Frances Tiafoe and Bernabe Zapata Miralles will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Rakuten Japan Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on COLOSSEUM. 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 Frances Tiafoe who should win in 2 sets.
Frances Tiafoe -> 1.29
Bernabe Zapata Miralles -> 3.6
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Prediction and head to head Frances Tiafoe vs. Bernabe Zapata Miralles
There is no head to head record between Frances Tiafoe and Bernabe Zapata Miralles since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Frances Tiafoe
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | 19-15 | 7-9 | 6-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 19 (career-high), the American reached the 2nd round after beating Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Tiafoe had a good straight sets win against Uchiyama (6-3 6-4). During the match, Tiafoe scored 59 points vs Uchiyama’s 51. Francis was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Tiafoe struck 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Frances Tiafoe was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (30/41) of his 1st serve and 70% (16/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Francis broke Uchiyama twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Tiafoe has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (294-207). 16-10 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Tiafoe has a compiled134-98 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
The American’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in Estoril.
The American has an overall 28-20 win-loss record in 2022, 16-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Bernabe Zapata Miralles
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-30 | 1-4 | 16-22 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-29 | 1-9 | 20-13 | 1-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-30 | 2-6 | 35-18 | 4-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-28 | 6-5 | 23-10 | 8-10 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-14 | 0-2 | 16-6 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 80, Bernabe got to the 2nd round after defeating Taro Daniel 7-5 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Daniel (7-5 7-5). During the match Zapata Miralles scored 85 points vs Daniel’s 76. The Spaniard was extremely aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about serving, Zapata Miralles fired 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Bernabe Zapata Miralles lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Zapata Miralles put 63% of his first serves in, winning 70% (37/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (16/31) on the 2nd serve. Zapata Miralles broke Daniel 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Zapata Miralles’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Meerbusch Challenger and the Seville Challenger.
Bernabe has an overall 42-25 win-loss record in 2022, 2-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Zapata Miralles has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tiafoe | Zapata Miralles |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 24 |
| Pts | 59-51 | 85-76 |
| Total Points | 110 | 161 |
| Winners | 30 | 37 |
| %Winners | 51% | 44% |
Both Tiafoe and Zapata Miralles played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Tiafoe and Zapata Miralles have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Tiafoe played 5 games less than Zapata Miralles. Tiafoe scored 30 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, Bernabe made 37 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tiafoe | Zapata Miralles |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 5 |
| 1st in | 41/64 | 53/84 |
| %1st in | 64% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 30/41 | 37/53 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 16/23 | 16/31 |
| %2nd pts | 70% | 52% |
Tiafoe struck 8 aces . Zapata Miralles bagged 5 aces . Tiafoe won 73% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Zapata Miralles won 70% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tiafoe | Zapata Miralles |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/6 | 4/11 |
| % Converted | 33% | 36% |
| Conceded | 1 | 7 |
| Saved | 1 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Francis broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Tiafoe pretty solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. Bernabe broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Bernabe conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Tiafoe | |||
| R1 Uchiyama | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 59-51 | 59-51 | |
| Total points | 110 | 110 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 41/64 | 41/64 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 30/41 | 30/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/23 | 16/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Zapata Miralles | |||
| R1 Daniel | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 24 | 24 | |
| pts | 85-76 | 85-76 | |
| Total points | 161 | 161 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 53/84 | 53/84 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 37/53 | 37/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/31 | 16/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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