Emilio Gomez and Kaichi Uchida will square off in the 2nd round of the Malaga Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Emilio Gomez who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Emilio Gomez is the pick to win this match.
Emilio Gomez -> 1.47
Kaichi Uchida -> 2.68
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Prediction and head to head Emilio Gomez vs. Kaichi Uchida
This will be the 2nd time that Emilio Gomez and Kaichi Uchida square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Gomez (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Gomez won 7-6(6) 3-6 6-4 in the qualifications in the Sarasota Challenger back in 2015.
Emilio Gomez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-11 | 0-2 | 6-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-28 | 8-16 | 2-6 | 5-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-26 | 38-15 | 1-3 | 8-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-33 | 25-15 | 9-11 | 3-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-15 | 2-5 | 4-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 151, Emilio reached the 2nd round after beating Yasutaka Uchiyama 7-66 5-7 6-4.
In the 1st round, Emilio defeated Uchiyama (7-66 5-7 6-4). During the match, Gomez scored 102 points vs Uchiyama’s 100. Gomez was pretty aggressive to blast 46 winners.
Talking about the service games, Gomez struck 5 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Emilio Gomez was quite effective on serve to win 75% (46/61) of his 1st serve and 61% (25/41) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Ecuadorian broke Uchiyama twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Gomez has a winning match record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (327-238). 16-8 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Gomez has an overall 158-95 record in the last years on hard.
The Ecuadorian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Salinas Challenger.
The Ecuadorian has an aggregate 20-15 win-loss record in 2022, 16-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Malaga Challenger
The Ecuadorian has never competed in this tournament before.
Kaichi Uchida
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-31 | 39-21 | 0-3 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2024 | 42-30 | 18-22 | 16-6 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-33 | 4-18 | 3-10 | 9-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-34 | 24-23 | 8-5 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-26 | 27-13 | 6-11 | 1-2 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 203 (career-high), Uchida reached the 2nd round after beating Dmitry Popko 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, Uchida had a good straight sets win against Popko (6-4 6-1). During the match Uchida scored 57 points vs Popko’s 36. Kaichi was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Uchida blasted 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Kaichi Uchida was extremely effective on serve to win 84% (21/25) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Uchida broke Popko 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
The Japanese’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Oeiras 3 Challenger.
Uchida has a composed 19-17 win-loss record in 2022, 8-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gomez | Uchida |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 35 | 17 |
| Pts | 102-100 | 57-36 |
| Total Points | 202 | 93 |
| Winners | 46 | 21 |
| %Winners | 45% | 37% |
Both Gomez and Uchida played 1 match. At the moment, Emilio Gomez conceded 1 set while Kaichi Uchida hasn’t conceded a set so far. Gomez has played 1 set more than Uchida (3 vs 2). Therefore, Gomez played 18 games more than Uchida. The Ecuadorian scored 46 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese made 21 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gomez | Uchida |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 2 |
| 1st in | 61/102 | 25/45 |
| %1st in | 60% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 46/61 | 21/25 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 25/41 | 12/20 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 60% |
Gomez managed to score 5 aces . Uchida recorded 2 aces . Gomez won 75% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Uchida won 84% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gomez | Uchida |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 50% | 44% |
| Conceded | 3 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 33% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Gomez broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Gomez conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Uchida broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Kaichi conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Gomez | |||
| R1 Uchiyama |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 5-7 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 35 | |
| pts | 102-100 | 102-100 | |
| Total points | 202 | 202 | |
| Winners | 46 | 46 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 61/102 | 61/102 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 46/61 | 46/61 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 25/41 | 25/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Uchida | |||
| R1 Popko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 57-36 | 57-36 | |
| Total points | 93 | 93 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 25/45 | 25/45 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 21/25 | 21/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/20 | 12/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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