Steve Johnson and Yasutaka Uchiyama will face off in the quarter of the Bloomfield Hills Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Steve Johnson who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Steve Johnson is the pick to win this match.
Steve Johnson -> 1.80
Yasutaka Uchiyama -> 1.90
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Prediction and head to head Steve Johnson vs. Yasutaka Uchiyama
This will be the 3rd time that Steve Johnson and Yasutaka Uchiyama square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Johnson and Uchiyama (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Johnson won 7-6(4) 6-3 in the 2nd round in Los cabos back in 2021.
Highlights Steve Johnson vs Yasutaka Uchiyama – Los cabos 21-July-2021
Steve Johnson
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-20 | 15-11 | 2-3 | 2-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-28 | 20-18 | 6-4 | 2-2 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-17 | 8-12 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-11 | 18-7 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 219, the American reached the quarter after defeating Aidan Mchugh 7-67 6-4 and James McCabe 6-4 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Johnson had a good straight sets win against McCabe (6-4 6-2). During the match, Johnson scored 59 points vs McCabe’s 38. Steve was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Johnson blasted 3 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Steve Johnson was very effective on serve to win 92% (22/24) of his 1st serve and 78% (14/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Steve broke McCabe 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Johnson hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 55% of the points he played.
Johnson has winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (268-225). 3-6 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Johnson has a compiled 162-129 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
The American has an aggregate 7-13 win-loss record in 2023, 3-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bloomfield Hills Challenger
Johnson has never competed in this tournament before.
Yasutaka Uchiyama
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-11 | 13-7 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-24 | 27-22 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-21 | 16-13 | 0-0 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-26 | 9-13 | 0-3 | 1-6 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-13 | 4-5 | 0-2 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 267, the Japanese got to the quarter after beating Li Tu 6-1 6-3 and Emilio Gomez 6-2 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Uchiyama had a good straight sets win against Gomez (6-2 6-4). During the match Uchiyama scored 61 points vs Gomez’s 42. Yasutaka was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Uchiyama fired 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yasutaka Uchiyama was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 91% (20/22) of his 1st serve and 73% (16/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Uchiyama broke Gomez 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Uchiyama hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 60% of the points he played.
Uchiyama’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Seoul Challenger.
Yasutaka has an overall 16-12 win-loss record in 2023, 16-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Johnson | Uchiyama |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 41 | 34 |
| Pts | 133-111 | 117-79 |
| Total Points | 244 | 196 |
| Winners | 58 | 44 |
| %Winners | 44% | 38% |
Both Johnson and Uchiyama played 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Johnson and Uchiyama have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Johnson played 7 games more than Uchiyama. Johnson scored 58 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Uchiyama recorded 44 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Johnson | Uchiyama |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 4.5 | 5 |
| 1st in | 75/121 | 50/88 |
| %1st in | 62% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 58/75 | 44/50 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 88% |
| 2nd pts | 30/46 | 24/38 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 63% |
Johnson made 9 aces (4.5 per match). Uchiyama scored 10 aces (5 per match). Johnson won 77% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Uchiyama won 88% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Johnson | Uchiyama |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 7 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 7/12 |
| % Converted | 56% | 58% |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 |
| Saved | 2 | 0 |
| % Saved | 67% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The American broke his opponents 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Steve surrendered his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponents 7 times with a 58% conversion rate. Uchiyama was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Johnson | ||||
| R1 Mchugh |
R2 McCabe |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-67 6-4 | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 18 | 41 | |
| pts | 74-73 | 59-38 | 133-111 | |
| Total points | 147 | 97 | 244 | |
| Winners | 36 | 22 | 58 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 37% | 44% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 3 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 51/79 | 24/42 | 75/121 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 57% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 36/51 | 22/24 | 58/75 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 92% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/28 | 14/18 | 30/46 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 78% | 65% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Converted | 2/2 | 3/7 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 43% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 0/0 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | – | 34% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Uchiyama | ||||
| R1 Tu |
R2 Gomez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 18 | 34 | |
| pts | 56-37 | 61-42 | 117-79 | |
| Total points | 93 | 103 | 196 | |
| Winners | 24 | 20 | 44 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 33% | 38% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 28/44 | 22/44 | 50/88 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 50% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 20/22 | 44/50 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 91% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/16 | 16/22 | 24/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 73% | 63% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 3/6 | 7/12 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 50% | 58% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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