Rio Noguchi and Nikola Milojevic will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Pune Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. 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 Nikola Milojevic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nikola Milojevic is the pick to win this match.
Nikola Milojevic -> 1.6
Rio Noguchi -> 2.23
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Prediction and head to head Rio Noguchi vs. Nikola Milojevic
There is no head to head record between Rio Noguchi and Nikola Milojevic since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Rio Noguchi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-12 | 16-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 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 |
| 2020 | 14-12 | 5-6 | 0-3 | 3-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 210, Rio reached the 2nd round after beating Marek Gengel 4-6 6-2 7-61.
In the 1st round against Gengel, Rio recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 7-61). During the match, Noguchi scored 105 points vs Gengel’s 93. Rio was very aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about the service games, Noguchi bagged 2 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Rio Noguchi lost the serve 5 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Noguchi put 49% of his first serves in, winning 77% (37/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (22/49) on the 2nd serve. Rio broke Gengel 6 times after converting 46% of his break points (6/13).
Noguchi has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 61% of his matches (271-170). 2-4 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Noguchi has a compiled178-104 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
Rio has a composed 2-4 win-loss record in 2023, 2-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pune Challenger
Nikola Milojevic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 7-13 | 6-6 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-33 | 3-3 | 21-29 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-25 | 1-3 | 34-18 | 2-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-11 | 6-4 | 5-3 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 321, Nikola reached the 2nd round after defeating Digvijaypratap Singh 6-1 7-5, Dayne Kelly 7-60 6-4 and Frederico Ferreira Silva 6-71 7-65 6-4.
In the 1st round against Ferreira Silva, Nikola recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-71 7-65 6-4). During the match Milojevic scored 115 points vs Ferreira Silva’s 110. The Serbian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 56 winners.
Talking about serving, Milojevic recorded 7 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Nikola Milojevic was very effective on serve to win 75% (56/75) of his 1st serve and 58% (22/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Nikola broke Ferreira Silva twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Milojevic has an aggregate 6-5 win-loss record in 2023, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Noguchi | Milojevic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 31 | 78 |
| Pts | 105-93 | 264-221 |
| Total Points | 198 | 485 |
| Winners | 37 | 112 |
| %Winners | 35% | 42% |
Noguchi played 1 match while Milojevic competed in 3 matches. Milojevic started his run from the qualifications while Noguchi had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Rio Noguchi conceded 1 set, while Nikola Milojevic dropped 1 set. Noguchi has played 4 set(s) less than Milojevic (3 vs 7). Therefore, Noguchi played 47 games less than Milojevic. Noguchi scored 37 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Milojevic struck 112 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Noguchi | Milojevic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 28 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 9.3 |
| 1st in | 48/97 | 143/227 |
| %1st in | 49% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 37/48 | 112/143 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 22/49 | 49/84 |
| %2nd pts | 45% | 58% |
Noguchi struck 2 aces . Milojevic bagged 28 aces (9.3 per match). Noguchi won 77% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Milojevic won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Noguchi | Milojevic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 9 |
| Converted | 6/13 | 9/25 |
| % Converted | 46% | 36% |
| Conceded | 10 | 13 |
| Saved | 5 | 10 |
| % Saved | 50% | 77% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 3 |
Noguchi broke his opponent 6 times with a 46% conversion rate. Rio conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Nikola broke his opponents 9 times with a 36% conversion rate. Nikola conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 77% of the break points that he conceded.
| Noguchi | |||
| R1 Gengel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-2 7-61 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 31 | |
| pts | 105-93 | 105-93 | |
| Total points | 198 | 198 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 48/97 | 48/97 | |
| % 1st in | 49% | 49% | |
| 1st pts | 37/48 | 37/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/49 | 22/49 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/13 | 6/13 | |
| Converted % | 46% | 46% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 5/10 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
| Milojevic | |||||
| Q1 Singh |
Q3 Kelly |
R1 Ferreira Silva |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-5 | 7-60 6-4 | 6-71 7-65 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 23 | 36 | 78 | |
| pts | 67-46 | 82-65 | 115-110 | 264-221 | |
| Total points | 113 | 147 | 225 | 485 | |
| Winners | 24 | 32 | 56 | 112 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 39% | 49% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 6 | 15 | 7 | 28 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 | |
| 1st in | 25/46 | 43/68 | 75/113 | 143/227 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 63% | 66% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 24/25 | 32/43 | 56/75 | 112/143 | |
| % 1st pts | 96% | 74% | 75% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/21 | 17/25 | 22/38 | 49/84 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 68% | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 2/6 | 2/7 | 9/25 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 33% | 29% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 6 | 5 | 13 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 5/6 | 4/5 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 83% | 80% | 213% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWWLWWLWW Tennis Scores in Pune Challenger
- Max PurcellPurcell – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (3-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Arjun KadheKadhe (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Sumit NagalNagal – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-63 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Dominik PalanPalan – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Dane SweenySweeny – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Makoto OchiOchi (5-7 7-61 6-2) – See score progression
- Luca NardiNardi – Benjamin LockLock (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (6-75 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (6-71 7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Harold MayotMayot – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Yunseong ChungChung (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Akira SantillanSantillan (4-6 7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Marek GengelGengel (4-6 6-2 7-61) – See score progression
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Marc PolmansPolmans (1-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (6-7(5) 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Yunseong ChungChung (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Harold MayotMayot – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (3-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Dane SweenySweeny – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Miljan ZekicZekic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Harold MayotMayot (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (1-0) – H2H and prediction
