Kaichi Uchida and Kenny de Schepper will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Porto Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 5:30 pm on COURT MCDONALDS. 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 Kaichi Uchida who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kaichi Uchida is the pick to win this match.
Kaichi Uchida -> 1.71
Kenny de Schepper -> 2.14
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Prediction and head to head Kaichi Uchida vs. Kenny de Schepper
This will be the 2nd time that Kaichi Uchida and Kenny de Schepper clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Uchida (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Uchida won 6-2 4-6 6-2 in the semifinal in M25 Vale do Lobo back in 2021.
Kaichi Uchida
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 35-24 | 14-18 | 16-6 | 5-0 | 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 |
2020 | 14-11 | 10-5 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 203 (career-high), the Japanese reached the 2nd round after defeating Illya Marchenko 7-63 7-63.
In the 1st round, Kaichi had a good straight sets win against Marchenko (7-63 7-63). During the match, Uchida scored 88 points vs Marchenko’s 77. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Uchida struck 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Kaichi Uchida was pretty effective on serve to win 74% (32/43) of his 1st serve and 51% (20/39) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 4 times. Kaichi broke Marchenko 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Uchida has a favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 52% of his matches (318-290). 9-8 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Uchida has a compiled 178-167 match record in the last years on hard.
Kaichi’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Oeiras 3 Challenger.
The Japanese has a compiled 20-18 win-loss record in 2022, 9-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Porto Challenger
Kaichi has never competed in this tournament before.
Kenny de Schepper
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 24-25 | 7-5 | 4-8 | 13-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 27-29 | 7-4 | 8-14 | 12-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 41-35 | 6-7 | 18-16 | 17-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 38-24 | 22-8 | 5-5 | 11-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 20-10 | 6-4 | 9-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 365, the French player reached the 2nd round after beating Adria Soriano Barrera 6-4 6-2 and Ulises Blanch 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Kenny had a good straight sets win against Blanch (6-4 6-4). During the match de Schepper scored 63 points vs Blanch’s 54. Kenny was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, de Schepper bagged 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Kenny de Schepper lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, de Schepper put 70% of his first serves in, winning 79% (33/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. Kenny broke Blanch 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Kenny’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Balma.
The French player has a compiled 27-18 win-loss record in 2022, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Uchida | de Schepper |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 2 |
Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
Tot Games | 26 | 38 |
Pts | 88-77 | 129-101 |
Total Points | 165 | 230 |
Winners | 32 | 60 |
%Winners | 36% | 47% |
Uchida played 1 match while de Schepper competed in 2 matches. de Schepper started his run from the qualifications while Uchida had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Uchida has played 2 set(s) less than de Schepper (2 vs 4). Therefore, Uchida played 12 games less than de Schepper. Uchida scored 32 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, De Schepper managed to score 60 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Uchida | de Schepper |
---|---|---|
Aces | 4 | 14 |
Avg per match | 4 | 7 |
1st in | 43/82 | 74/111 |
%1st in | 52% | 67% |
1st pts | 32/43 | 60/74 |
%1st pts | 74% | 81% |
2nd pts | 20/39 | 21/37 |
%2nd pts | 51% | 57% |
Uchida scored 4 aces . de Schepper bagged 14 aces (7 per match). Uchida won 74% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, de Schepper won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Uchida | de Schepper |
---|---|---|
Won | 4 | 6 |
Converted | 4/8 | 6/11 |
% Converted | 50% | 55% |
Conceded | 9 | 6 |
Saved | 5 | 5 |
% Saved | 56% | 83% |
Times Broken | 4 | 1 |
Uchida broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Japanese lost his serve 4 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded. De Schepper broke his opponents 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. De Schepper conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
Uchida | |||
R1 Marchenko |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-63 7-63 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
pts | 88-77 | 88-77 | |
Total points | 165 | 165 | |
Winners | 32 | 32 | |
%Winners | 36% | 36% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 4 | 4 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 43/82 | 43/82 | |
% 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
1st pts | 32/43 | 32/43 | |
% 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
2nd pts | 20/39 | 20/39 | |
% 2nd pts | 51% | 51% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
Saved | 5/9 | 5 | |
Saved % | 56% | 56% | |
Times Broken | 4 | 4 |
de Schepper | |||||
Q1 Soriano Barrera |
Q3 Bellucci |
R1 Blanch |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-4 6-2 | 7-5 7-5 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Tot Games | 18 | 24 | 20 | 62 | |
pts | 66-47 | – | 63-54 | 129-101 | |
Total points | 113 | 0 | 117 | 230 | |
Winners | 27 | 33 | 60 | ||
%Winners | 41% | 0% | 52% | 47% | |
SERVE | |||||
Aces | 7 | 0 | 7 | 14 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||
1st in | 32/51 | / | 42/60 | 74/111 | |
% 1st in | 63% | 0% | 70% | 67% | |
1st pts | 27/32 | / | 33/42 | 60/74 | |
% 1st pts | 84% | 0% | 79% | 81% | |
2nd pts | 13/19 | / | 8/18 | 21/37 | |
% 2nd pts | 68% | 0% | 44% | 57% | |
Breaks | |||||
Won | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||
Converted | 3/6 | / | 3/5 | 6/11 | |
Converted % | 50% | 0% | 60% | 55% | |
Conceded | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||
Saved | 1/1 | 0/ | 4/5 | 5 | |
Saved % | 100% | – | 80% | 180% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Porto Challenger
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov (7-65 7-5) – See score progression
- Daniel RodriguesRodrigues – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Joao DominguesDomingues (5-7 7-62 6-1) – See score progression
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Renzo OlivoOlivo (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Nuno BorgesBorges (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Omar JasikaJasika (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Aidan MchughMchugh – Mirza BasicBasic (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Pedro SousaSousa (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Kenny de Schepperde Schepper – Ulises BlanchBlanch (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Constant LestienneLestienne (7-5 2-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Gabriel DecampsDecamps (6-73 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Emilio NavaNava – Thomaz BellucciBellucci (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Antoine BellierBellier – Jason JungJung (6-3 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Pedro AraujoAraujo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (7-63 7-63) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Kenny de Schepperde Schepper – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (2-4) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Antoine BellierBellier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Daniel RodriguesRodrigues (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aidan MchughMchugh – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emilio NavaNava – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-0) – H2H and prediction