Frances Tiafoe and Yasutaka Uchiyama will play each other in the 1st round of the Rakuten Japan Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 6:00 pm on COLOSSEUM. 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 Frances Tiafoe who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Frances Tiafoe is the pick to win this match.
Frances Tiafoe -> 1.103
Yasutaka Uchiyama -> 6.8
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Prediction and head to head Frances Tiafoe vs. Yasutaka Uchiyama
This will be the 3rd time that Frances Tiafoe and Yasutaka Uchiyama fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Tiafoe and Uchiyama (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Tiafoe won 6-3 7-6(3) in the semifinal in the Granby Challenger back in 2016.
Frances Tiafoe
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-23 | 13-13 | 11-7 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-27 | 21-13 | 5-6 | 4-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-21 | 21-10 | 8-4 | 4-5 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-25 | 19-11 | 8-6 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-27 | 19-13 | 4-7 | 10-4 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 19 (career-high), he will start his run in Tokyo after he played his last match in the Laver Cup where he defeated 1-6 7-6(11) 10-8 to Tsitsipas in the round robin on the 25th of September.
The American has a compiled 27-20 win-loss record in 2022, 15-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tiafoe’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Estoril.
Talking about his overall career, Francis has an overall 293-207 record. He has a positive 133-98 record on hard.
Previously in Tokyo
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018. See his history.
Yasutaka Uchiyama
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-29 | 19-22 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-25 | 26-18 | 1-1 | 6-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-24 | 27-22 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-21 | 16-13 | 0-0 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-26 | 9-13 | 0-3 | 1-6 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 311, the Japanese will start his run in Tokyo after he played his last match in the Cary Challenger where he lost 6-3 3-6 6-3 to Mmoh in the quarter on the 16th of September.
Yasutaka has a composed 23-18 win-loss record in 2022, 16-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Japanese’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Monastir.
In terms of his career, Yasutaka has an overall 391-309 record. He has a positive 278-195 record on hard.
Previously in Tokyo
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2019. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Max PurcellPurcell (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Elias YmerYmer (5-7 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (5-7 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (0-6 6-2 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Daniel EvansEvans (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Kaichi UchidaUchida (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Borna CoricCoric (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nick KyrgiosKyrgios – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Steve JohnsonJohnson (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
