Damir Dzumhur and Taisei Ichikawa will face off in the 1st round of the Kobe Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 3:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Damir Dzumhur who should win in 2 sets.
Damir Dzumhur -> 1.108
Taisei Ichikawa -> 5.8
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Prediction and head to head Damir Dzumhur vs. Taisei Ichikawa
There is no head to head record between Damir Dzumhur and Taisei Ichikawa since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Damir Dzumhur
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 42-29 | 11-13 | 23-6 | 6-7 | 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. 180, Damir will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Matsuyama Challenger where he lost 5-7 7-6(4) 6-4
to Mochizuki in the 2nd round on the 10th of November.Damir has an aggregate 33-27 win-loss record in 2022, 9-10 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Damir’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Banja Luka Challenger and the Sibiu Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Dzumhur has an overall 477-330 record. He has a positive 97-71 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Dzumhur has never competed in this tournament before.
Taisei Ichikawa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-16 | 17-13 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-25 | 29-19 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-18 | 12-15 | 4-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-19 | 8-16 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 877, the Japanese will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Yokohama Challenger where he lost 6-3 7-6(5) to Millman in the 1st round on the 31st of October.
The Japanese has an aggregate 16-17 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)
.This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
The Japanese’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Ulcinj.
In terms of his career, Taisei has an overall 57-65 record. He has a positive 3-2 record on indoor hard courts.
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Shinji HazawaHazawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Renta TokudaTokuda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shintaro ImaiImai – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Tatsuma ItoIto (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Jason JungJung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – John MillmanMillman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Colin SinclairSinclair (0-0) – H2H and prediction