Rio Noguchi and Dominik Koepfer will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Mexico City Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on CANCHA 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dominik Koepfer who should win in 2 sets.
Dominik Koepfer -> 1.21
Rio Noguchi -> 4.05
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Prediction and head to head Rio Noguchi vs. Dominik Koepfer
There is no head to head record between Rio Noguchi and Dominik Koepfer since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Rio Noguchi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37-30 | 37-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-31 | 36-22 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 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 |
Ranked no. 205, Noguchi will start his run in the Mexico City Challenger after he played his last match in the Pune Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-0 to Nardi in the quarter on the 3rd of March.
Noguchi has an overall 3-5 win-loss record in 2023, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 272-171 record. He has a positive 62-51 record on clay.
Previously in the Mexico City Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.
Dominik Koepfer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 21-19 | 10-6 | 6-9 | 3-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-19 | 7-6 | 24-5 | 6-6 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 19-14 | 12-9 | 0-0 | 7-2 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-30 | 10-12 | 10-9 | 5-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 262, the German reached the 1st round after defeating Valerio Aboian 7-5 3-6 6-4 and Dmitry Popko 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Dominik had a good straight sets win against Popko (6-3 6-1). During the match Koepfer scored 63 points vs Popko’s 41. The German was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Koepfer struck 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Dominik Koepfer was quite efficient on serve to win 77% (24/31) of his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The German broke Popko 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Koepfer started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Dominik has an aggregate 2-3 win-loss record in 2023, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Mexico City Challenger
Dominik has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Mexico City Challenger
- Renzo OlivoOlivo – Luciano DarderiDarderi (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Nick HardtHardt (6-74 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Rodrigo Pacheco MendezPacheco Mendez (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Felipe Meligeni AlvesMeligeni Alves – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Bernard TomicTomic (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jan ChoinskiJan – Alexis GalarneauAlexis (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Renzo OlivoOlivo – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico GaioGaio – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elmar EjupovicEjupovic – Antoine BellierBellier (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Facundo MenaMena (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (0-0) – H2H and prediction