Naoki Nakagawa and Shinji Hazawa will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Kobe Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Naoki Nakagawa who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Naoki Nakagawa is the pick to win this match.
Naoki Nakagawa -> 1.48
Shinji Hazawa -> 2.57

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Prediction and head to head Naoki Nakagawa vs. Shinji Hazawa

This will be the 2^nd time that Naoki Nakagawa and Shinji Hazawa clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nakagawa (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they played each other, Nakagawa won 6-4 6-4 in the qualifications in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger back in September 2022.

Naoki Nakagawa

Naoki Nakagawa

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	24-15	12-11	1-1	11-3	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

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Ranked no. 448, Nakagawa got to the 2^nd round after beating Asahi Harazaki 6-3 6-2, Mukund Sasikumar 6-3 7-6⁵ and Shintaro Mochizuki 6-4 6-2.

In the 1^st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Mochizuki (6-4 6-2). During the match, Nakagawa scored 64 points vs Mochizuki’s 52. Naoki was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about the service games, Nakagawa fired 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Naoki Nakagawa lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Nakagawa put 51% of his first serves in, winning 75% (21/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (13/27) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Mochizuki 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Nakagawa has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 61% of his matches (256-165). 5-1 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Nakagawa has a composed8-7 match record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.

Nakagawa has a composed 31-25 win-loss record in 2022, 5-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Kobe Challenger

Kobe Challenger

Nakagawa's Record

Shinji Hazawa

Shinji Hazawa

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Rank
855

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501

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	14-13	14-11	0-1	0-1	0-0	0-0
2023	16-15	14-13	0-0	2-2	0-0	0-0
2022	51-27	49-26	0-0	2-1	0-0	0-0
2021	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0
2020	2-3	0-0	2-3	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 655, Shinji reached the 2^nd round after beating James Duckworth 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Hazawa had a good straight sets win against Duckworth (6-4 6-4). During the match Hazawa scored 66 points vs Duckworth’s 56. Hazawa was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about serving, Hazawa recorded 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Shinji Hazawa conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Hazawa put 73% of his first serves in, winning 81% (35/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (8/16) on the 2nd serve. Shinji broke Duckworth twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

The Japanese’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Seremban.

Hazawa has a composed 49-25 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Kobe Challenger

Hazawa's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Nakagawa played 3 matches while Hazawa competed in 1 match. Nakagawa started his run from the qualifications while Hazawa had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Nakagawa has played 4 sets more than Hazawa (6 vs 2). Therefore, Nakagawa played 37 games more than Hazawa. Naoki scored 71 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Hazawa managed to score 35 winners (53%).

Serve Performance

Nakagawa fired 14 aces (4.7 per match). Hazawa managed to score 3 aces . Nakagawa won 78% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Hazawa won 81% 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

Nakagawa broke his opponents 13 times with a 54% conversion rate. Naoki dropped his serve 5 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Hazawa was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.

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Shinji
Hazawa

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381

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334

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855

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Win Loss

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2024 2023 2022

24 - 15

14 - 13

12-11

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14-11

11-3

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0-1

1-1

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0-1

Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger

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• Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• John MillmanMillman – Shintaro ImaiImai (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – John MillmanMillman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Zdenek KolarKolar – Marc PolmansPolmans (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Shinji HazawaHazawa – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (0-1) – H2H and prediction

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