Mukund Sasikumar and Naoki Nakagawa will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Kobe Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 am on COURT C. 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 Mukund Sasikumar who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mukund Sasikumar is the pick to win this match.
Mukund Sasikumar -> 1.44
Naoki Nakagawa -> 2.62
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Prediction and head to head Mukund Sasikumar vs. Naoki Nakagawa
This will be the 2nd time that Mukund Sasikumar and Naoki Nakagawa clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kumar Mukund (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Kumar Mukund won 6-3 6-4 in the qualifications in the Busan Challenger back in October 2022.
Mukund Sasikumar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-17 | 20-17 | 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, Sasi got to the qualifications after defeating Seita Watanabe 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Sasi had a good straight sets win against Watanabe (6-3 6-1). During the match, Kumar Mukund scored 52 points vs Watanabe’s 30. Kumar Mukund was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kumar Mukund managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Mukund Sasikumar was exceptionally effective on serve to win 92% (23/25) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Indian broke Watanabe 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Kumar Mukund has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 54% of his matches (296-249). 9-6 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Kumar Mukund has an overall16-21 win-loss record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.
Kumar Mukund’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Forli 1 Challenger,M15 Jakarta and M25 Sintra.
Sasi has a composed 42-31 win-loss record in 2022, 9-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Sasi has never competed in this tournament before.
Naoki Nakagawa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-23 | 42-19 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-27 | 16-16 | 10-9 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-15 | 32-13 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-4 | 14-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 442, Nakagawa reached the qualifications after defeating Asahi Harazaki 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Harazaki (6-3 6-2). During the match Nakagawa scored 65 points vs Harazaki’s 44. Nakagawa was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Nakagawa scored 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Naoki Nakagawa was quite effective on serve to win 84% (26/31) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Harazaki 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Naoki has an aggregate 29-25 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kumar Mukund | Nakagawa |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 17 |
| Pts | 52-30 | 65-44 |
| Total Points | 82 | 109 |
| Winners | 23 | 26 |
| %Winners | 44% | 40% |
Both Kumar Mukund and Nakagawa played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kumar Mukund and Nakagawa have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kumar Mukund played 1 game less than Nakagawa. Kumar Mukund scored 23 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Naoki struck 26 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kumar Mukund | Nakagawa |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 4 |
| 1st in | 25/42 | 31/58 |
| %1st in | 60% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 23/25 | 26/31 |
| %1st pts | 92% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 14/27 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 52% |
Kumar Mukund bagged 4 aces . Nakagawa managed to score 4 aces . Kumar Mukund won 92% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Nakagawa won 84% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kumar Mukund | Nakagawa |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 57% | 67% |
| Conceded | 2 | 3 |
| Saved | 2 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Sasi broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Kumar Mukund very solid his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 2 break points. Nakagawa broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Naoki conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kumar Mukund | |||
| Q1 Watanabe |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 52-30 | 52-30 | |
| Total points | 82 | 82 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 25/42 | 25/42 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 23/25 | 23/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 92% | 92% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 10/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Nakagawa | |||
| Q1 Harazaki |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 65-44 | 65-44 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 31/58 | 31/58 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 26/31 | 26/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/27 | 14/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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