Yunseong Chung and Rio Noguchi will square off in the qualifications of the Kobe Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:30 am on COURT C. 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 Rio Noguchi who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rio Noguchi is the pick to win this match.
Rio Noguchi -> 1.8
Yunseong Chung -> 1.93
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Prediction and head to head Yunseong Chung vs. Rio Noguchi
This will be the 2nd time that Yunseong Chung and Rio Noguchi square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Chung (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Chung won 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in the Nanchang Challenger back in 2019.
Yunseong Chung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-16 | 14-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-22 | 20-16 | 5-4 | 3-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-25 | 23-17 | 7-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-15 | 21-10 | 5-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 362, the Korean reached the qualifications after defeating Sanhui Shin 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Chung had a good straight sets win against Shin (6-3 6-3). During the match, Chung scored 65 points vs Shin’s 43. Yunseong was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Chung scored 3 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults. Yunseong Chung was very efficient on serve to win 94% (29/31) of his 1st serve and 53% (9/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Korean broke Shin 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Chung has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (254-188). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Chung has a composed 18-14 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Yunseong’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Seoul Challenger and M25 Anseong.
Yunseong has a compiled 27-19 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Rio Noguchi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-23 | 28-16 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-31 | 12-18 | 2-7 | 2-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-22 | 41-10 | 9-9 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-26 | 18-18 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-12 | 5-6 | 0-3 | 3-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 400, Rio reached the qualifications after beating Mathys Erhard 6-4 6-0.
In the qualifications, Noguchi had a good straight sets win against Erhard (6-4 6-0). During the match Noguchi scored 58 points vs Erhard’s 35. Noguchi was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Noguchi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Rio Noguchi was extremely efficient on serve to win 75% (24/32) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Rio broke Erhard 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
The Japanese has a compiled 18-27 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Chung | Noguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 16 |
| Pts | 65-43 | 58-35 |
| Total Points | 108 | 93 |
| Winners | 29 | 24 |
| %Winners | 45% | 41% |
Both Chung and Noguchi played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Chung and Noguchi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Chung played 2 games more than Noguchi. Chung scored 29 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese blasted 24 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Chung | Noguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
| 1st in | 31/48 | 32/51 |
| %1st in | 65% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 29/31 | 24/32 |
| %1st pts | 94% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 10/19 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 53% |
Chung scored 3 aces . Noguchi made 1 ace . Chung won 94% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Noguchi won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Chung | Noguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/7 | 5/6 |
| % Converted | 43% | 83% |
| Conceded | 0 | 6 |
| Saved | 0 | 5 |
| % Saved | 0% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Yunseong broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Korean extremely effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Noguchi broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Noguchi conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Chung | |||
| Q1 Shin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 65-43 | 65-43 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 31/48 | 31/48 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 29/31 | 29/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 94% | 94% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 9/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Noguchi | |||
| Q1 Erhard |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 58-35 | 58-35 | |
| Total points | 93 | 93 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 32/51 | 32/51 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 24/32 | 24/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 10/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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