Tung-Lin Wu and Rimpei Kawakami will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 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 Tung-Lin Wu who should win in 2 sets.
Tung-Lin Wu -> 1.22
Rimpei Kawakami -> 4.1
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Prediction and head to head Tung-Lin Wu vs. Rimpei Kawakami
There is no head to head record between Tung-Lin Wu and Rimpei Kawakami since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Tung-Lin Wu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-26 | 32-23 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-28 | 21-21 | 4-5 | 3-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-24 | 26-14 | 6-3 | 2-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-26 | 10-10 | 2-8 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-8 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 211, Tung-Lin reached the 2nd round after beating Yuichi Sugita 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Sugita (6-3 6-3). During the match, Wu scored 62 points vs Sugita’s 41. Tung-Lin was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Wu fired 11 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Tung-Lin Wu lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Wu put 69% of his first serves in, winning 84% (31/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. Tung-Lin was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Sugita 4 times.
Wu has a winning match record in the last 7 years having won 55% of his matches (177-144). 18-12 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Wu has a composed127-90 match record in the last 7 years on hard.
Wu’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Santo Domingo,the Tallahassee Challenger and the Little Rock Challenger.
Wu has a composed 26-22 win-loss record in 2022, 18-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokohama Challenger
Rimpei Kawakami
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 11-11 | 7-6 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-16 | 13-8 | 22-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-23 | 11-9 | 34-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 14-16 | 10-11 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 503, Kawakami got to the 2nd round after beating Taketo Takamisawa 6-2 6-4 and Tomoya Fujiwara 6-76 6-1 6-4.
In the 1st round against Fujiwara, The Japanese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-76 6-1 6-4). During the match Kawakami scored 99 points vs Fujiwara’s 86. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Kawakami made 4 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Rimpei Kawakami lost the serve 4 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Kawakami put 66% of his first serves in, winning 59% (39/66) of the points behind his 1st serve and 59% (20/34) on the 2nd serve. Kawakami broke Fujiwara 7 times after converting 78% of his break points (7/9).
The Japanese’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Doboj,M15 Prijedor and M25 Kashiwa.
The Japanese has an aggregate 33-12 win-loss record in 2022, 11-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Wu | Kawakami |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 48 |
| Pts | 62-41 | 166-135 |
| Total Points | 103 | 301 |
| Winners | 31 | 67 |
| %Winners | 50% | 40% |
Wu played 1 match while Kawakami competed in 2 matches. Kawakami started his run from the qualifications while Wu had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Rimpei Kawakami dropped 1 set while Tung-Lin Wu hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Wu has played 3 set(s) less than Kawakami (2 vs 5). Therefore, Wu played 30 games less than Kawakami. Tung-Lin scored 31 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese blasted 67 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Wu | Kawakami |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 3.5 |
| 1st in | 37/54 | 106/156 |
| %1st in | 69% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 31/37 | 67/106 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 63% |
| 2nd pts | 8/17 | 32/50 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 64% |
Wu recorded 11 aces . Kawakami fired 7 aces (3.5 per match). Wu won 84% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Kawakami won 63% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Wu | Kawakami |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 10 |
| Converted | 4/4 | 10/13 |
| % Converted | 100% | 77% |
| Conceded | 6 | 7 |
| Saved | 5 | 3 |
| % Saved | 83% | 43% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Tung-Lin broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Wu surrendered his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Rimpei broke his opponents 10 times with a 77% conversion rate. Rimpei conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 43% of the break points that he conceded.
| Wu | |||
| R1 Sugita | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 62-41 | 62-41 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 37/54 | 37/54 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 31/37 | 31/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/17 | 8/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kawakami | |||||
| Q1 Takamisawa | Q3 Tanuma | R1 Fujiwara | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | 7-67 4-6 6-4 | 6-76 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 33 | 30 | 81 | |
| pts | 67-49 | – | 99-86 | 166-135 | |
| Total points | 116 | 0 | 185 | 301 | |
| Winners | 28 | 39 | 67 | ||
| %Winners | 42% | 0% | 39% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 1st in | 40/56 | / | 66/100 | 106/156 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 0% | 66% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 28/40 | / | 39/66 | 67/106 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 0% | 59% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/16 | / | 20/34 | 32/50 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 0% | 59% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 7 | 10 | ||
| Converted | 3/4 | / | 7/9 | 10/13 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 0% | 78% | 77% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 7 | 7 | ||
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/ | 3/7 | 3 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 43% | 43% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 | 4 | ||
Tennis Scores in Yokohama Challenger
- Rimpei KawakamiKawakami – Tomoya FujiwaraFujiwara (6-76 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-3 6-75 6-1) – See score progression
- Yunseong ChungChung – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Tatsuma ItoIto – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (4-6 6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- John MillmanMillman – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Jonathan MridhaMridha (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (7-67 0-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (3-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Ryota TanumaTanuma (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Ergi KirkinKirkin – Shinji HazawaHazawa (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Yuichi SugitaSugita (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Ryota TanumaTanuma (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Jonathan MridhaMridha (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (7-6(7) 0-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-3 6-7(5) 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – John MillmanMillman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Ergi KirkinKirkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Kaichi UchidaUchida (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Tatsuma ItoIto (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Jason JungJung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rimpei KawakamiKawakami – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction