Yasutaka Uchiyama and Blake Ellis will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Kobe Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:00 pm on CENTRAL COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yasutaka Uchiyama who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yasutaka Uchiyama is the pick to win this match.
Yasutaka Uchiyama -> 1.28
Blake Ellis -> 3.42
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Prediction and head to head Yasutaka Uchiyama vs. Blake Ellis
This will be the 2nd time that Yasutaka Uchiyama and Blake Ellis face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Ellis (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Ellis won 7-6(9) 6-3 in the 1st round in the Canberra Challenger back in 2018.
Yasutaka Uchiyama
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-25 | 26-18 | 1-1 | 6-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-24 | 27-22 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-21 | 16-13 | 0-0 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-26 | 9-13 | 0-3 | 1-6 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-13 | 4-5 | 0-2 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 309, Uchiyama reached the qualifications after beating Rei Sakamoto 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications, Uchiyama had a good straight sets win against Sakamoto (6-1 6-2). During the match, Uchiyama scored 63 points vs Sakamoto’s 36. The Japanese was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Uchiyama fired 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Yasutaka Uchiyama conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Uchiyama put 78% of his first serves in, winning 83% (29/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (4/10) on the 2nd serve. Yasutaka broke Sakamoto 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Uchiyama has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (278-239). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Uchiyama has an aggregate 29-39 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Uchiyama’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Seoul Challenger.
Yasutaka has a compiled 23-23 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Blake Ellis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 49-30 | 41-26 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-29 | 43-25 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-11 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-14 | 16-8 | 0-0 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 11-6 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 415, Blake got to the qualifications after beating Naoki Nakagawa 6-2 6-76 7-64.
In the qualifications, The Australian defeated Nakagawa (6-2 6-76 7-64). During the match Ellis scored 114 points vs Nakagawa’s 98. Blake was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Ellis blasted 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Blake Ellis was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 75% (39/52) of his 1st serve and 56% (29/52) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Blake broke Nakagawa 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
The Australian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Mysuru and M25 Darwin.
Blake has a composed 47-27 win-loss record in 2023, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2018. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Uchiyama | Ellis |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 34 |
| Pts | 63-36 | 114-98 |
| Total Points | 99 | 212 |
| Winners | 29 | 39 |
| %Winners | 46% | 34% |
Both Uchiyama and Ellis played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Blake Ellis dropped 1 set while Yasutaka Uchiyama hasn’t conceded a set so far. Uchiyama has played 1 set(s) less than Ellis (2 vs 3). Therefore, Uchiyama played 19 games less than Ellis. Uchiyama scored 29 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Blake scored 39 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Uchiyama | Ellis |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 6 |
| 1st in | 35/45 | 52/104 |
| %1st in | 78% | 50% |
| 1st pts | 29/35 | 39/52 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 4/10 | 29/52 |
| %2nd pts | 40% | 56% |
Uchiyama blasted 5 aces . Ellis blasted 6 aces . Uchiyama won 83% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Ellis won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Uchiyama | Ellis |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 50% | 50% |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 25% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
Yasutaka broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Japanese pretty solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. Blake broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded.
| Uchiyama | |||
| Q1 Sakamoto |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 63-36 | 63-36 | |
| Total points | 99 | 99 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 35/45 | 35/45 | |
| % 1st in | 78% | 78% | |
| 1st pts | 29/35 | 29/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 40% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Ellis | |||
| Q1 Nakagawa |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-76 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 34 | 34 | |
| pts | 114-98 | 114-98 | |
| Total points | 212 | 212 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 52/104 | 52/104 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 39/52 | 39/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 29/52 | 29/52 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 1/4 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 25% | 25% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
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