Akira Santillan and Shintaro Mochizuki will square off in the 1^st round of the Aguascalientes Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 6:30 pm on CANCHA LA HUERTA. 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 Akira Santillan who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Akira Santillan is the pick to win this match.
Akira Santillan -> 1.69
Shintaro Mochizuki -> 2.12

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Prediction and head to head Akira Santillan vs. Shintaro Mochizuki

There is no head to head record between Akira Santillan and Shintaro Mochizuki since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Akira Santillan

Ranked no. 384, the Australian reached the 1^st round after beating Hady Habib 6-2 6-4 and Jc Aragone 3-6 7-5 6-2.

In the qualifications against Aragone, Akira recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-5 6-2). During the match, Santillan scored 99 points vs Aragone’s 95. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 40 winners.

Regarding the service games, Santillan fired 11 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Akira Santillan lost the serve 5 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Santillan put 56% of his first serves in, winning 69% (40/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (18/45) on the 2nd serve. Akira broke Aragone 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Santillan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has dropped 1 set in this tournament to conquer 54% of the points he played.

Santillan has a good record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (215-159). 3-2 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Santillan has an overall 43-44 record in the last years on clay.

Akira’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Canberra.

Santillan has a compiled 13-8 win-loss record in 2022, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Aguascalientes Challenger

Santillan has never competed in this tournament before.

Shintaro Mochizuki

Ranked no. 431, the Japanese reached the 1^st round after beating Skander Mansouri 7-6⁴ 6-2 and Mukund Sasikumar 7-6⁵ 6-3.

In the qualifications, Mochizuki had a good straight sets win against Kumar Mukund (7-6⁵ 6-3). During the match Mochizuki scored 71 points vs Kumar Mukund’s 63. Shintaro was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Mochizuki struck 12 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Shintaro Mochizuki lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Mochizuki put 53% of his first serves in, winning 80% (28/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (14/31) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Kumar Mukund 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 53% of the points he played.

The Japanese has an overall 7-7 win-loss record in 2022, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Santillan	Mochizuki
Match played	2	2
Tot Set	5	4
Tot Games	47	43
Pts	166-144	145-127
Total Points	310	272
Winners	68	58
%Winners	41%	40%

Both Santillan and Mochizuki played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Akira Santillan lost 1 set while Shintaro Mochizuki hasn’t dropped a set so far. Santillan has played 1 set more than Mochizuki (5 vs 4). Therefore, Santillan played 4 games more than Mochizuki. The Australian scored 68 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Mochizuki struck 58 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Santillan	Mochizuki
Aces	22	14
Avg per match	11	7
1st in	89/151	77/144
%1st in	59%	53%
1st pts	68/89	58/77
%1st pts	76%	75%
2nd pts	28/62	31/67
%2nd pts	45%	46%

Santillan struck 22 aces (11 per match). Mochizuki bagged 14 aces (7 per match). Santillan won 76% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Mochizuki won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Santillan	Mochizuki
Won	9	7
Converted	9/24	7/13
% Converted	38%	54%
Conceded	13	15
Saved	8	11
% Saved	62%	73%
Times Broken	5	4

Santillan broke his opponents 9 times with a 38% conversion rate. Akira surrendered his serve 5 times and he saved 62% of the break points that he conceded. Mochizuki broke his opponents 7 times with a 54% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded.

Santillan
	Q1 Habib	Q3 Aragone	Total
Score	6-2 6-4	3-6 7-5 6-2
Tot Set	2	3	5
Tot Games	18	29	47
pts	67-49	99-95	166-144
Total points	116	194	310
Winners	28	40	68
%Winners	42%	40%	41%
SERVE
Aces	11	11	22
Double Faults	1	8	9
1st in	31/48	58/103	89/151
% 1st in	65%	56%	59%
1st pts	28/31	40/58	68/89
% 1st pts	90%	69%	76%
2nd pts	10/17	18/45	28/62
% 2nd pts	59%	40%	45%
Breaks
Won	3	6	9
Converted	3/13	6/11	9/24
Converted %	23%	55%	38%
Conceded	1	12	13
Saved	1/1	7/12	8
Saved %	100%	58%	79%
Times Broken	0	5	5

Mochizuki
	Q1 Mansouri	Q3 Kumar Mukund	Total
Score	7-64 6-2	7-65 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	21	22	43
pts	74-64	71-63	145-127
Total points	138	134	272
Winners	30	28	58
%Winners	41%	39%	40%
SERVE
Aces	2	12	14
Double Faults	8	8	16
1st in	42/78	35/66	77/144
% 1st in	54%	53%	53%
1st pts	30/42	28/35	58/77
% 1st pts	71%	80%	75%
2nd pts	17/36	14/31	31/67
% 2nd pts	47%	45%	46%
Breaks
Won	4	3	7
Converted	4/7	3/6	7/13
Converted %	57%	50%	54%
Conceded	8	7	15
Saved	6/8	5/7	11
Saved %	75%	71%	73%
Times Broken	2	2	4

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• Arthur CazauxCazaux – Julian LenzLenz (6-2 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jay ClarkeClarke – Yuichi SugitaSugita (5-7 7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings

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