Rio Noguchi and Jason Jung will square off in the 1st round of the Kobe Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT C. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jason Jung who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jason Jung is the pick to win this match.
Jason Jung -> 1.43
Rio Noguchi -> 2.66
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Prediction and head to head Rio Noguchi vs. Jason Jung
There is no head to head record between Rio Noguchi and Jason Jung since this will be the first time that they will square off 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. 204, Rio will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Matsuyama Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-3 to Wu in the 1st round on the 8th of November.
The Japanese has an overall 54-20 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 season was getting to the final in M25 Harmon,Nova,M25 Sapporo,M25 Kashiwa and the Playford Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Rio has an overall 269-164 record. He has a flat 5-5 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2018. See his history.
Jason Jung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-25 | 40-23 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-28 | 13-14 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-25 | 5-12 | 1-4 | 2-6 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-18 | 7-8 | 2-4 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 399, the Chinese reached the 1st round after beating Keisuke Saitoh 4-6 6-3 6-3 and Yuki Mochizuki 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Jung had a good straight sets win against Mochizuki (6-3 6-3). During the match Jung scored 77 points vs Mochizuki’s 62. The Chinese was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.
About the serving games, Jung managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Jason Jung lost the serve twice and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Jung put 69% of his first serves in, winning 66% (38/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 35% (9/26) on the 2nd serve. Jung broke Mochizuki 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Jason started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Jung has an overall 23-25 win-loss record in 2022, 3-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (6-3 6-77 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- John MillmanMillman – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (6-3 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jason JungJung – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Shinji HazawaHazawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Colin SinclairSinclair (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Li TuTu (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
- Yunseong ChungChung – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Tatsuma ItoIto (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (1-0) – H2H and prediction
