Mukund Sasikumar and Yunseong Chung will play each other in the 2nd round of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:00 am on COURT 5. 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 Yunseong Chung who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yunseong Chung is the pick to win this match.
Yunseong Chung -> 1.41
Mukund Sasikumar -> 2.82
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Prediction and head to head Mukund Sasikumar vs. Yunseong Chung
This will be the 2nd time that Mukund Sasikumar and Yunseong Chung clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Chung (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Chung won 6-2 6-4 in the qualifications in the Nanchang Challenger back in 2018.
Mukund Sasikumar
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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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. 353, Sasi got to the 2nd round after beating Naoki Nakagawa 6-3 7-64.
In the 1st round, Sasi had a good straight sets win against Nakagawa (6-3 7-64). During the match, Kumar Mukund scored 72 points vs Nakagawa’s 60. The Indian was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kumar Mukund recorded 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Mukund Sasikumar was quite efficient on serve to win 83% (29/35) of his 1st serve and 65% (20/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sasi broke Nakagawa twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Kumar Mukund has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 54% of his matches (297-250). 28-18 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Kumar Mukund has an overall221-160 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
Kumar Mukund’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Forli 1 Challenger,M15 Jakarta and M25 Sintra.
Kumar Mukund has an aggregate 43-32 win-loss record in 2022, 28-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger
Sasi has never competed in this tournament before.
Yunseong Chung
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 10-10 | 10-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 30-22 | 20-16 | 5-4 | 3-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 34-25 | 23-17 | 7-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 28-15 | 21-10 | 5-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 3-6 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 361, Chung reached the 2nd round after defeating Dane Sweeny 7-5 6-2.
In the 1st round, Yunseong had a good straight sets win against Sweeny (7-5 6-2). During the match Chung scored 70 points vs Sweeny’s 53. The Korean was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Chung struck 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Yunseong Chung was quite efficient on serve to win 75% (33/44) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Chung was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Sweeny 4 times.
Yunseong’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Monastir.
Chung has a composed 33-24 win-loss record in 2022, 22-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Kumar Mukund | Chung |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 22 | 20 |
Pts | 72-60 | 70-53 |
Total Points | 132 | 123 |
Winners | 29 | 33 |
%Winners | 40% | 47% |
Both Kumar Mukund and Chung played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kumar Mukund and Chung have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kumar Mukund played 2 games more than Chung. Kumar Mukund scored 29 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Korean fired 33 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Kumar Mukund | Chung |
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Aces | 5 | 2 |
Avg per match | 5 | 2 |
1st in | 35/66 | 44/63 |
%1st in | 53% | 70% |
1st pts | 29/35 | 33/44 |
%1st pts | 83% | 75% |
2nd pts | 20/31 | 10/19 |
%2nd pts | 65% | 53% |
Kumar Mukund blasted 5 aces . Chung fired 2 aces . Kumar Mukund won 83% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Chung won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Kumar Mukund | Chung |
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Won | 2 | 4 |
Converted | 2/4 | 4/4 |
% Converted | 50% | 100% |
Conceded | 2 | 2 |
Saved | 1 | 1 |
% Saved | 50% | 50% |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Kumar Mukund broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Kumar Mukund conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Yunseong broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Chung conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
Kumar Mukund | |||
R1 Nakagawa |
Total | ||
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Score | 6-3 7-64 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
pts | 72-60 | 72-60 | |
Total points | 132 | 132 | |
Winners | 29 | 29 | |
%Winners | 40% | 40% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 5 | 5 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
1st in | 35/66 | 35/66 | |
% 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
1st pts | 29/35 | 29/35 | |
% 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
2nd pts | 20/31 | 20/31 | |
% 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 2 | 2 | |
Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Chung | |||
R1 Sweeny |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
pts | 70-53 | 70-53 | |
Total points | 123 | 123 | |
Winners | 33 | 33 | |
%Winners | 47% | 47% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 2 | 2 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
1st in | 44/63 | 44/63 | |
% 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
1st pts | 33/44 | 33/44 | |
% 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
2nd pts | 10/19 | 10/19 | |
% 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Yokkaichi Challenger
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Colin SinclairSinclair – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Shintaro ImaiImai – Keisuke SaitohSaitoh (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-2 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Makoto OchiOchi (7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Shinji HazawaHazawa – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (6-3 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Duckhee LeeLee (1-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (6-4 7-61) – See score progression
- Yunseong ChungChung – Dane SweenySweeny (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Mukund SasikumarSasikumar – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-4 1-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (6-3 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Shinji HazawaHazawa – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-2 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Shintaro ImaiImai – Keisuke SaitohSaitoh (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Duckhee LeeLee (1-0 ret.) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Makoto OchiOchi (7-6(2) 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Colin SinclairSinclair (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Shinji HazawaHazawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Shintaro ImaiImai (0-0) – H2H and prediction