Li Tu and Naoki Nakagawa will square off in the 2^nd round of the Seoul Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Li Tu who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Li Tu is the pick to win this match.
Li Tu -> 1.49
Naoki Nakagawa -> 2.54

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Prediction and head to head Li Tu vs. Naoki Nakagawa

There is no head to head record between Li Tu and Naoki Nakagawa since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Li Tu

Ranked no. 292, the Australian got to the 2^nd round after beating Sehyuk Cho 6-1 6-0, Mukund Sasikumar 7-5 7-5 and Kaichi Uchida 6-4 6-0.

In the 1^st round, Tu had a good straight sets win against Uchida (6-4 6-0). During the match, Tu scored 64 points vs Uchida’s 45. Li was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Regarding the service games, Tu struck 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Li Tu lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Tu put 61% of his first serves in, winning 69% (25/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the 2nd serve. Tu was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Uchida 5 times.

Tu has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 3 years having won 75% of his matches (86-28). 29-12 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Tu has an overall57-16 record in the last 3 years on hard.

The Australian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Bendigo,M25 Cairo,M15 Monastir,M25 Monastir and M15 Waco.

Tu has a composed 45-20 win-loss record in 2022, 29-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Seoul Challenger

The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.

Naoki Nakagawa

Ranked no. 455, Nakagawa got to the 2^nd round after defeating Keegan Smith 6-4 3-6 6-3, Max Purcell 6-4 3-6 7-5 and Alexei Popyrin 3-6 7-5 7-6⁶.

In the 1^st round against Popyrin, Nakagawa recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-5 7-6⁶).During the match Nakagawa scored less points (4) than Popyrin. In fact, the world no. 292 won 104 points vs Popyrin’s. That means that Nakagawa was more focused during the important points. The Japanese was quite aggressive to blast 47 winners.

Talking about serving, Nakagawa scored 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Naoki Nakagawa lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Nakagawa put 59% of his first serves in, winning 77% (47/61) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (20/42) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Popyrin twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

The Japanese has a composed 26-19 win-loss record in 2022, 14-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Tu	Nakagawa
Match played	3	3
Tot Set	6	9
Tot Games	53	93
Pts	196-144	283-287
Total Points	340	570
Winners	81	115
%Winners	41%	41%

Both Tu and Nakagawa played 3 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Naoki Nakagawa surrendered 3 sets while Li Tu hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Tu has played 3 set(s) less than Nakagawa (6 vs 9). Therefore, Tu played 40 games less than Nakagawa. Li scored 81 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese scored 115 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Tu	Nakagawa
Aces	13	23
Avg per match	4.3	7.7
1st in	114/177	163/287
%1st in	64%	57%
1st pts	81/114	115/163
%1st pts	71%	71%
2nd pts	34/63	66/124
%2nd pts	54%	53%

Tu managed to score 13 aces (4.3 per match). Nakagawa blasted 23 aces (7.7 per match). Tu won 71% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Nakagawa won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Tu	Nakagawa
Won	14	9
Converted	14/22	9/18
% Converted	64%	50%
Conceded	9	18
Saved	6	11
% Saved	67%	61%
Times Broken	3	7

Li broke his opponents 14 times with a 64% conversion rate. The Australian dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Nakagawa broke his opponents 9 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 61% of the break points that he conceded.

Tu
	Q1 Cho	Q3 Kumar Mukund	R1 Uchida	Total
Score	6-1 6-0	7-5 7-5	6-4 6-0
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	13	24	16	53
pts	55-34	77-65	64-45	196-144
Total points	89	142	109	340
Winners	24	32	25	81
%Winners	44%	42%	39%	41%
SERVE
Aces	4	6	3	13
Double Faults	1	3	3	7
1st in	32/49	46/69	36/59	114/177
% 1st in	65%	67%	61%	64%
1st pts	24/32	32/46	25/36	81/114
% 1st pts	75%	70%	69%	71%
2nd pts	8/17	14/23	12/23	34/63
% 2nd pts	47%	61%	52%	54%
Breaks
Won	5	4	5	14
Converted	5/10	4/7	5/5	14/22
Converted %	50%	57%	100%	64%
Conceded	2	3	4	9
Saved	2/2	1/3	3/4	6
Saved %	100%	33%	75%	69%
Times Broken	0	2	1	3

Nakagawa
	Q1 Smith	Q3 Purcell	R1 Popyrin	Total
Score	6-4 3-6 6-3	6-4 3-6 7-5	3-6 7-5 7-66
Tot Set	3	3	3	9
Tot Games	28	31	34	93
pts	88-87	91-92	104-108	283-287
Total points	175	183	212	570
Winners	36	32	47	115
%Winners	41%	35%	45%	41%
SERVE
Aces	10	8	5	23
Double Faults	4	1	1	6
1st in	54/94	48/90	61/103	163/287
% 1st in	57%	53%	59%	57%
1st pts	36/54	32/48	47/61	115/163
% 1st pts	67%	67%	77%	71%
2nd pts	22/40	24/42	20/42	66/124
% 2nd pts	55%	57%	48%	53%
Breaks
Won	3	4	2	9
Converted	3/5	4/10	2/3	9/18
Converted %	60%	40%	67%	50%
Conceded	7	7	4	18
Saved	5/7	4/7	2/4	11
Saved %	71%	57%	50%	59%
Times Broken	2	3	2	7

Tennis Scores in Seoul Challenger

• Li TuTu – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-5 6-7⁶ 6-4) – See score progression
• Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Emilio GomezGomez (5-7 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Marc PolmansPolmans (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Ryan PenistonPeniston (5-7 6-3 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Steve JohnsonJohnson – Cheong-Eui KimKim (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Maximilian MartererMarterer – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Hong ChungChung – Zsombor PirosPiros (4-6 6-3 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (3-6 7-5 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• John MillmanMillman – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Jangjun KimKim (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Yibing WuWu – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-0 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Christopher EubanksEubanks (6-7⁶ 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-6⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-2 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• John MillmanMillman – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Hong ChungChung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Li TuTu – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Maximilian MartererMarterer (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Rinky HijikataHijikata (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yibing WuWu – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Steve JohnsonJohnson (0-0) – H2H and prediction