Seong Chan Hong and Tatsuma Ito will play each other in the 1st round of the Seoul Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 6:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis 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 -> 1.2
Tatsuma Ito -> 4.2
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Prediction and head to head Seong Chan Hong vs. Tatsuma Ito
This will be the 4th time that Seong Chan Hong and Tatsuma Ito square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Ito (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Ito won 7-5 6-1 in the 2nd round in the Seoul Challenger back in 2018.
Seong Chan Hong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-12 | 21-10 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-34 | 17-18 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-18 | 36-12 | 4-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-8 | 7-3 | 10-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 194 (career-high), Seong will start his run in the Seoul Challenger after he played his last match in the Tallahassee Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-1 to Bergs in the semifinal on the 22nd of April.
Chan Hong has a compiled 14-11 win-loss record in 2023, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Chan Hong’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger,the Rome Challenger and the Tallahassee Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Chan Hong has an overall 204-106 record. He has a positive 172-78 record on hard.
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018. See his history.
Tatsuma Ito
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-18 | 14-14 | 10-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-8 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-23 | 6-12 | 1-3 | 2-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-6 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 578, the Japanese reached the 1st round after beating Dominik Palan 6-4 6-2 and Omar Jasika 1-6 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications against Jasika, Ito recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-2 6-2). During the match Ito scored 71 points vs Jasika’s 63. Ito was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Ito struck 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Tatsuma Ito lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Ito put 68% of his first serves in, winning 69% (31/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. Tatsuma broke Jasika 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese 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.
Tatsuma’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Canberra.
The Japanese has a composed 10-4 win-loss record in 2023, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LL Tennis Scores in Seoul Challenger
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- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-3 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Max PurcellPurcell – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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