Iga Swiatek and Mai Hontama will face off in the 2nd round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:00 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 Iga Swiatek who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Iga Swiatek is the pick to win this match.
Iga Swiatek -> 1.007
Mai Hontama -> 16.75
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Prediction and head to head Iga Swiatek vs. Mai Hontama
There is no head to head record between Iga Swiatek and Mai Hontama since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Iga Swiatek
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 59-8 | 29-5 | 26-2 | 2-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 68-11 | 42-8 | 19-2 | 0-0 | 7-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 67-9 | 42-6 | 18-1 | 5-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-15 | 18-10 | 12-2 | 2-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-5 | 6-4 | 7-1 | 3-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 2, Swiatek will start her run in Tokyo after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 3-6 6-3 6-1 to Ostapenko in the 4th round on the 3rd of September.
Iga has a composed 56-10 win-loss record in 2023, 30-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Doha where she overcame Jessica Pegula in the final 6-3 6-0 and in Stuttgart where she defeated Aryna Sabalenka in the final 6-3 6-4 and at the French Open where she beat Karolina Muchova in the final 6-2 5-7 6-4 and in Warsaw where she beat Laura Siegemund in the final 6-0 6-1.
Talking about her overall career, Swiatek has an overall 273-66 record. She has a positive 121-36 record on hard.
Previously in Tokyo
The Pole has never competed in this tournament before.
Mai Hontama
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-30 | 24-23 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-28 | 38-18 | 6-5 | 9-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-25 | 25-15 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-15 | 32-12 | 8-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 148, Mai reached the 2nd round after defeating Saki Imamura 6-3 6-3, Sara Saito 6-2 6-2 and Nao Hibino 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Mai had a good straight sets win against Hibino (6-2 6-4). During the match Hontama scored 58 points vs Hibino’s 37. Mai was very aggressive to blast 19 winners.
About the serving games, Hontama scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Mai Hontama lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Hontama put 66% of her first serves in, winning 66% (19/29) of the points behind her 1st serve and 73% (11/15) on the 2nd serve. Hontama broke Hibino 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
Her best result of the season was winning the title the W40 Maribor where she beat Clara Tauson in the final 6-4 3-6 6-4.
Mai has an aggregate 42-20 win-loss record in 2023, 29-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (6-77 6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Himeno SakatsumeSakatsume (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Donna VekicVekic (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Harriet DartDart (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Misaki DoiDoi – Petra MarticMartic (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Marta KostyukKostyuk (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Despina PapamichailPapamichail – Sakura HosogiHosogi (7-63 7-5) – See score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Kayla DayDay – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Rina SaigoSaigo (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Mai HontamaHontama – Nao HibinoHibino (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Veronika Kudermetova/Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaKudermetova/Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova – Giuliana Olmos/Luisa StefaniOlmos/Luisa Stefani (7-5 6-73 10-8) – See score progression
- Misaki DoiDoi – Petra MarticMartic (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Mai HontamaHontama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kayla DayDay – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Misaki DoiDoi – Maria SakkariSakkari (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Despina PapamichailPapamichail (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-1) – H2H and prediction
