Dimitar Kuzmanov and Makoto Ochi will play each other in the 1st round of the Pune Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dimitar Kuzmanov who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dimitar Kuzmanov is the pick to win this match.
Dimitar Kuzmanov -> 1.25
Makoto Ochi -> 3.65
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Prediction and head to head Dimitar Kuzmanov vs. Makoto Ochi
There is no head to head record between Dimitar Kuzmanov and Makoto Ochi since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Dimitar Kuzmanov
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 17-20 | 7-5 | 7-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 31-25 | 9-7 | 22-15 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 32-26 | 10-7 | 16-13 | 4-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 32-25 | 8-6 | 22-15 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2020 | 20-13 | 4-1 | 13-8 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 204, Kuzmanov will start his run in the Pune Challenger after he played his last match in the Bengaluru Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-1 to Duckworth in the quarter on the 24th of February.
Dimitar has a composed 7-3 win-loss record in 2023, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Bulgarian has an overall 467-251 record. He has a positive 198-77 record on hard.
Previously in the Pune Challenger
The Bulgarian has never competed in this tournament before.
Makoto Ochi
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 13-19 | 9-14 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
2023 | 30-27 | 26-25 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 33-24 | 33-21 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 17-17 | 17-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 5-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 535, Ochi got to the 1st round after beating Calum Puttergill 6-1 6-2 and Carlos Sanchez Jover 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Sanchez Jover (6-2 6-4). During the match Ochi scored 65 points vs Sanchez Jover’s 45. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Ochi scored 5 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Makoto Ochi was quite efficient on serve to win 80% (24/30) of his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Sanchez Jover 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Makoto started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 62% of the points he played.
The Japanese has a compiled 3-3 win-loss record in 2023, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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