Mark Lajal and Yasutaka Uchiyama will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Chicago Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mark Lajal who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mark Lajal is the pick to win this match.
Mark Lajal -> 1.81
Yasutaka Uchiyama -> 1.92
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Prediction and head to head Mark Lajal vs. Yasutaka Uchiyama
There is no head to head record between Mark Lajal and Yasutaka Uchiyama since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Mark Lajal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-24 | 18-14 | 0-3 | 6-4 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 25-16 | 5-2 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-24 | 35-12 | 2-6 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-7 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 244, Mark reached the 2nd round after defeating Omar Jasika 6-1 6-4.
In the 1st round, Mark had a good straight sets win against Jasika (6-1 6-4). During the match, Lajal scored 65 points vs Jasika’s 44. The Estonian was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Lajal recorded 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Mark Lajal was quite efficient on serve to win 86% (24/28) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Mark broke Jasika 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Lajal has a solid match record in the last 3 years having won 65% of his matches (81-44). 16-6 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Lajal has a compiled56-22 win-loss record in the last 3 years on hard.
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Little Rock Challenger where he beat Beibit Zhukayev in the final 6-4 7-5.
Lajal has an overall 30-13 win-loss record in 2023, 16-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Chicago Challenger
Lajal has never competed in this tournament before.
Yasutaka Uchiyama
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-18 | 25-14 | 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, Yasutaka reached the 2nd round after beating Emilio Gomez 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, Yasutaka had a good straight sets win against Gomez (6-2 6-1). During the match Uchiyama scored 60 points vs Gomez’s 35. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Uchiyama managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yasutaka Uchiyama was pretty effective on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Gomez 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
The Japanese’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Seoul Challenger.
Uchiyama has an aggregate 17-13 win-loss record in 2023, 17-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Lajal | Uchiyama |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 15 |
| Pts | 65-44 | 60-35 |
| Total Points | 109 | 95 |
| Winners | 24 | 21 |
| %Winners | 37% | 35% |
Both Lajal and Uchiyama played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Lajal and Uchiyama have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Lajal played 2 games more than Uchiyama. The Estonian scored 24 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese bagged 21 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Lajal | Uchiyama |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 6 |
| 1st in | 28/46 | 26/38 |
| %1st in | 61% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 21/26 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 8/12 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 67% |
Lajal bagged 5 aces . Uchiyama struck 6 aces . Lajal won 86% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Uchiyama won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Lajal | Uchiyama |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/11 | 5/8 |
| % Converted | 36% | 63% |
| Conceded | 2 | 0 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 50% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Mark broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Estonian dropped his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Uchiyama broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Yasutaka was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Lajal | |||
| R1 Jasika |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 65-44 | 65-44 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 28/46 | 28/46 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 24/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| 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 | |
| Uchiyama | |||
| R1 Gomez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 60-35 | 60-35 | |
| Total points | 95 | 95 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 26/38 | 26/38 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 21/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/12 | 8/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLWWWWLWWW Tennis Scores in Chicago Challenger
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Yunseong ChungChung – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Steve JohnsonJohnson (6-3 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (7-63 6-1) – See score progression
- Juncheng ShangShang – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-65 3-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Ethan QuinnQuinn – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (7-66 0-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Li TuTu (7-63 6-75 7-65) – See score progression
- Mark LajalLajal – Omar JasikaJasika (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Evan ZhuZhu (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Dane SweenySweeny (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (6-4 7-62) – See score progression
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Emilio GomezGomez (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Adam WaltonWalton – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (7-6(3) 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jason JungJung – Bernard TomicTomic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Skander MansouriMansouri – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Yunseong ChungChung (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
