Mukund Sasikumar and Shintaro Mochizuki will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Aguascalientes Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on CANCHA COMEX. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Shintaro Mochizuki who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Shintaro Mochizuki is the pick to win this match.
Shintaro Mochizuki -> 1.727
Mukund Sasikumar -> 2.06
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Prediction and head to head Mukund Sasikumar vs. Shintaro Mochizuki
There is no head to head record between Mukund Sasikumar and Shintaro Mochizuki since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Mukund Sasikumar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-27 | 36-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-31 | 21-25 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-35 | 33-21 | 6-7 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-32 | 25-24 | 2-3 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-9 | 4-4 | 0-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 391, Sasi reached the qualifications after beating Aziz Dougaz 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Indian had a good straight sets win against Dougaz (6-1 6-1). During the match, Kumar Mukund scored 51 points vs Dougaz’s 24. The Indian was quite aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kumar Mukund recorded 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Mukund Sasikumar was extremely effective on serve to win 90% (19/21) of his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kumar Mukund broke Dougaz 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Kumar Mukund has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 54% of his matches (266-227). 1-1 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Kumar Mukund has an aggregate50-54 win-loss record in the last 9 years on clay.
Kumar Mukund’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Forli 1 Challenger.
Kumar Mukund has an overall 12-9 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Aguascalientes Challenger
Kumar Mukund has never competed in this tournament before.
Shintaro Mochizuki
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-27 | 12-17 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-33 | 22-16 | 13-8 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-34 | 18-17 | 13-12 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-30 | 11-10 | 18-11 | 5-7 | 1-1 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 20-14 | 14-12 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 429, the Japanese reached the qualifications after beating Skander Mansouri 7-64 6-2.
In the qualifications, Shintaro had a good straight sets win against Mansouri (7-64 6-2). During the match Mochizuki scored 74 points vs Mansouri’s 64. Shintaro was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Mochizuki blasted 2 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Shintaro Mochizuki lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Mochizuki put 54% of his first serves in, winning 71% (30/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (17/36) on the 2nd serve. Mochizuki broke Mansouri 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Shintaro has a compiled 6-7 win-loss record in 2022, 2-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kumar Mukund | Mochizuki |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 21 |
| Pts | 51-24 | 74-64 |
| Total Points | 75 | 138 |
| Winners | 19 | 30 |
| %Winners | 37% | 41% |
Both Kumar Mukund and Mochizuki played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kumar Mukund and Mochizuki have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kumar Mukund played 7 games less than Mochizuki. Kumar Mukund scored 19 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Shintaro recorded 30 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kumar Mukund | Mochizuki |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 2 |
| 1st in | 21/35 | 42/78 |
| %1st in | 60% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 19/21 | 30/42 |
| %1st pts | 90% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 17/36 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 47% |
Kumar Mukund blasted 8 aces . Mochizuki fired 2 aces . Kumar Mukund won 90% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Mochizuki won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kumar Mukund | Mochizuki |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 71% | 57% |
| Conceded | 0 | 8 |
| Saved | 0 | 6 |
| % Saved | 0% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Sasi broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Indian had a solid display on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kumar Mukund | |||
| Q1 Dougaz |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 51-24 | 51-24 | |
| Total points | 75 | 75 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 21/35 | 21/35 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 19/21 | 19/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 9/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Mochizuki | |||
| Q1 Mansouri |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 74-64 | 74-64 | |
| Total points | 138 | 138 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 42/78 | 42/78 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 30/42 | 30/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/36 | 17/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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