, The Brit recorded 36 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Noguchi | Mchugh |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2 |
| 1st in | 45/63 | 45/71 |
| %1st in | 71% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 36/45 | 36/45 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 18/26 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 69% |
Noguchi scored 1 ace . Mchugh also blasted 2 aces . Noguchi won 80% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Mchugh won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Noguchi | Mchugh |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 1 |
| Converted | 3/8 | 1/9 |
| % Converted | 38% | 11% |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 |
| Saved | 4 | 5 |
| % Saved | 80% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Japanese broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Rio lost his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Aidan broke his opponent once with a 11% conversion rate. Mchugh was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.
| Noguchi | |||
| R1 Bobrov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 75-60 | 75-60 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 45/63 | 45/63 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 36/45 | 36/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Mchugh | |||
| R1 Van |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 84-72 | 84-72 | |
| Total points | 156 | 156 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 45/71 | 45/71 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 36/45 | 36/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/26 | 18/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/9 | 1/9 | |
| Converted % | 11% | 11% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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