Rio Noguchi and Marek Gengel will play each other in the 2nd round of the Sydney Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rio Noguchi who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rio Noguchi is the pick to win this match.
Rio Noguchi -> 1.62
Marek Gengel -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Rio Noguchi vs. Marek Gengel
There is no head to head record between Rio Noguchi and Marek Gengel since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Rio Noguchi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-18 | 17-11 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 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 |
| 2020 | 14-12 | 5-6 | 0-3 | 3-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 202 (career-high), Rio got to the 2nd round after defeating Philip Sekulic 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Rio had a good straight sets win against Sekulic (6-2 6-4). During the match, Noguchi scored 62 points vs Sekulic’s 42. Noguchi was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Noguchi recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Rio Noguchi was pretty efficient on serve to win 74% (28/38) of his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Sekulic 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Noguchi has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 62% of his matches (269-162). 41-7 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Noguchi has a composed176-97 match record in the last 7 years on hard.
Noguchi’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Harmon,Nova,M25 Sapporo,M25 Kashiwa and the Playford Challenger.
Noguchi has an aggregate 54-18 win-loss record in 2022, 41-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Marek Gengel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-14 | 33-13 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-27 | 14-15 | 0-7 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-29 | 28-16 | 4-8 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 52-28 | 47-14 | 3-8 | 2-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-17 | 16-12 | 2-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 377, the Czech reached the 2nd round after defeating Jeremy Beale 6-4 6-0.
In the 1st round, Marek had a good straight sets win against Beale (6-4 6-0). During the match Gengel scored 61 points vs Beale’s 36. Marek was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Gengel couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Marek Gengel was exceptionally effective on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 73% (8/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Czech broke Beale 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Marek’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Sharm ElSheikh.
The Czech has a composed 30-28 win-loss record in 2022, 21-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Noguchi | Gengel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 16 |
| Pts | 62-42 | 61-36 |
| Total Points | 104 | 97 |
| Winners | 28 | 26 |
| %Winners | 45% | 43% |
Both Noguchi and Gengel played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Noguchi and Gengel have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Noguchi played 2 games more than Gengel. Noguchi scored 28 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Marek struck 26 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Noguchi | Gengel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 0 |
| 1st in | 38/54 | 33/44 |
| %1st in | 70% | 75% |
| 1st pts | 28/38 | 26/33 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 9/16 | 8/11 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 73% |
Noguchi fired 2 aces . Gengel didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Noguchi won 74% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Gengel won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 73% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Noguchi | Gengel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/10 |
| % Converted | 80% | 40% |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 |
| Saved | 3 | 0 |
| % Saved | 75% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Noguchi broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Noguchi dropped his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Gengel broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Marek was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Noguchi | |||
| R1 Sekulic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 62-42 | 62-42 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 38/54 | 38/54 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 28/38 | 28/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/16 | 9/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Gengel | |||
| R1 Beale |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 61-36 | 61-36 | |
| Total points | 97 | 97 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 33/44 | 33/44 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 75% | |
| 1st pts | 26/33 | 26/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/11 | 8/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 73% | 73% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Adam WaltonWalton – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Marek GengelGengel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
