Alex Michelsen and Hayato Matsuoka will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Newport Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:30 pm on CENTER COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Michelsen who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alex Michelsen is the pick to win this match.
Alex Michelsen -> 1.041
Hayato Matsuoka -> 7.9
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Prediction and head to head Alex Michelsen vs. Hayato Matsuoka
There is no head to head record between Alex Michelsen and Hayato Matsuoka since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Alex Michelsen
19 - 15win/loss
35
30
LLWWWWLWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 35-21 | 25-11 | 6-7 | 1-1 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 29-27 | 14-13 | 6-5 | 4-5 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 45-34 | 26-14 | 4-9 | 8-5 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 61-27 | 30-13 | 4-3 | 19-7 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-10 | 14-8 | 0-1 | 9-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 46, Alex will start his run in the Newport Challenger after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 3-6 4-6 6-2 6-3 6-2 to Fearnley in the 1st round on the 30th of June.
Michelsen has an overall 18-15 win-loss record in 2026, 0-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Alex has an overall 176-113 record. He has a positive 20-15 record on grass.
Previously in the Newport Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Hayato Matsuoka
21 - 17win/loss
247
243
LWLLLWWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 32-25 | 31-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 38-30 | 31-23 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-26 | 26-15 | 13-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 15-13 | 10-9 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 346, Matsuoka reached the 1st round after beating Matisse Farzam 6-4 6-3 and Patrick Maloney 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Hayato had a good straight sets win against Farzam (6-4 6-3). During the match Matsuoka scored 63 points vs Farzam’s 51. Matsuoka was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Matsuoka recorded 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Hayato Matsuoka was very efficient on serve to win 79% (27/34) of his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Matsuoka broke Farzam twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).
ATP Newport Challenger - Hayato Matsuoka's projected path
Matsuoka has a composed 21-16 win-loss record in 2026, 1-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Newport Challenger
- Patrick MaloneyMaloney – Hayato MatsuokaMatsuoka (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (7-66 7-63) – See score progression
- Tyler ZinkZink – Ozan BarisBaris (7-62 6-3) – See score progression
- Daniel MilavskyMilavsky – Quinn VandecasteeleVandecasteele (1-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Andre IlaganIlagan – Alex RybakovRybakov (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Garrett JohnsJohns (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Daniel MilavskyMilavsky – Quinn VandecasteeleVandecasteele (1-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Garrett JohnsJohns (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Patrick MaloneyMaloney – Hayato MatsuokaMatsuoka (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
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- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Patrick MaloneyMaloney (1-1) – H2H and prediction
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- Daniil GlinkaGlinka – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andre IlaganIlagan – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jacob FearnleyFearnley – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
