Rio Noguchi and Calum Puttergill will play each other in the 1st round of the Playford Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 1. 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 Rio Noguchi who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rio Noguchi is the pick to win this match.
Rio Noguchi -> 1.136
Calum Puttergill -> 5.1
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Prediction and head to head Rio Noguchi vs. Calum Puttergill
There is no head to head record between Rio Noguchi and Calum Puttergill since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Rio Noguchi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38-31 | 38-31 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-31 | 36-22 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-31 | 12-18 | 2-7 | 2-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-22 | 41-10 | 9-9 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-26 | 18-18 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 246, Rio will start his run in the Playford Challenger after he played his last match in Tokyo where he lost 6-3 6-1 to Shapovalov in the 2nd round on the 6th of October.
Rio has an aggregate 49-17 win-loss record in 2022, 36-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Japanese’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Harmon,Nova,M25 Sapporo and M25 Kashiwa.
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 264-161 record. He has a positive 171-96 record on hard.
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Rio has never competed in this tournament before.
Calum Puttergill
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 3-7 | 3-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-22 | 8-16 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-28 | 25-26 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 865, Puttergill got to the 1st round after defeating Jesse Delaney 7-5 6-2 and Zaharije-Zak Talic 6-2 6-0.
In the qualifications, Calum had a good straight sets win against Talic (6-2 6-0). During the match Puttergill scored 57 points vs Talic’s 29. Calum was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about serving, Puttergill was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Calum Puttergill was pretty efficient on serve to win 81% (17/21) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Puttergill broke Talic 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Calum started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 60% of the points he played.
Puttergill has a compiled 21-22 win-loss record in 2022, 21-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Luke SavilleSaville – Kyle SeeligSeelig (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Calum PuttergillPuttergill – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Li TuTu – Jose StathamStatham (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blake MottMott – Dayne KellyKelly (5-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aaron AddisonAddison – Callum GaleGale (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomislav Edward PapacEdward Papac – Corey GaalGaal (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blake EllisEllis – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marek GengelGengel – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Patrick FitzgeraldFitzgerald – Jake DelaneyDelaney (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Ajeet RaiRai (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
