Damir Dzumhur and James Kent Trotter will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:30 pm on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Damir Dzumhur who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Damir Dzumhur is the pick to win this match.
Damir Dzumhur -> 1.56
James Kent Trotter -> 2.36
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Prediction and head to head Damir Dzumhur vs. James Kent Trotter
There is no head to head record between Damir Dzumhur and James Kent Trotter since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Damir Dzumhur
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-17 | 6-8 | 17-5 | 4-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-34 | 15-5 | 18-18 | 8-9 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 34-28 | 5-5 | 19-12 | 10-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-32 | 6-6 | 17-17 | 6-6 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-15 | 4-7 | 6-4 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 179, Damir reached the 2nd round after defeating Ryota Tanuma 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Bosnian had a good straight sets win against Tanuma (6-3 6-1). During the match, Dzumhur scored 58 points vs Tanuma’s 36. Damir was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Dzumhur was unable to score even 1 ace in the course of the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Damir Dzumhur was very efficient on serve to win 79% (23/29) of his 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Bosnian broke Tanuma 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Dzumhur has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (365-276). 3-3 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Dzumhur has a compiled 85-86 record in the last years on hard.
Dzumhur’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Banja Luka Challenger and the Sibiu Challenger.
Dzumhur has an overall 31-25 win-loss record in 2022, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokohama Challenger
The Bosnian has never competed in this tournament before.
James Kent Trotter
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-13 | 11-7 | 1-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-13 | 15-10 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-11 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 653, the Japanese reached the 2nd round after beating Vlad Victor Cornea 5-7 7-5 6-1, Naru Shirafuji 6-3 6-3 and Jonathan Mridha 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, Kent had a good straight sets win against Mridha (6-4 6-1). During the match Kent scored 63 points vs Mridha’s 44. Kent was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Kent blasted 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. James Kent Trotter lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Kent put 61% of his first serves in, winning 76% (26/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. Kent broke Mridha 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
The Japanese’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Edwardsville.
James has a compiled 19-7 win-loss record in 2022, 14-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Dzumhur | Kent |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 66 |
| Pts | 58-36 | 242-181 |
| Total Points | 94 | 423 |
| Winners | 23 | 93 |
| %Winners | 40% | 38% |
Dzumhur played 1 match while Kent competed in 3 matches. Kent started his run from the qualifications while Dzumhur had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, James Kent Trotter surrendered 1 set while Damir Dzumhur hasn’t dropped a set so far. Dzumhur has played 5 set(s) less than Kent (2 vs 7). Therefore, Dzumhur played 50 games less than Kent. Dzumhur scored 23 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese struck 93 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Dzumhur | Kent |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 28 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 9.3 |
| 1st in | 29/43 | 114/187 |
| %1st in | 67% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 93/114 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 10/14 | 46/73 |
| %2nd pts | 71% | 63% |
Dzumhur didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Kent made 28 aces (9.3 per match). Dzumhur won 79% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Kent won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Dzumhur | Kent |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 10 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 10/30 |
| % Converted | 67% | 33% |
| Conceded | 1 | 7 |
| Saved | 1 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The Bosnian broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Damir pretty solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Japanese broke his opponents 10 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Dzumhur | |||
| R1 Tanuma |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 58-36 | 58-36 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 29/43 | 29/43 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/14 | 10/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kent | |||||
| Q1 Victor Cornea |
Q3 Shirafuji |
R1 Mridha |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 5-7 7-5 6-1 | 6-3 6-3 | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 18 | 17 | 66 | |
| pts | 105-86 | 74-51 | 63-44 | 242-181 | |
| Total points | 191 | 125 | 107 | 423 | |
| Winners | 44 | 23 | 26 | 93 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 31% | 41% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 15 | 7 | 6 | 28 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 54/80 | 26/51 | 34/56 | 114/187 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 51% | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 44/54 | 23/26 | 26/34 | 93/114 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 88% | 76% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/26 | 17/25 | 11/22 | 46/73 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 68% | 50% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | |
| Converted | 3/14 | 3/9 | 4/7 | 10/30 | |
| Converted % | 21% | 33% | 57% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 3/3 | 2/3 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 100% | 67% | 167% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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