Taro Daniel and Tatsuma Ito will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Las Vegas Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tatsuma Ito who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tatsuma Ito is the pick to win this match.
Tatsuma Ito -> 0
Taro Daniel -> 0
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Prediction and head to head Taro Daniel vs. Tatsuma Ito
This will be the 5th time that Taro Daniel and Tatsuma Ito square off. The head to head is 3-1 for Daniel (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on hard.
The last time that they played, Daniel won 2-6 7-5 7-6(5) in the 1st round in Shenzhen back in 2018.
Taro Daniel
Ranked no. 120, Taro reached the 2nd round after defeating Jordan Sauer 6-0 6-2.
In the 1st round, Daniel had a good straight sets win against Sauer (6-0 6-2). During the match, Daniel scored 54 points vs Sauer’s 31. Taro was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Daniel recorded 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Taro Daniel was extremely efficient on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Taro broke Sauer 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Daniel has a positive record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (403-281). 4-6 on hard in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Daniel has an aggregate 115-92 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Taro’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Sultan 2 Challenger, Belgrade,the Oeiras 3 Challenger and the Lyon Challenger.
The Japanese has a compiled 29-23 win-loss record in 2021, 4-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Las Vegas Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2019. See his history.
Tatsuma Ito
Ranked no. 271, Ito got to the 2nd round after beating Donald Young 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Ito had a good straight sets win against Young (6-4 6-4). During the match Ito scored 58 points vs Young’s 51. Ito was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Ito blasted 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Tatsuma Ito was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (24/31) of his 1st serve and 59% (16/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Tatsuma broke Young 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Tatsuma has an aggregate 8-18 win-loss record in 2021, 4-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Daniel | Ito |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 20 |
| Pts | 54-31 | 58-51 |
| Total Points | 85 | 109 |
| Winners | 21 | 24 |
| %Winners | 39% | 41% |
Both Daniel and Ito played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Daniel and Ito have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Daniel played 6 games less than Ito. Daniel scored 21 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Ito made 24 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Daniel | Ito |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 2 |
| 1st in | 26/40 | 31/58 |
| %1st in | 65% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 24/31 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 8/14 | 16/27 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 59% |
Daniel blasted 4 aces . Ito recorded 2 aces . Daniel won 81% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Ito won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Daniel | Ito |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 3/7 |
| % Converted | 63% | 43% |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | NAN% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Daniel broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Japanese extremely effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Ito broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Daniel | |||
| R1 Sauer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 54-31 | 54-31 | |
| Total points | 85 | 85 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 26/40 | 26/40 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 21/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/14 | 8/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Ito | |||
| R1 Young |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 58-51 | 58-51 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 31/58 | 31/58 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 24/31 | 24/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/27 | 16/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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