Yasutaka Uchiyama and Yen-Hsun Lu will face off in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 3. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yasutaka Uchiyama who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yasutaka Uchiyama is the pick to win this match.
Yasutaka Uchiyama -> 1.16
Yen-Hsun Lu -> 5.00
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Prediction and head to head Yasutaka Uchiyama vs. Yen-Hsun Lu
There is no head to head record between Yasutaka Uchiyama and Yen-Hsun Lu since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Yasutaka Uchiyama
Ranked no. 99, the Japanese got to the 1st round after defeating Zhizhen Zhang 5-7 7-62 2-2 ret. and Yuichi Sugita 6-4 7-67.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Sugita (6-4 7-67). During the match Uchiyama scored 80 points vs Sugita’s 67. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Uchiyama blasted 12 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Yasutaka Uchiyama was extremely effective on serve to win 82% (28/34) of his 1st serve and 59% (20/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Japanese broke Sugita 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Uchiyama has a winning record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (919-674). 2-2 on hard in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Uchiyama has a 192-176 record in the last 10 years on hard.
The Japanese has a 2-3 win-loss record in 2020, 2-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Dubai
The Japanese didn’t compete in Dubai in 2019.
Yen-Hsun Lu
Ranked no. 533, Lu will start his run in Dubai after he played his last match at the Australian Open where he lost 6-1 6-4 6-2 to Monfils in the 1st round the 21st of January.
Lu has a 0-1 win-loss record in 2020, 0-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, Lu has an overall 266-174 record. He has positive 215-126 record on hard.
Last year in Dubai
Lu didn’t compete in Dubai in 2019.
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Dubai
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- Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Mohamed SafwatSafwat (4-6 6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicNovak – Malek JaziriMalek (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Richard GasquetRichard – Lloyd HarrisLloyd (7-6(5) 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Yen-Hsun LuLu – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – See H2H details
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (3-0) – See H2H details
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (1-0) – See H2H details
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (11-2) – See H2H details
- Marin CilicCilic – Benoit PairePaire (5-1) – See H2H details
- Daniel EvansEvans – Fabio FogniniFognini (0-0) – See H2H details
- Joao SousaSousa – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (1-1) – See H2H details
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Dennis NovakNovak (0-0) – See H2H details
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-1) – See H2H details
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-2) – See H2H details
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (1-1) – See H2H details
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Alexander BublikBublik (0-0) – See H2H details
