John Millman and Taisei Ichikawa will play each other in the 1st round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is John Millman who should win in 2 sets.
John Millman -> 1.013
Taisei Ichikawa -> 11.25
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Prediction and head to head John Millman vs. Taisei Ichikawa
There is no head to head record between John Millman and Taisei Ichikawa since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
John Millman
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 5-5 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-27 | 13-15 | 3-6 | 2-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-27 | 6-9 | 7-7 | 8-8 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-13 | 10-6 | 1-3 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 160, John will start his run in the Yokohama Challenger after he played his last match in the Busan Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-4 7-5 to Chan Hong in the quarter on the 21st of October.
The Australian has a compiled 18-26 win-loss record in 2022, 11-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Millman’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Delray Beach.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 441-313 record. He has a positive 262-164 record on hard.
Previously in the Yokohama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2018. See his history.
Taisei Ichikawa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-17 | 17-14 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-25 | 29-19 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-18 | 12-15 | 4-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-19 | 8-16 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 899, Taisei got to the 1st round after beating Ji Sung Nam 7-68 7-5 and Daisuke Sumizawa 2-6 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications against Sumizawa, Taisei recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-4 6-2). During the match Ichikawa scored 96 points vs Sumizawa’s 89. The Japanese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Ichikawa recorded 5 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Taisei Ichikawa lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Ichikawa put 67% of his first serves in, winning 69% (40/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the 2nd serve. Taisei broke Sumizawa 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Ichikawa’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Ulcinj.
Taisei has a composed 16-16 win-loss record in 2022, 12-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Yokohama Challenger
- Ergi KirkinKirkin – Shinji HazawaHazawa (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Yuichi SugitaSugita (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jason JungJung – Zdenek KolarKolar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Ryota TanumaTanuma (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Tatsuma ItoIto (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Yunseong ChungChung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Taisei IchikawaIchikawa – John MillmanMillman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Jonathan MridhaMridha (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomoya FujiwaraFujiwara – Shintaro ImaiImai (0-0) – H2H and prediction