Frances Tiafoe and Soon-Woo Kwon will clash against each other in the semifinal of the Rakuten Japan Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 2:00 pm on COLOSSEUM. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.35
Soon-Woo Kwon -> 3.32
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Prediction and head to head Frances Tiafoe vs. Soon-Woo Kwon
This will be the 2nd time that Frances Tiafoe and Soon-Woo Kwon play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Tiafoe (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Tiafoe won 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in Tokyo back in 2021.
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), the American got to the semifinal after defeating Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-3 6-4, Bernabe Zapata Miralles 6-1 7-67 and Miomir Kecmanovic 6-0 6-4.
In the quarter, Francis had a good straight sets win against Kecmanovic (6-0 6-4). During the match, Tiafoe scored 61 points vs Kecmanovic’s 42. Tiafoe was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Tiafoe fired 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Frances Tiafoe was exceptionally effective on serve to win 75% (24/32) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Francis broke Kecmanovic 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Tiafoe hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Tiafoe has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (296-207). 18-10 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Tiafoe has a compiled136-98 record in the last 9 years on hard.
Tiafoe’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Estoril.
Tiafoe has an aggregate 30-20 win-loss record in 2022, 18-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Soon-Woo Kwon
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-6 | 26-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 6-9 | 4-4 | 1-3 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 10-11 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-30 | 15-16 | 5-7 | 5-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-19 | 2-9 | 5-4 | 14-2 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 120, the Korean got to the semifinal after beating Alex De Minaur 6-3 6-2, Mackenzie Mcdonald 6-3 6-74 6-2 and Pedro Martinez Portero 6-3 6-0.
In the quarter, Kwon had a good straight sets win against Martinez Portero (6-3 6-0). During the match Kwon scored 63 points vs Martinez Portero’s 41. The Korean was very aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Kwon blasted 3 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Soon-Woo Kwon was quite effective on serve to win 79% (19/24) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Soon-Woo broke Martinez Portero 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Soon-Woo has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
The Korean has a composed 23-28 win-loss record in 2022, 13-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tiafoe | Kwon |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 55 | 62 |
| Pts | 196-154 | 221-164 |
| Total Points | 350 | 385 |
| Winners | 82 | 81 |
| %Winners | 42% | 37% |
Both Tiafoe and Kwon played 3 matches. At the moment, Soon-Woo Kwon lost 1 set while Frances Tiafoe hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Tiafoe has played 1 set(s) less than Kwon (6 vs 7). Therefore, Tiafoe played 7 games less than Kwon. Tiafoe scored 82 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Korean bagged 81 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tiafoe | Kwon |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 23 | 12 |
| Avg per match | 7.7 | 4 |
| 1st in | 109/184 | 99/169 |
| %1st in | 59% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 82/109 | 81/99 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 45/75 | 42/70 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 60% |
Tiafoe bagged 23 aces (7.7 per match). Kwon blasted 12 aces (4 per match). Tiafoe won 75% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Kwon won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tiafoe | Kwon |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 10 | 13 |
| Converted | 10/25 | 13/23 |
| % Converted | 40% | 57% |
| Conceded | 10 | 3 |
| Saved | 9 | 3 |
| % Saved | 90% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The American broke his opponents 10 times with a 40% conversion rate. Tiafoe surrendered his serve once and he saved 90% of the break points that he conceded. The Korean broke his opponents 13 times with a 57% conversion rate. Kwon was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Tiafoe | |||||
| R1 Uchiyama |
R2 Zapata Miralles |
1/4 Kecmanovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | 6-1 7-67 | 6-0 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 20 | 16 | 55 | |
| pts | 59-51 | 76-61 | 61-42 | 196-154 | |
| Total points | 110 | 137 | 103 | 350 | |
| Winners | 30 | 28 | 24 | 82 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 37% | 39% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 8 | 9 | 6 | 23 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 41/64 | 36/67 | 32/53 | 109/184 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 54% | 60% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 30/41 | 28/36 | 24/32 | 82/109 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 78% | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/23 | 17/31 | 12/21 | 45/75 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 55% | 57% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 4/9 | 4/10 | 10/25 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 44% | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 5/6 | 3/3 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 83% | 100% | 94% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Kwon | |||||
| R1 De Minaur |
R2 Mcdonald |
1/4 Martinez Portero |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | 6-3 6-74 6-2 | 6-3 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 30 | 15 | 62 | |
| pts | 61-43 | 97-80 | 63-41 | 221-164 | |
| Total points | 104 | 177 | 104 | 385 | |
| Winners | 19 | 43 | 19 | 81 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 44% | 30% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 25/42 | 50/86 | 24/41 | 99/169 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 58% | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 19/25 | 43/50 | 19/24 | 81/99 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 86% | 79% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/17 | 18/36 | 11/17 | 42/70 | |
| % 2nd pts | 76% | 50% | 65% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | 4/4 | 5/7 | 13/23 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 100% | 71% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 2/2 | 1/1 | 3 | |
| Saved % | – | 100% | 100% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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WLWWWLWWWW Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Taylor FritzFritz – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (w/o) – See score progression
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Borna CoricCoric (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Mackenzie McDonald/Marcelo MeloMcDonald/Marcelo Melo – Daniel Evans/John PeersEvans/John Peers (6-2 6-75 10-6) – See score progression
- Rafael Matos/David Vega HernandezMatos/David Vega Hernandez – Brandon Nakashima/Hunter ReeseNakashima/Hunter Reese (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Sander Gille/Joran VliegenGille/Joran Vliegen – Matthew Ebden/Max PurcellEbden/Max Purcell (6-3 5-7 10-8) – See score progression
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (w/o) – See score progression
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Borna CoricCoric (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (1-4) – H2H and prediction
