Jurij Rodionov and Yuichi Sugita will face off in the 2nd round of the Lugano Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on CENTRALE. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jurij Rodionov who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jurij Rodionov is the pick to win this match.
Jurij Rodionov -> 1.34
Yuichi Sugita -> 3.26
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Prediction and head to head Jurij Rodionov vs. Yuichi Sugita
This will be the 3rd time that Jurij Rodionov and Yuichi Sugita face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Rodionov and Sugita (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Sugita won 7-5 6-3 in the 1st round in Newport back in 2021.
Highlights Yuichi Sugita vs Jurij Rodionov – Newport 12-July-2021
Jurij Rodionov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-11 | 1-4 | 4-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-33 | 3-6 | 15-13 | 21-11 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 45-31 | 5-5 | 16-11 | 21-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-28 | 2-4 | 2-7 | 13-13 | 3-3 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 25-16 | 5-1 | 7-6 | 12-8 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 201, Jurij reached the 2nd round after beating Dominic Stephan Stricker 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Austrian had a good straight sets win against Stephan Stricker (6-3 7-5). During the match, Rodionov scored 80 points vs Stephan Stricker’s 61. Rodionov was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Regarding the service games, Rodionov scored 15 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults. Jurij Rodionov was very efficient on serve to win 81% (35/43) of his 1st serve and 65% (15/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Jurij broke Stephan Stricker twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Rodionov has a winning match record in the last 7 years having won 58% of his matches (171-124). 13-4 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Rodionov has a composed60-36 match record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.
The Austrian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Biel Challenger.
Jurij has an overall 14-7 win-loss record in 2022, 13-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lugano Challenger
Rodionov has never competed in this tournament before.
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, Sugita reached the 2nd round after beating Yunseong Chung 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Chung (6-3 6-4). During the match Sugita scored 84 points vs Chung’s 71. Sugita was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Sugita scored 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Yuichi Sugita conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 5 break points. Furthermore, Sugita put 64% of his first serves in, winning 69% (33/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (17/27) on the 2nd serve. Yuichi broke Chung twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).
Sugita has a composed 1-1 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lugano Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Rodionov | Sugita |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 19 |
| Pts | 80-61 | 84-71 |
| Total Points | 141 | 155 |
| Winners | 35 | 33 |
| %Winners | 44% | 39% |
Both Rodionov and Sugita played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Rodionov and Sugita have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Rodionov played 2 games more than Sugita. Rodionov scored 35 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Sugita bagged 33 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Rodionov | Sugita |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 15 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 15 | 5 |
| 1st in | 43/66 | 48/75 |
| %1st in | 65% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 35/43 | 33/48 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 15/23 | 17/27 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 63% |
Rodionov scored 15 aces . Sugita made 5 aces . Rodionov won 81% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Sugita won 69% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Rodionov | Sugita |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 2 |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/9 |
| % Converted | 40% | 22% |
| Conceded | 3 | 5 |
| Saved | 3 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The Austrian broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Rodionov very solid his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 3 break points. Sugita broke his opponent twice with a 22% conversion rate. Yuichi was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.
| Rodionov | |||
| R1 Stephan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 80-61 | 80-61 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 15 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 43/66 | 43/66 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 35/43 | 35/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/23 | 15/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Sugita | |||
| R1 Chung |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 84-71 | 84-71 | |
| Total points | 155 | 155 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 48/75 | 48/75 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 33/48 | 33/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/27 | 17/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/9 | 2/9 | |
| Converted % | 22% | 22% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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