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

Mukund Sasikumar

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
461
High
229
LWWLLLLLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 14-14 14-14 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.

Yokkaichi Challenger
Kumar Mukund's Record

Yunseong Chung

Yunseong Chung

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
545
High
233
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
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).

Yokkaichi Challenger
Chung's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

S.Kumar Mukund
Y.Chung
1h:34
1h:34
Time on court​
1h:09
1h:09
1h:34
1h:34
Last match​
1h:09
1h:09
1
1
Match played
1
1
22
22
Games Played​
20
20
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
72
72
Total points​
70
70
72
72
Avg point​
70
70
29
29
Winners
33
33
29
29
Avg Winners​
33
33
40%
40%
Ratio winners
47%
47%
-- Serve --
5
5
Aces
2
2
5
5
Avg Aces
2
2
3
3
Double Faults
4
4
3
3
Avg Double Faults
4
4
29/35
29/35
1st won total​
33/44
33/44
!
83%
83%
1st won %
!
75%
75%
20/31
20/31
2nd won total​
10/19
10/19
!
65%
65%
2nd won %
53%
53%
-- Break Points --
2/4
2/4
BP won
4/4
4/4
2/4
2/4
Avg BP won
4/4
4/4
50%
50%
Won
!
100%
100%
2
2
Conceded
2
2
2
2
Avg Conceded
2
2
1
1
Broken
1
1
1
1
Avg Broken
1
1
1
1
Saved
1
1

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
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
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
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

Tennis Scores in Yokkaichi Challenger

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