Kousuke Ogura and Juan Pablo Varillas will play each other in the 1st round of the Ambato Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Juan Pablo Varillas who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Juan Pablo Varillas is the pick to win this match.
Juan Pablo Varillas -> 1.015
Kousuke Ogura -> 21
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Prediction and head to head Kousuke Ogura vs. Juan Pablo Varillas
There is no head to head record between Kousuke Ogura and Juan Pablo Varillas since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Kousuke Ogura
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-16 | 13-11 | 2-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-30 | 7-16 | 8-11 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-32 | 12-13 | 13-18 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-13 | 18-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Ogura reached the 1st round after beating Daniel Espin Perez 6-1 6-4 and Gonzalo Bueno 7-66 6-2.
In the qualifications, Ogura had a good straight sets win against Bueno (7-66 6-2). During the match, Ogura scored 73 points vs Bueno’s 59. Kousuke was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Regarding the service games, Ogura recorded 5 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults. Overall, Kousuke Ogura was pretty efficient on serve to win 72% (34/47) of his 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Ogura broke Bueno 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ogura started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Ogura has a unfavourable win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 49% of his matches (40-41). 12-14 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Ogura has an aggregate12-15 match record in the last 5 years on clay.
The Japanese’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in M15 Cancun.
The Japanese has an aggregate 21-25 win-loss record in 2022, 12-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ambato Challenger
Kousuke has never competed in this tournament before.
Juan Pablo Varillas
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-18 | 0-4 | 15-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-29 | 4-7 | 23-17 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 53-27 | 2-3 | 51-23 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 51-23 | 0-2 | 51-20 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-14 | 1-2 | 7-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 123, the Peruvian will start his run in the Ambato Challenger after he played his last match in the Rio De Janeiro Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Hanfmann in the quarter on the 14th of October.
Pablo Patino-Samudio has an overall 42-24 win-loss record in 2022, 40-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Juan’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Santa Cruz de la Sierra 2 Challenger and the Campinas Challenger.
In terms of his career, Juan has an overall 351-220 record. He has a positive 319-188 record on clay.
Previously in the Ambato Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2021. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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