Yusuke Takahashi and Issei Okamura will play each other in the qualifications of the Burnie Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 am on COURT 5. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yusuke Takahashi who should win in 2 sets.
Yusuke Takahashi -> 1.28
Issei Okamura -> 3.42
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Prediction and head to head Yusuke Takahashi vs. Issei Okamura
This will be the 4th time that Yusuke Takahashi and Issei Okamura face off. The head to head is 3-0 for Takahashi (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Takahashi won 6-1 6-2 in the 1st round in the Chengdu Challenger back in 2019.
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44-26 | 40-24 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-28 | 25-25 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 33-28 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-22 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-23 | 18-21 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 708, Takahashi reached the qualifications after beating Matthew Woerndle 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Woerndle (6-2 6-1). During the match, Takahashi scored 63 points vs Woerndle’s 39. Takahashi was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Takahashi fired 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Yusuke Takahashi was quite effective on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Yusuke broke Woerndle 5 times after converting 28% of his break points (5/18).
Takahashi has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 52% of his matches (155-141). 1-0 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Takahashi has an aggregate128-112 record in the last 9 years on hard.
Takahashi has a composed 1-0 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Burnie Challenger
Issei Okamura
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19-20 | 19-16 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-27 | 22-22 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-24 | 17-18 | 0-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 12-14 | 11-12 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-10 | 8-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, the Japanese got to the qualifications after beating Liam Puttergill 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, Issei had a good straight sets win against Puttergill (6-1 6-3). During the match Okamura scored 68 points vs Puttergill’s 48. Issei was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Okamura couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 6 double faults. Issei Okamura lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Okamura put 57% of his first serves in, winning 70% (21/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (11/23) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Puttergill 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Issei has an aggregate 1-2 win-loss record in 2023, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Takahashi | Okamura |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 16 |
| Pts | 63-39 | 68-48 |
| Total Points | 102 | 116 |
| Winners | 21 | 21 |
| %Winners | 33% | 31% |
Both Takahashi and Okamura played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Takahashi and Okamura have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Takahashi played 1 game less than Okamura. The Japanese scored 21 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese fired 21 winners (31%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Takahashi | Okamura |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 0 |
| 1st in | 26/41 | 30/53 |
| %1st in | 63% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 21/30 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 9/15 | 11/23 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 48% |
Takahashi managed to score 2 aces . Okamura didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Takahashi won 81% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Okamura won 70% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Takahashi | Okamura |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/18 | 6/10 |
| % Converted | 28% | 60% |
| Conceded | 1 | 5 |
| Saved | 0 | 3 |
| % Saved | 0% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The Japanese broke his opponent 5 times with a 28% conversion rate. Yusuke lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Okamura conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| Takahashi | |||
| Q1 Woerndle | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 63-39 | 63-39 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 26/41 | 26/41 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 21/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/15 | 9/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/18 | 5/18 | |
| Converted % | 28% | 28% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Okamura | |||
| Q1 Puttergill | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 68-48 | 68-48 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 30/53 | 30/53 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 21/30 | 21/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/23 | 11/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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