Thanasi Kokkinakis and Yusuke Takahashi will play each other in the 1st round of the Playford Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Thanasi Kokkinakis who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Thanasi Kokkinakis is the pick to win this match.
Thanasi Kokkinakis -> 1.067
Yusuke Takahashi -> 7.4
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Prediction and head to head Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Yusuke Takahashi
There is no head to head record between Thanasi Kokkinakis and Yusuke Takahashi since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Thanasi Kokkinakis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-15 | 8-9 | 11-6 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-26 | 31-18 | 8-5 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-19 | 19-12 | 2-3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-21 | 15-11 | 18-7 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 68 (career-high), the Australian will start his run in the Playford Challenger after he played his last match in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Zhukayev in the 2nd round on the 12th of October.
Kokkinakis has a composed 36-24 win-loss record in 2023, 27-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Manama Challenger where he overcame Abedallah Shelbayh in the final 6-1 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Thanasi has an overall 235-147 record. He has a positive 162-90 record on hard.
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Thanasi has never competed in this tournament before.
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-13 | 13-12 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 33-28 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-22 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-23 | 18-21 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 466, the Japanese got to the 1st round after beating Shohei Chikami 6-75 6-3 6-2 and Ryan Seggerman 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Yusuke had a good straight sets win against Seggerman (6-3 6-2). During the match Takahashi scored 67 points vs Seggerman’s 41. Takahashi was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Takahashi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yusuke Takahashi was very effective on serve to win 76% (34/45) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Yusuke broke Seggerman 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Takahashi started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Yusuke’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 New Delhi and M25 Astana.
Takahashi has a composed 32-24 win-loss record in 2023, 29-22 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
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