Naoki Nakagawa and Yusuke Takahashi will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 am on Court 6. 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 Naoki Nakagawa who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Naoki Nakagawa is the pick to win this match.
Naoki Nakagawa -> 1.52
Yusuke Takahashi -> 2.41
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Prediction and head to head Naoki Nakagawa vs. Yusuke Takahashi
This will be the 4th time that Naoki Nakagawa and Yusuke Takahashi play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Nakagawa (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Nakagawa won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in M25 Champaign back in 2021.
Naoki Nakagawa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-23 | 42-19 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-27 | 16-16 | 10-9 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-15 | 32-13 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-4 | 14-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 350, the Japanese reached the qualifications after beating Yuto Oki 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Oki (6-4 6-2). During the match, Nakagawa scored 55 points vs Oki’s 39. The Japanese was pretty aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about the service games, Nakagawa recorded 12 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Naoki Nakagawa was extremely efficient on serve to win 82% (18/22) of his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Oki 4 times.
Nakagawa has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (274-179). 39-16 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Nakagawa has a compiled 165-104 record in the last years on hard.
The Japanese’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Quinta Do Lago,M25 Decatur,M25 Sapporo and M25 Takasaki.
Naoki has a composed 40-19 win-loss record in 2023, 39-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-13 | 13-12 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 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. 463, Yusuke reached the qualifications after defeating Yusuke Kusuhara 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Takahashi had a good straight sets win against Kusuhara (6-2 6-2). During the match Takahashi scored 57 points vs Kusuhara’s 31. Takahashi was quite aggressive to blast 13 winners.
About the serving games, Takahashi bagged 9 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yusuke Takahashi was quite efficient on serve to win 76% (13/17) of his 1st serve and 76% (19/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Yusuke was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Kusuhara 4 times.
Yusuke’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 New Delhi and M25 Astana.
Yusuke has an overall 34-27 win-loss record in 2023, 31-25 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nakagawa | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 16 |
| Pts | 55-39 | 57-31 |
| Total Points | 94 | 88 |
| Winners | 18 | 13 |
| %Winners | 33% | 23% |
Both Nakagawa and Takahashi played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Nakagawa and Takahashi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Nakagawa played 2 games more than Takahashi. Nakagawa scored 18 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Yusuke struck 13 winners (23%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nakagawa | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 12 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 12 | 9 |
| 1st in | 22/46 | 17/42 |
| %1st in | 48% | 40% |
| 1st pts | 18/22 | 13/17 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 19/25 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 76% |
Nakagawa blasted 12 aces . Takahashi blasted 9 aces . Nakagawa won 82% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Takahashi won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 76% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nakagawa | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 |
| % Converted | 100% | 100% |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Naoki dropped his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Yusuke was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Nakagawa | |||
| Q1 Oki |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 55-39 | 55-39 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 12 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 22/46 | 22/46 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 18/22 | 18/22 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 15/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Takahashi | |||
| Q1 Kusuhara |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 57-31 | 57-31 | |
| Total points | 88 | 88 | |
| Winners | 13 | 13 | |
| %Winners | 23% | 23% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 17/42 | 17/42 | |
| % 1st in | 40% | 40% | |
| 1st pts | 13/17 | 13/17 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/25 | 19/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 76% | 76% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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