Shintaro Mochizuki and Geoffrey Blancaneaux will play 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 COURT 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Shintaro Mochizuki who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Shintaro Mochizuki is the pick to win this match.
Shintaro Mochizuki -> 1.51
Geoffrey Blancaneaux -> 2.43
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Prediction and head to head Shintaro Mochizuki vs. Geoffrey Blancaneaux
There is no head to head record between Shintaro Mochizuki and Geoffrey Blancaneaux since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Shintaro Mochizuki
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-17 | 5-8 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 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), Shintaro reached the 2nd round after beating Naoki Nakagawa 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Mochizuki had a good straight sets win against Nakagawa (6-2 6-2). During the match, Mochizuki scored 67 points vs Nakagawa’s 52. Mochizuki was pretty aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Mochizuki managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Shintaro Mochizuki lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Mochizuki put 47% of his first serves in, winning 83% (19/23) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Nakagawa 5 times after converting 31% of his break points (5/16).
Mochizuki has a winning record in the last 6 years having won 55% of his matches (145-118). 22-15 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Mochizuki has a compiled77-62 match record in the last 6 years on hard.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Barletta Challenger where he overcame Santiago Rodriguez Taverna in the final 6-1 6-4.
Mochizuki has an aggregate 39-31 win-loss record in 2023, 22-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Geoffrey Blancaneaux
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-17 | 6-5 | 6-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-37 | 7-10 | 14-18 | 8-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-38 | 17-10 | 14-15 | 8-10 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-31 | 8-6 | 17-19 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 1-2 |
| 2020 | 23-17 | 11-3 | 5-9 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 264, Geoffrey got to the 2nd round after beating Sho Katayama 6-0 6-4.
In the 1st round, Blancaneaux had a good straight sets win against Katayama (6-0 6-4). During the match Blancaneaux scored 67 points vs Katayama’s 47. Blancaneaux was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Blancaneaux fired 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Geoffrey Blancaneaux lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Blancaneaux put 60% of his first serves in, winning 77% (24/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (8/21) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Katayama 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).
The French player best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Tunis Challenger.
Geoffrey has a compiled 24-33 win-loss record in 2023, 3-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mochizuki | Blancaneaux |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 |
| Pts | 67-52 | 67-47 |
| Total Points | 119 | 114 |
| Winners | 19 | 24 |
| %Winners | 28% | 36% |
Both Mochizuki and Blancaneaux played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mochizuki and Blancaneaux have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (16). Mochizuki scored 19 winners (28% of the total points). On the other side, Geoffrey made 24 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mochizuki | Blancaneaux |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 5 |
| 1st in | 23/49 | 31/52 |
| %1st in | 47% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 19/23 | 24/31 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 13/26 | 8/21 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 38% |
Mochizuki made 5 aces . Blancaneaux struck 5 aces . Mochizuki won 83% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Blancaneaux won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 38% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Mochizuki | Blancaneaux |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/16 | 6/14 |
| % Converted | 31% | 43% |
| Conceded | 5 | 4 |
| Saved | 4 | 2 |
| % Saved | 80% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The Japanese broke his opponent 5 times with a 31% conversion rate. Shintaro surrendered his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Blancaneaux broke his opponent 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. Geoffrey conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Mochizuki | |||
| R1 Nakagawa |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 67-52 | 67-52 | |
| Total points | 119 | 119 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 23/49 | 23/49 | |
| % 1st in | 47% | 47% | |
| 1st pts | 19/23 | 19/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/26 | 13/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/16 | 5/16 | |
| Converted % | 31% | 31% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Blancaneaux | |||
| R1 Katayama |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 67-47 | 67-47 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 31/52 | 31/52 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 24/31 | 24/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/21 | 8/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 38% | 38% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/14 | 6/14 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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