Liam Broady and Rio Noguchi will play each other in the 1st round of the Nottingham Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 3. 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 Liam Broady who should win in 2 sets.
Liam Broady -> 1.23
Rio Noguchi -> 3.84
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Prediction and head to head Liam Broady vs. Rio Noguchi
There is no head to head record between Liam Broady and Rio Noguchi since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Liam Broady
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61-21 | 30-10 | 10-4 | 20-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 10-18 | 8-13 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-28 | 23-9 | 2-4 | 15-9 | 5-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-25 | 16-9 | 2-5 | 10-5 | 8-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-26 | 19-10 | 7-5 | 16-7 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 151, Liam will start his run in the Nottingham Challenger after he played his last match in the Surbiton Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4
to Diallo in the 1st round on the 6th of June.Broady has an aggregate 21-11 win-loss record in 2023, 0-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Vilnius Challenger where he overcame Zdenek Kolar in the final 6-4 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Liam has an overall 442-323 record. He has a negative 28-52 record on grass.
Previously in the Nottingham Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2022. See his history.
Rio Noguchi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-30 | 36-30 | 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. 209, Rio got to the 1st round after defeating Giles Hussey 7-62 6-2 and Li Tu 7-5 6-4.
In the qualifications, Noguchi had a good straight sets win against Tu (7-5 6-4). During the match Noguchi scored 73 points vs Tu’s 63. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Noguchi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Rio Noguchi lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Noguchi put 71% of his first serves in, winning 67% (32/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Tu 3 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 55% of the points he played.
Rio has an overall 7-13 win-loss record in 2023, 2-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Nottingham Challenger
Noguchi has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Nottingham Challenger
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-4 1-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andy MurrayMurray – Joris De LooreDe Loore (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis KudlaKudla – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Jan ChoinskiChoinski (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Hyeon ChungChung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Jiri VeselyVesely (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Liam BroadyBroady (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – George LoffhagenLoffhagen (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (2-0) – H2H and prediction