Ulises Blanch and Shintaro Mochizuki will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Cary 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 15. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ulises Blanch who should win in 3 sets.
Ulises Blanch -> 1.55
Shintaro Mochizuki -> 2.39
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Prediction and head to head Ulises Blanch vs. Shintaro Mochizuki
There is no head to head record between Ulises Blanch and Shintaro Mochizuki since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Ulises Blanch
Ranked no. 256, Ulises will start his run in the Cary 2 Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Elias in the qualifications on the 26th of August.
Blanch has a composed 16-18 win-loss record in 2021, 11-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Blanch has an overall 146-127 record. He has a flat 52-52 record on hard.
Previously in the Cary 2 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2019. See his history.
Shintaro Mochizuki
Ranked no. 420 (career-high), Shintaro reached the 1st round after defeating Toby Alex Kodat 6-3 6-2 and Evan Song 6-3 7-61.
In the qualifications, Shintaro had a good straight sets win against Song (6-3 7-61). During the match Mochizuki scored 71 points vs Song’s 59. Mochizuki was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Mochizuki scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Shintaro Mochizuki was quite efficient on serve to win 77% (30/39) of his 1st serve and 52% (17/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Japanese broke Song 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Shintaro started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to conquer 55% of the points he played.
The Japanese’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Grodzisk Mazowiecki.
The Japanese has an aggregate 27-20 win-loss record in 2021, 8-7 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.Tennis Scores in Cary 2 Challenger
- Max PurcellPurcell – Alex BoltBolt (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dayne KellyKelly – Nicolas MejiaMejia (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis KudlaKudla – Donald YoungYoung (7-63 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Michael RedlickiRedlicki (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jc AragoneAragone – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (3-6 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Christian HarrisonHarrison (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander SarkissianSarkissian – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Dayne KellyKelly (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jc AragoneAragone – Max PurcellPurcell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Michael MmohMmoh – Noah RubinRubin (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Peter PolanskyPolansky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Garrett JohnsJohns (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Jason JungJung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Luca StaeheliStaeheli – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (0-0) – H2H and prediction