Yuichi Sugita and Yasutaka Uchiyama will play each other in the qualifications of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 9th time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 12:00 pm on COURT 1. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yuichi Sugita who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yuichi Sugita is the pick to win this match.
Yuichi Sugita -> 1.44
Yasutaka Uchiyama -> 2.62
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Prediction and head to head Yuichi Sugita vs. Yasutaka Uchiyama
This will be the 9th time that Yuichi Sugita and Yasutaka Uchiyama square off. The head to head is 6-2 for Sugita (see full H2H stats), 4-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Uchiyama won 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in the Kobe Challenger back in 2016.
Yuichi Sugita
Ranked no. 83, Yuichi reached the 1st round after beating Petros Tsitsipas 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Yuichi had a good straight sets win against Tsitsipas (6-3 6-2). During the match Sugita scored 58 points vs Tsitsipas’s 35. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Sugita blasted 4 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Yuichi Sugita was extremely effective on serve to win 81% (25/31) of his 1st serve and 80% (8/10) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Tsitsipas 4 times.
Sugita has a favorable record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (853-632). 9-4 on hard in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Sugita has a 303-227 record in the last 10 years on hard.
Sugita’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Noumea Challenger.
The Japanese has a 9-4 win-loss record in 2020, 9-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Dubai
Yuichi didn’t play in Dubai in 2019.
Yasutaka Uchiyama
Ranked no. 96, Uchiyama got to the 1st round after defeating Zhizhen Zhang 5-7 7-62 2-2 ret..
In the qualifications against Zhang, Yasutaka had an good comeback after recovering from a 2-sets down deficit before winning (5-7 7-62 2-2 ret.).-87) than Zhang. In fact, the world no. 83 won 87 points vs Zhang’s. That means that Uchiyama was more focused during the important points. Yasutaka was extremely aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Talking about serving, Uchiyama blasted 6 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Yasutaka Uchiyama lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Uchiyama put 56% of his first serves in, winning 80% (41/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (18/40) on the 2nd serve. Uchiyama broke Zhang once after converting 33% of his break points (1/3).
Uchiyama has a winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (909-674). 1-2 on hard in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Uchiyama has a 191-176 win-loss record in the last 10 years on hard.
The Japanese has a 1-3 win-loss record in 2020, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Dubai
The Japanese didn’t play in Dubai in 2019.
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