Ryan Peniston and Naoki Nakagawa will face off in the 1st round of the Gwangju Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ryan Peniston who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ryan Peniston is the pick to win this match.
Ryan Peniston -> 1.181
Naoki Nakagawa -> 4.4
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Prediction and head to head Ryan Peniston vs. Naoki Nakagawa
This will be the 2nd time that Ryan Peniston and Naoki Nakagawa face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Peniston (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Peniston won 6-1 4-2 ret. in the 2nd round in M15 Cancun back in 2019.
Ryan Peniston
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4-12 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-29 | 20-12 | 1-8 | 7-4 | 3-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-26 | 4-8 | 5-4 | 13-9 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-23 | 25-9 | 12-4 | 9-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-12 | 13-9 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 141, the Brit will start his run in the Gwangju Challenger after he played his last match in Seoul where he lost 6-3 7-6(8) to Jarry in the 1st round on the 27th of September.
Peniston has an aggregate 28-21 win-loss record in 2022, 3-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Ryan’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Loughborough and the Ostrava Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Peniston has an overall 202-112 record. He has a positive 123-57 record on hard.
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
The Brit has never competed in this tournament before.
Naoki Nakagawa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-23 | 42-19 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-27 | 16-16 | 10-9 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-15 | 32-13 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-4 | 14-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 454 (career-high), the Japanese got to the 1st round after defeating Robert Galloway 7-64 6-3.
In the qualifications, Naoki had a good straight sets win against Galloway (7-64 6-3). During the match Nakagawa scored 79 points vs Galloway’s 64. Nakagawa was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Nakagawa bagged 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Naoki Nakagawa lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Nakagawa put 51% of his first serves in, winning 67% (24/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (22/35) on the 2nd serve. Naoki broke Galloway 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
The Japanese has a compiled 23-18 win-loss record in 2022, 11-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
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