Elias Ymer and Ramkumar Ramanathan will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Rakuten Japan Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 1:30 pm on RAKUTEN MOBILE ARENA. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elias Ymer who should win in 2 sets.
Elias Ymer -> 1.41
Ramkumar Ramanathan -> 2.82
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Prediction and head to head Elias Ymer vs. Ramkumar Ramanathan
This will be the 2nd time that Elias Ymer and Ramkumar Ramanathan square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Ramanathan (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Ramanathan won 6-7(3) 6-3 7-5 in the 1st round in the Izmir Challenger back in 2015.
Elias Ymer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-32 | 7-15 | 6-9 | 8-7 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-41 | 10-13 | 24-17 | 7-10 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-32 | 12-11 | 20-15 | 5-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-29 | 9-9 | 20-11 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-12 | 1-4 | 8-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 124, Elias got to the qualifications after defeating Renta Tokuda 7-63 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Swede had a good straight sets win against Tokuda (7-63 6-3). During the match, Ymer scored 81 points vs Tokuda’s 70. Ymer was quite aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Regarding the service games, Ymer scored 11 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Elias Ymer lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Ymer put 68% of his first serves in, winning 74% (40/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (11/26) on the 2nd serve. The Swede broke Tokuda 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Ymer has winning match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (333-253). 12-10 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Ymer has an overall 63-69 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
The Swede’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Parma Challenger.
Elias has a composed 38-27 win-loss record in 2022, 12-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Ymer has never competed in this tournament before.
Ramkumar Ramanathan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-25 | 22-22 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-21 | 25-12 | 0-6 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 15-34 | 4-13 | 4-8 | 2-6 | 4-6 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 45-32 | 23-11 | 8-7 | 5-8 | 7-4 | 2-2 |
| 2020 | 8-18 | 3-8 | 0-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 5-2 |
Ranked no. 299, Ramkumar got to the qualifications after beating Ryota Tanuma 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications, Ramkumar had a good straight sets win against Tanuma (7-5 6-3). During the match Ramanathan scored 69 points vs Tanuma’s 55. Ramkumar was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Ramanathan fired 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Ramkumar Ramanathan was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 82% (27/33) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Ramkumar broke Tanuma 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Ramanathan has an overall 11-27 win-loss record in 2022, 3-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ymer | Ramanathan |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 21 |
| Pts | 81-70 | 69-55 |
| Total Points | 151 | 124 |
| Winners | 40 | 27 |
| %Winners | 49% | 39% |
Both Ymer and Ramanathan 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, Ymer and Ramanathan have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Ymer played 1 game more than Ramanathan. The Swede scored 40 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Ramkumar made 27 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ymer | Ramanathan |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 9 |
| 1st in | 54/80 | 33/59 |
| %1st in | 68% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 40/54 | 27/33 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 11/26 | 15/26 |
| %2nd pts | 42% | 58% |
Ymer struck 11 aces . Ramanathan bagged 9 aces . Ymer won 74% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Ramanathan won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ymer | Ramanathan |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 3/7 |
| % Converted | 57% | 43% |
| Conceded | 8 | 1 |
| Saved | 6 | 0 |
| % Saved | 75% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Ymer broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Swede conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Indian broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Ramanathan conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ymer | |||
| Q1 Tokuda | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 81-70 | 81-70 | |
| Total points | 151 | 151 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 54/80 | 54/80 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 40/54 | 40/54 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/26 | 11/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| 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 | |
| Ramanathan | |||
| Q1 Tanuma | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 69-55 | 69-55 | |
| Total points | 124 | 124 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 33/59 | 33/59 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 27/33 | 27/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 15/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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