Yuichi Sugita and Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha will clash against each other in the 3rd round of the Bengalaru Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yuichi Sugita who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yuichi Sugita is the pick to win this match.
Yuichi Sugita -> 1.062
Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha -> 10.00
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Prediction and head to head Yuichi Sugita vs. Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha
There is no head to head record between Yuichi Sugita and Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Yuichi Sugita
Ranked no. 82, Sugita got to the 3rd round after beating Vaclav Safranek 6-4 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Yuichi had a good straight sets win against Safranek (6-4 6-3). During the match Sugita scored 69 points vs Safranek’s 47. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Sugita blasted 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yuichi Sugita was extremely effective on serve to win 88% (21/24) of his 1st serve and 88% (15/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sugita broke Safranek 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Sugita has a favorable record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (833-622). 7-3 on hard in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Sugita has a 301-226 win-loss record in the last 10 years on hard.
Sugita’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Noumea Challenger.
The Japanese has a 7-3 win-loss record in 2020, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Bengalaru Challenger
Sugita didn’t compete in the Bengalaru Challenger in 2019.
Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha
Ranked no. 678, Kaliyanda reached the 3rd round after defeating Adil Kalyanpur 6-4 6-75 7-64 and Lukas Rosol 6-4 2-6 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Niki defeated Rosol (6-4 2-6 6-3).-88) than Rosol. In fact, the world no. 82 won 88 points vs Rosol’s. That means that Kaliyanda was more focused during the important points. Kaliyanda was extremely aggressive to blast 45 winners.
Talking about serving, Kaliyanda blasted 8 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha lost the serve twice and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Kaliyanda put 60% of his first serves in, winning 76% (45/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (15/39) on the 2nd serve. Niki broke Rosol twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Niki has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
Kaliyanda has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 54% of his matches (26-22). 4-2 on hard in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Kaliyanda has a 6-8 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
Niki has a 4-2 win-loss record in 2020, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Bengalaru Challenger
Niki didn’t compete in the Bengalaru Challenger in 2019.
Live score
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H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sugita | Kaliyanda |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 63 |
| Pts | 69-47 | 228-218 |
| Total Points | 116 | 446 |
| Winners | 21 | 103 |
| %Winners | 30% | 45% |
Sugita played 1 match while Kaliyanda competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha dropped 2 sets while Yuichi Sugita hasn’t lost a set so far. Sugita has played 4 sets less than Kaliyanda (2 vs 6). Therefore, Sugita played 44 games less than Kaliyanda. Yuichi scored 21 winners (30% on total points). On the other side, The Indian blasted 103 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sugita | Kaliyanda |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 16 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 8 |
| 1st in | 24/41 | 139/216 |
| %1st in | 59% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 21/24 | 103/139 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 15/17 | 33/77 |
| %2nd pts | 88% | 43% |
Sugita blasted 9 aces . Kaliyanda blasted 16 aces (8 per match). Sugita won 88% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 88% of the points. On the other side, Kaliyanda won 74% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 43% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sugita | Kaliyanda |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 6 |
| Converted | 3/10 | 6/19 |
| % Converted | 30% | 32% |
| Conceded | 0 | 18 |
| Saved | 0 | 13 |
| % Saved | NAN% | 72% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 5 |
Sugita broke his opponent 3 times with 30% conversion rate. Yuichi was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Indian broke his opponents 6 times with 32% conversion rate. Niki conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 72% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sugita | |||
| R2 Safranek |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 69-47 | 69-47 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 24/41 | 24/41 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 21/24 | 21/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/17 | 15/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 88% | 88% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | -100 | |
| Kaliyanda | ||||
| R1 Kalyanpur |
R2 Rosol |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-75 7-64 | 6-4 2-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 36 | 27 | 63 | |
| pts | 140-125 | 88-93 | 228-218 | |
| Total points | 265 | 181 | 446 | |
| Winners | 58 | 45 | 103 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 51% | 45% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 80/118 | 59/98 | 139/216 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 60% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 58/80 | 45/59 | 103/139 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 76% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/38 | 15/39 | 33/77 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 38% | 43% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 2/9 | 6/19 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 22% | 32% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 11 | 18 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 9/11 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 82% | 139% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 2 | 150 | |
Head 2 Head
LLLLLLWLWL Tennis Scores in Bengalaru Challenger
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- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (6-2 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Mohamed SafwatSafwat – Matthew EbdenEbden (7-65 6-71 7-5) – See score progression
- Sidharth RawatRawat – Rishi ReddyReddy (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Vaclav SafranekSafranek (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Laurent LokoliLokoli (6-3 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Filippo BaldiBaldi (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Blaz RolaRola – Vladyslav OrlovOrlov (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Saketh-Sai MyneniMyneni – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Sumit NagalNagal – Malek JaziriJaziri (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
- Niki Kaliyanda PoonachaKaliyanda Poonacha – Lukas RosolRosol (6-4 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Abhinav Sanjeev ShanmugamSanjeev Shanmugam (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Julian OcleppoOcleppo – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Sidharth RawatRawat – Rishi ReddyReddy (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Khumoun SultanovSultanov (6-4 7-6(5)) – See score progression
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (6-2 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Mohamed SafwatSafwat – Matthew EbdenEbden (7-6(5) 6-7(1) 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Saketh-Sai MyneniMyneni (2-2) – See H2H details
- Mohamed SafwatSafwat – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-1) – See H2H details
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (1-0) – See H2H details
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Benjamin BonziBonzi (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (0-0) – See H2H details
- Sumit NagalNagal – Blaz RolaRola (0-0) – See H2H details
- Julian OcleppoOcleppo – Sidharth RawatRawat (0-0) – See H2H details
- Niki Kaliyanda PoonachaKaliyanda Poonacha – Yuichi SugitaSugita (0-0) – See H2H details
