Ben Shelton and Taro Daniel will fight against 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 4:00 pm on COLOSSEUM. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ben Shelton who should win in 2 sets.
Ben Shelton -> 1.26
Taro Daniel -> 3.86
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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. Taro Daniel
This will be the 2nd time that Ben Shelton and Taro Daniel fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Shelton (see full H2H stats
), but they have never competed against each other on hard.The last time that they locked horns, Shelton won 6-4 6-3 3-6 4-6 6-3 in the 1st round in at the Wimbledon back in July 2023.
Ben Shelton
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-14 | 9-6 | 8-4 | 2-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-26 | 21-13 | 4-8 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-11 | 16-9 | 0-0 | 24-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-7 | 7-3 | 5-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 19 (career-high), Ben will start his run in Tokyo after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 6-7(10) 6-2 7-6(6) to Korda in the quarter on the 12th of October.
Shelton has an overall 23-24 win-loss record in 2023, 16-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Cagliari Challenger and at the U.S. Open .
Talking about his overall career, Ben has an overall 81-42 record. He has a positive 39-25 record on hard.
Previously in Tokyo
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Taro Daniel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-19 | 7-8 | 5-8 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-30 | 34-16 | 7-10 | 2-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-29 | 27-17 | 12-7 | 2-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-25 | 5-7 | 21-15 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-15 | 9-9 | 3-5 | 6-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 97, the Japanese got to the 1st round after beating Jason Jung 6-71 6-3 6-3 and Rio Noguchi 7-5 6-4.
In the qualifications, Taro had a good straight sets win against Noguchi (7-5 6-4). During the match Daniel scored 68 points vs Noguchi’s 58. Taro was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Daniel fired 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Taro Daniel lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Daniel put 58% of his first serves in, winning 67% (26/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. Daniel broke Noguchi 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Daniel started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
The Japanese has an aggregate 33-27 win-loss record in 2023, 22-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2019. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-63 6-72 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-72 7-65 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Max PurcellPurcell (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Alexander ZverevZverev (6-3 6-4) – 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