Benjamin Hassan and Hiroki Moriya will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 16. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Benjamin Hassan who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Benjamin Hassan is the pick to win this match.
Benjamin Hassan -> 1.31
Hiroki Moriya -> 3.22
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Prediction and head to head Benjamin Hassan vs. Hiroki Moriya
This will be the 3rd time that Benjamin Hassan and Hiroki Moriya play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Hassan (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Hassan won 6-0 6-4 in the 1st round in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger back in January 2023.
Benjamin Hassan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-20 | 3-7 | 12-9 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 57-33 | 11-6 | 35-20 | 10-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-29 | 7-3 | 21-16 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 21-23 | 2-2 | 17-16 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 150 (career-high), the Lebanese will start his run in the Matsuyama Challenger after he played his last match in Basel where he lost 7-6(2) 6-2 to Stricker in the 1st round on the 24th of October.
Hassan has a composed 54-31 win-loss record in 2023, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Lebanese’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Grodzisk Mazowiecki Challenger and the Lisbon Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Lebanese has an overall 238-153 record. He has a positive 42-23 record on hard.
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
The Lebanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Hiroki Moriya
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-18 | 19-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-28 | 31-27 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-30 | 18-19 | 0-0 | 7-9 | 1-1 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 22-28 | 13-17 | 0-0 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2020 | 7-15 | 5-5 | 1-2 | 0-7 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 428, Moriya reached the 1st round after beating Gen Nakamura 6-2 6-4 and Yan Bai 1-6 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications against Bai, Hiroki recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-3 6-1). During the match Moriya scored 78 points vs Bai’s 68. Hiroki was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Moriya was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Hiroki Moriya lost the serve 4 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Moriya put 64% of his first serves in, winning 54% (25/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 62% (16/26) on the 2nd serve. Hiroki broke Bai 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Hiroki’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Jakarta and M25 Nakhon Si Thammarat.
The Japanese has a compiled 28-24 win-loss record in 2023, 28-24 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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