Hiroki Moriya and Otto Virtanen will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Biel Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Otto Virtanen who should win in 3 sets.
Otto Virtanen -> 1.444
Hiroki Moriya -> 2.69
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Prediction and head to head Hiroki Moriya vs. Otto Virtanen
This will be the 2nd time that Hiroki Moriya and Otto Virtanen fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Moriya (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Moriya won 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in the Manama Challenger back in 2021.
Hiroki Moriya
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-24 | 24-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-32 | 36-28 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-28 | 31-27 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-30 | 18-19 | 0-0 | 7-9 | 1-1 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 22-28 | 13-17 | 0-0 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 261, Moriya will start his run in the Biel Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Trimbach where he lost 6-2 ret. to Feldbausch in the 2nd round on the 17th of March.
Moriya has a composed 7-7 win-loss record in 2022, 6-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
The Japanese’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Quimper Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Hiroki has an overall 450-396 record. He has a negative 42-47 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Biel Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See his history.
Otto Virtanen
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-24 | 4-9 | 5-9 | 12-6 | 6-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-28 | 9-11 | 5-7 | 24-7 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-31 | 4-6 | 4-10 | 22-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-31 | 4-1 | 7-12 | 25-13 | 8-3 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 40-21 | 2-2 | 16-11 | 19-6 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
Ranked no. 412, Otto got to the 1st round after beating Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4 6-2 and David Poljak 7-62 6-3.
In the qualifications, Virtanen had a good straight sets win against Poljak (7-62 6-3). During the match Virtanen scored 73 points vs Poljak’s 57. Otto was very aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Virtanen recorded 10 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Otto Virtanen was extremely efficient on serve to win 84% (38/45) of his 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Otto broke Poljak once after converting 13% of his break points (1/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Otto started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 57% of the points he played.
Virtanen’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Vilnius.
Otto has an overall 8-6 win-loss record in 2022, 6-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Biel Challenger
Virtanen has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Biel Challenger
- Kacper ZukZuk – Go SoedaSoeda (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Filip HoranskyHoransky – Jerome KymKym (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Brayden SchnurSchnur (6-75 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Dennis NovakNovak (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras – Marius CopilCopil (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Aldin SetkicSetkic – Jurij RodionovRodionov (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zhe LiLi – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ruben BemelmansBemelmans – Marek GengelGengel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Borna GojoGojo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelle SelsSels – Daniel MasurMasur (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven – Georgii KravchenkoKravchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Ryan PenistonPeniston (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (0-1) – H2H and prediction