Alexei Popyrin and Naoki Nakagawa will square off in the 1st round of the Seoul Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on COURT 13. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexei Popyrin who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexei Popyrin is the pick to win this match.
Alexei Popyrin -> 1.11
Naoki Nakagawa -> 5.7
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Prediction and head to head Alexei Popyrin vs. Naoki Nakagawa
This will be the 2nd time that Alexei Popyrin and Naoki Nakagawa face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Popyrin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Popyrin won 2-6 7-6(5) 7-6(5) in the 1st round in USA F33 (Houston) back in 2017.
Alexei Popyrin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-11 | 7-4 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-29 | 18-14 | 15-6 | 1-4 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-31 | 7-16 | 7-4 | 3-5 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-26 | 13-11 | 8-6 | 10-5 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-16 | 3-4 | 5-5 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 94, Popyrin will start his run in the Seoul Challenger after he played his last match in Tokyo where he lost 7-5 6-4 to Martinez Portero in the 1st round on the 3rd of October.
The Australian has an overall 21-28 win-loss record in 2022, 7-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Popyrin’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Bordeaux Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Alexei has an overall 204-159 record. He has a positive 101-76 record on hard.
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Alexei has never competed in this tournament before.
Naoki Nakagawa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 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. 455, Nakagawa reached the 1st round after beating Keegan Smith 6-4 3-6 6-3 and Max Purcell 6-4 3-6 7-5.
In the qualifications, Naoki defeated Purcell (6-4 3-6 7-5).During the match Nakagawa scored less points (1) than Purcell. In fact, the world no. 94 won 91 points vs Purcell’s. That means that Nakagawa was more focused during the important points. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Nakagawa made 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Naoki Nakagawa lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Nakagawa put 53% of his first serves in, winning 67% (32/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (24/42) on the 2nd serve. Naoki broke Purcell 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Nakagawa started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 50% of the points he played.
The Japanese has an overall 25-19 win-loss record in 2022, 13-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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WLWWWLWLL Tennis Scores in Seoul Challenger
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-1 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Joris De LooreDe Loore (6-3 5-7 7-64) – See score progression
- Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Max PurcellPurcell (6-4 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Skander MansouriMansouri (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Li TuTu – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (7-64 7-62) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Cheong-Eui KimKim – Steve JohnsonJohnson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- John MillmanMillman – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (8-1) – H2H and prediction
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Yibing WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emilio GomezGomez – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hong ChungChung – Zsombor PirosPiros (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Ryan PenistonPeniston (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (0-2) – H2H and prediction
