Mukund Sasikumar and Seong Chan Hong will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 8. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Seong Chan Hong who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Seong Chan Hong is the pick to win this match.
Seong Chan Hong -> 1.75
Mukund Sasikumar -> 1.99
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Prediction and head to head Mukund Sasikumar vs. Seong Chan Hong
This will be the 4th time that Mukund Sasikumar and Seong Chan Hong fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Chan Hong (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Kumar Mukund won 4-6 6-1 7-5 in the 1st round in the Gwangju Challenger back in October 2022.
Mukund Sasikumar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-17 | 19-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-31 | 21-25 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-35 | 33-21 | 6-7 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-32 | 25-24 | 2-3 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-9 | 4-4 | 0-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 349, Kumar Mukund got to the 1st round after defeating Keisuke Saitoh 6-3 6-2 and Rimpei Kawakami 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Kumar Mukund had a good straight sets win against Kawakami (6-2 6-2). During the match, Kumar Mukund scored 59 points vs Kawakami’s 41. Kumar Mukund was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kumar Mukund scored 2 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Mukund Sasikumar was extremely effective on serve to win 88% (22/25) of his 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kumar Mukund broke Kawakami 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sasi started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 59% of the points he played.
Kumar Mukund has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 54% of his matches (295-248). 27-17 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kumar Mukund has an aggregate220-159 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Indian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Forli 1 Challenger,M15 Jakarta and M25 Sintra.
Kumar Mukund has a compiled 41-30 win-loss record in 2022, 27-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Sasi has never competed in this tournament before.
Seong Chan Hong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-18 | 27-14 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-34 | 17-18 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-18 | 36-12 | 4-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-8 | 7-3 | 10-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 371, Chan Hong reached the 1st round after defeating Kentaro Otsuka 6-0 6-1 and Shinji Hazawa 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Seong had a good straight sets win against Hazawa (6-3 6-4). During the match Chan Hong scored 64 points vs Hazawa’s 47. Chan Hong was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Chan Hong made 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Seong Chan Hong lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Chan Hong put 54% of his first serves in, winning 82% (27/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (13/28) on the 2nd serve. Chan Hong was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Hazawa 4 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Korean started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 62% of the points he played.
Chan Hong’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Chiang Rai and M25 Harmon.
The Korean has an aggregate 35-18 win-loss record in 2022, 31-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kumar Mukund | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 33 | 32 |
| Pts | 123-87 | 117-71 |
| Total Points | 210 | 188 |
| Winners | 50 | 43 |
| %Winners | 41% | 37% |
Both Kumar Mukund and Chan Hong played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kumar Mukund and Chan Hong have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Kumar Mukund played 1 game more than Chan Hong. The Indian scored 50 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Seong struck 43 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kumar Mukund | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 4 |
| 1st in | 64/108 | 51/93 |
| %1st in | 59% | 55% |
| 1st pts | 50/64 | 43/51 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 24/44 | 21/42 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 50% |
Kumar Mukund bagged 10 aces (5 per match). Chan Hong made 8 aces (4 per match). Kumar Mukund won 78% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Chan Hong won 84% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kumar Mukund | Chan Hong |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 10 |
| Converted | 8/14 | 10/13 |
| % Converted | 57% | 77% |
| Conceded | 6 | 7 |
| Saved | 5 | 5 |
| % Saved | 83% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Sasi broke his opponents 8 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Indian lost his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Chan Hong broke his opponents 10 times with a 77% conversion rate. Chan Hong conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kumar Mukund | ||||
| Q1 Saitoh |
Q3 Kawakami |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 16 | 33 | |
| pts | 64-46 | 59-41 | 123-87 | |
| Total points | 110 | 100 | 210 | |
| Winners | 28 | 22 | 50 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 37% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 8 | 2 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 39/62 | 25/46 | 64/108 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 54% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 28/39 | 22/25 | 50/64 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 88% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 11/21 | 24/44 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 52% | 55% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/9 | 8/14 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 44% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 2/2 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 100% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Chan Hong | ||||
| Q1 Otsuka |
Q3 Hazawa |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-1 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 19 | 32 | |
| pts | 53-24 | 64-47 | 117-71 | |
| Total points | 77 | 111 | 188 | |
| Winners | 16 | 27 | 43 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 42% | 37% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 18/32 | 33/61 | 51/93 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 54% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 16/18 | 27/33 | 43/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 82% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/14 | 13/28 | 21/42 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 46% | 50% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 4 | 10 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 4/4 | 10/13 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 100% | 77% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | – | 71% | 36% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
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