Yusuke Takahashi and Blake Ellis will play each other in the 1st round of the Playford Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on CENTER COURT. 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 Blake Ellis who should win in 3 sets.
Blake Ellis -> 1.51
Yusuke Takahashi -> 2.42
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Prediction and head to head Yusuke Takahashi vs. Blake Ellis
This will be the 2nd time that Yusuke Takahashi and Blake Ellis fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ellis (see full H2H stats
), but they have never competed against each other on hard.The last time that they competed against each other, Ellis won 6-7(4) 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in the Kyoto Challenger back in 2018.
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44-26 | 40-24 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-28 | 25-25 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 33-28 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-22 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-23 | 18-21 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 772, the Japanese got to the 1st round after beating Jason Taylor 6-2 6-0.
In the qualifications, Takahashi had a good straight sets win against Taylor (6-2 6-0). During the match, Takahashi scored 60 points vs Taylor’s 29. Yusuke was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Takahashi blasted 2 aces and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults. Yusuke Takahashi was quite efficient on serve to win 96% (22/23) of his 1st serve and 75% (6/8) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Takahashi broke Taylor 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Takahashi has a winning match record in the last 8 years having won 53% of his matches (151-136). 14-17 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Takahashi has an aggregate124-108 record in the last 8 years on hard.
The Japanese has a composed 14-17 win-loss record in 2022, 14-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Playford Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Blake Ellis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-10 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 8-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 49-31 | 41-26 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-29 | 43-25 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-11 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-14 | 16-8 | 0-0 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 800, Ellis will start his run in the Playford Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Cairns where he lost 7-6(1) 3-6 7-6(3) to Sinclair in the 2nd round on the 13th of October.
Blake has a composed 7-5 win-loss record in 2022, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Blake’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Cairns.
In terms of his career, The Australian has an overall 118-96 record. He has a positive 93-82 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Playford Challenger
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Jeremy BealeBeale (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dane SweenySweeny – Edward WinterWinter (3-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Omar JasikaJasika – Mark WhitehouseWhitehouse (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Colin SinclairSinclair – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-4 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marek GengelGengel – Alex BoltBolt (3-6 6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
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