Alex De Minaur and Jack Draper will play each other in the 1st round of the Rakuten Japan Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COLOSSEUM. 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 Alex De Minaur who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alex De Minaur is the pick to win this match.
Alex De Minaur -> 1.77
Jack Draper -> 2.05
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Prediction and head to head Alex De Minaur vs. Jack Draper
This will be the 2nd time that Alex De Minaur and Jack Draper face off. The head to head is 1-0 for De Minaur (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, De Minaur won 5-7 7-6(0) 6-2 6-3 in the 2nd round in at the Wimbledon back in 2022.
Alex De Minaur
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-12 | 15-5 | 10-5 | 4-1 | 7-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-26 | 26-12 | 4-5 | 10-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-25 | 19-10 | 9-6 | 12-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-25 | 10-10 | 4-5 | 3-7 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 13-10 | 6-5 | 0-2 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 13, Alex will start his run in Tokyo after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 6-3 7-5 to Marozsan in the 2nd round on the 6th of October.
The Australian has an aggregate 39-22 win-loss record in 2023, 24-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title in Acapulco where he defeated Tommy Paul in the final 3-6 6-4 6-1.
Talking about his overall career, Alex has an overall 311-183 record. He has a positive 150-79 record on hard.
Previously in Tokyo
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018. See his history.
Jack Draper
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-14 | 9-6 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-15 | 15-8 | 3-3 | 16-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-19 | 12-6 | 2-2 | 26-7 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-16 | 6-6 | 7-5 | 3-2 | 2-2 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 17-6 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 14-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 88, Draper reached the 1st round after beating Yuta Shimizu 6-4 6-4 and Jurij Rodionov 6-1 6-0.
In the qualifications, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Rodionov (6-1 6-0). During the match Draper scored 55 points vs Rodionov’s 23. Draper was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about serving, Draper fired 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Jack Draper conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 51% of his first serves in, win 89% (17/19) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. Draper broke Rodionov 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Draper started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 61% of the points he played.
Draper’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Orleans Challenger.
Draper has an overall 25-12 win-loss record in 2023, 15-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
The Brit has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-72 7-65 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Marcos GironGiron (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Cameron NorrieNorrie (6-6) – H2H and prediction
- Tommy PaulPaul – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Casper RuudRuud (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Jack DraperDraper (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Christian GarinGarin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Sebastian OfnerOfner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (0-3) – H2H and prediction
