Rio Noguchi and Yuichi Sugita will face off in the 1st round of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 3:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rio Noguchi who should win in 3 sets.
Rio Noguchi -> 1.48
Yuichi Sugita -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Rio Noguchi vs. Yuichi Sugita
There is no head to head record between Rio Noguchi and Yuichi Sugita 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38-31 | 38-31 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-31 | 36-22 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 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 |
Ranked no. 204, Noguchi will start his run in the Yokkaichi Challenger after he played his last match in the Kobe Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-4 6-1 to Jung in the 1st round on the 15th of November.
The Japanese has a compiled 54-21 win-loss record in 2022, 41-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Noguchi’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, Noguchi has an overall 269-165 record. He has a positive 176-99 record on hard.
Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Yuichi Sugita
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 2-13 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 1-3 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 7-14 | 3-5 | 0-3 | 3-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-15 | 9-8 | 1-3 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 45-28 | 27-16 | 0-0 | 10-6 | 7-5 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 662, Sugita will start his run in the Yokkaichi Challenger after he played his last match in the Kobe Challenger where he lost 4-6 6-4 6-4 to Zhukayev in the 1st round on the 15th of November.
The Japanese has an overall 1-12 win-loss record in 2022, 0-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, Sugita has an overall 514-375 record. He has a positive 329-224 record on hard.
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jason JungJung – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Colin SinclairSinclair – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Makoto OchiOchi – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Yuichi SugitaSugita (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rimpei KawakamiKawakami – Duckhee LeeLee (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Yunseong ChungChung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shinji HazawaHazawa – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (0-1) – H2H and prediction