Seong Chan Hong and Rio Noguchi will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Tallahassee Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 2:30 pm on STADIUM COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Seong Chan Hong who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Seong Chan Hong is the pick to win this match.
Seong Chan Hong -> 1.39
Rio Noguchi -> 2.82
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Prediction and head to head Seong Chan Hong vs. Rio Noguchi
This will be the 4th time that Seong Chan Hong and Rio Noguchi square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Chan Hong (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Chan Hong won 6-3 6-2 in the final in M25 Harmon back in 2022.
Seong Chan Hong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-22 | 20-17 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-27 | 14-12 | 10-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-26 | 4-7 | 23-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-15 | 9-7 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-8 | 8-3 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 200 (career-high), the Korean got to the 2nd round after beating Christian Harrison 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Seong had a good straight sets win against Harrison (6-3 6-1). During the match, Chan Hong scored 57 points vs Harrison’s 34. Seong was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Chan Hong recorded 3 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults. Seong Chan Hong was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 86% (24/28) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Chan Hong broke Harrison 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Chan Hong has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 66% of his matches (199-102). 2-3 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Chan Hong has an overall 26-14 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Seong’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger and the Rome Challenger.
The Korean has an aggregate 12-10 win-loss record in 2023, 2-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tallahassee Challenger
Chan Hong has never competed in this tournament before.
Rio Noguchi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-26 | 34-19 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 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 |
| 2020 | 14-12 | 5-6 | 0-3 | 3-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 204, Noguchi reached the 2nd round after beating Calvin Hemery 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Noguchi had a good straight sets win against Hemery (6-4 6-2). During the match Noguchi scored 70 points vs Hemery’s 54. Noguchi was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Noguchi couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Rio Noguchi lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Noguchi put 58% of his first serves in, winning 70% (21/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Hemery 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Noguchi has an aggregate 4-8 win-loss record in 2023, 1-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Chan Hong | Noguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 18 |
| Pts | 57-34 | 70-54 |
| Total Points | 91 | 124 |
| Winners | 24 | 21 |
| %Winners | 42% | 30% |
Both Chan Hong and Noguchi played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Chan Hong and Noguchi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Chan Hong played 2 games less than Noguchi. Chan Hong scored 24 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese blasted 21 winners (30%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Chan Hong | Noguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 0 |
| 1st in | 28/44 | 30/52 |
| %1st in | 64% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 21/30 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 14/22 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 64% |
Chan Hong struck 3 aces . Noguchi didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Chan Hong won 86% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Noguchi won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Chan Hong | Noguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/11 |
| % Converted | 50% | 36% |
| Conceded | 4 | 2 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Chan Hong broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Korean quite strong on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points. Noguchi broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Noguchi conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Chan Hong | |||
| R1 Harrison |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 57-34 | 57-34 | |
| Total points | 91 | 91 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 28/44 | 28/44 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 24/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 11/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Noguchi | |||
| R1 Hemery |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 70-54 | 70-54 | |
| Total points | 124 | 124 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/52 | 30/52 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 21/30 | 21/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 14/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Tallahassee Challenger
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Alex RybakovRybakov (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Kyle KangKang – Colin SinclairSinclair (3-6 7-66 6-4) – See score progression
- Moez EcharguiEchargui – Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez (6-1 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Patrick KypsonKypson – Ulises BlanchBlanch (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Nick ChappellChappell (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Zizou BergsBergs – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (5-7 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Martin DammDamm (5-7 7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- Lucas PouillePouille – Matteo MartineauMartineau (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (6-76 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Bruno KuzuharaKuzuhara (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Christian HarrisonHarrison (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Calvin HemeryHemery (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Nicolas KickerKicker (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Bruno KuzuharaKuzuhara (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Moez EcharguiEchargui – Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez (6-1 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Alex RybakovRybakov (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (6-7(6) 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Martin DammDamm (5-7 7-6(3) 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Lucas PouillePouille – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Dmitry PopkoPopko (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Kyrian JacquetJacquet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Patrick KypsonKypson – Zizou BergsBergs (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Moez EcharguiEchargui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
