Shintaro Mochizuki and Naoki Nakagawa will fight 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 5:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. 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 Shintaro Mochizuki who should win in 3 sets.
Shintaro Mochizuki -> 1.52
Naoki Nakagawa -> 2.41
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Prediction and head to head Shintaro Mochizuki vs. Naoki Nakagawa
This will be the 3rd time that Shintaro Mochizuki and Naoki Nakagawa play each other. The head to head is 2-0
for Nakagawa (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.The last time that they competed against each other, Nakagawa won 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in the Kobe Challenger back in 2022.
Shintaro Mochizuki
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-31 | 17-20 | 7-5 | 0-1 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-33 | 22-16 | 13-8 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-34 | 18-17 | 13-12 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-30 | 11-10 | 18-11 | 5-7 | 1-1 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 20-14 | 14-12 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 129 (career-high), Mochizuki will start his run in the Matsuyama Challenger after he played his last match in the Sydney Challenger where he lost 3-1 ret. to Daniel in the quarter on the 3rd of November.
Shintaro has an overall 38-31 win-loss record in 2023, 21-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Barletta Challenger where he beat Santiago Rodriguez Taverna in the final 6-1 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 144-118 record. He has a positive 76-62 record on hard.
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See his history.
Naoki Nakagawa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-15 | 12-11 | 1-1 | 11-3 | 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 1st round after defeating Yuto Oki 6-4 6-2 and Yusuke Takahashi 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Nakagawa had a good straight sets win against Takahashi (6-3 6-2). During the match Nakagawa scored 60 points vs Takahashi’s 36. Nakagawa was very aggressive to blast 17 winners.
About the serving games, Nakagawa fired 11 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Naoki Nakagawa was extremely effective on serve to win 77% (17/22) of his 1st serve and 72% (18/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Takahashi 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Naoki started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 61% of the points he played.
Naoki’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Quinta Do Lago,M25 Decatur,M25 Sapporo and M25 Takasaki.
Nakagawa has a compiled 41-19 win-loss record in 2023, 40-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Matsuyama Challenger
- James McCabeMcCabe – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Zhe LiLi – Dane SweenySweeny (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho KatayamaKatayama – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jason JungJung – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin HassanHassan – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Moez EcharguiEchargui – Arthur WeberWeber (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Giovanni FonioFonio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- August HolmgrenHolmgren – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Menelaos EfstathiouEfstathiou (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Blake EllisEllis (0-0) – H2H and prediction