Dominic Stephan Stricker and Yuichi Sugita will face off in the 1st round of the Biel Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:00 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 Dominic Stephan Stricker who should win in 2 sets.
Dominic Stephan Stricker -> 1.25
Yuichi Sugita -> 3.78
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Prediction and head to head Dominic Stephan Stricker vs. Yuichi Sugita
This will be the 2nd time that Dominic Stephan Stricker and Yuichi Sugita clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Stephan Stricker (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Stephan Stricker won 5-7 6-4 6-4 in the semifinal in the Lugano Challenger back in 2021.
Dominic Stephan Stricker
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 157, the Swiss will start his run in the Biel Challenger after he played his last match in 1 where he lost 6-3 6-3 to Hassan in the Rubber 1 on the 4th of March.
Dominic has a compiled 10-5 win-loss record in 2022, 8-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
The Swiss’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Columbus Challenger and the Cleveland Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Dominic has an overall 43-30 record. He has a positive 23-11 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Biel Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See his history.
Yuichi Sugita
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 2-13 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 1-3 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 7-14 | 3-5 | 0-3 | 3-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-15 | 9-8 | 1-3 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 45-28 | 27-16 | 0-0 | 10-6 | 7-5 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 229, the Japanese will start his run in the Biel Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-3 6-2 6-2
to Ruud in the 1st round on the 30th of August.This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
In terms of his career, The Japanese has an overall 513-363 record. He has a positive 51-40 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Biel Challenger
Yuichi has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Biel Challenger
- Marius CopilCopil – Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (7-68 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marek GengelGengel – Ruben BemelmansBemelmans (7-64 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pavel KotovKotov – Ryan PenistonPeniston (7-67 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Borna GojoGojo – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (6-70 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven – Georgii KravchenkoKravchenko (7-64 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Zhe LiLi (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kilian FeldbauschFeldbausch – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Dennis NovakNovak (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kacper ZukZuk – Go SoedaSoeda (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Brayden SchnurSchnur (6-75 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Filip HoranskyHoransky – Jerome KymKym (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Aldin SetkicSetkic – Jurij RodionovRodionov (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marius CopilCopil – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip HoranskyHoransky – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelle SelsSels – Daniel MasurMasur (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Marek GengelGengel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Kacper ZukZuk (1-0) – H2H and prediction