Taro Daniel and Moez Echargui will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 10:00 am on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taro Daniel who should win in 2 sets.
Taro Daniel -> 1.21
Moez Echargui -> 4.05
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Prediction and head to head Taro Daniel vs. Moez Echargui
There is no head to head record between Taro Daniel and Moez Echargui since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Taro Daniel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-33 | 16-16 | 5-11 | 9-3 | 1-3 | 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. 86, the Japanese got to the 2nd round after beating Shunsuke Nakagawa 6-1 6-2.
In the 1st round, Taro had a good straight sets win against Nakagawa (6-1 6-2). During the match, Daniel scored 63 points vs Nakagawa’s 41. Taro was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Daniel recorded 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Taro Daniel was very efficient on serve to win 81% (22/27) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Nakagawa 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Daniel has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (371-280). 31-15 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Daniel has an overall 150-111 record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Sydney Challenger where he defeated Marc Polmans in the final 6-2 6-4.
The Japanese has a compiled 42-29 win-loss record in 2023, 31-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Moez Echargui
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-25 | 9-10 | 12-14 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-34 | 23-10 | 23-22 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-29 | 7-2 | 37-26 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-24 | 38-17 | 4-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-14 | 20-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 275, Echargui got to the 2nd round after defeating Arthur Weber 6-0 6-3.
In the 1st round, Echargui had a good straight sets win against Weber (6-0 6-3). During the match Echargui scored 59 points vs Weber’s 37. Moez was quite aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Talking about serving, Echargui bagged 4 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Moez Echargui was exceptionally effective on serve to win 73% (16/22) of his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Moez broke Weber 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Moez’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir and M25 Monastir.
Echargui has an aggregate 45-30 win-loss record in 2023, 22-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Daniel | Echargui |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 |
| Pts | 63-41 | 59-37 |
| Total Points | 104 | 96 |
| Winners | 22 | 16 |
| %Winners | 35% | 27% |
Both Daniel and Echargui played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Daniel and Echargui have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (15). Daniel scored 22 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Echargui recorded 16 winners (27%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Daniel | Echargui |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 4 |
| 1st in | 27/51 | 22/40 |
| %1st in | 53% | 55% |
| 1st pts | 22/27 | 16/22 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 14/24 | 13/18 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 72% |
Daniel made 2 aces . Echargui managed to score 4 aces . Daniel won 81% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Echargui won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 72% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Daniel | Echargui |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/11 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 36% | 50% |
| Conceded | 3 | 1 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Daniel broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Taro had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. Moez broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Echargui was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Daniel | |||
| R1 Nakagawa | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 63-41 | 63-41 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 27/51 | 27/51 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 22/27 | 22/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/24 | 14/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Echargui | |||
| R1 Weber | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 59-37 | 59-37 | |
| Total points | 96 | 96 | |
| Winners | 16 | 16 | |
| %Winners | 27% | 27% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 22/40 | 22/40 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 16/22 | 16/22 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/18 | 13/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 72% | 72% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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