Jurij Rodionov and Yasutaka Uchiyama will square off in the 1st round of the Kobe Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on CENTRAL 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 Jurij Rodionov who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jurij Rodionov is the pick to win this match.
Jurij Rodionov -> 1.35
Yasutaka Uchiyama -> 3
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Prediction and head to head Jurij Rodionov vs. Yasutaka Uchiyama
There is no head to head record between Jurij Rodionov and Yasutaka Uchiyama since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Jurij Rodionov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-14 | 1-4 | 4-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-33 | 3-6 | 15-13 | 21-11 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 45-31 | 5-5 | 16-11 | 21-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-28 | 2-4 | 2-7 | 13-13 | 3-3 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 25-16 | 5-1 | 7-6 | 12-8 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 107, Jurij will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in Sofia where he lost 3-6 6-4 6-1 to Fucsovics in the 2nd round on the 8th of November.
Jurij has a compiled 42-30 win-loss record in 2023, 19-10 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Biel Challenger where he beat Liam Broady in the final 6-3 ret..
Talking about his overall career, The Austrian has an overall 244-178 record. He has a positive 87-53 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Rodionov has never competed in this tournament before.
Yasutaka Uchiyama
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-10 | 13-7 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 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. 301, Uchiyama got to the 1st round after beating Rei Sakamoto 6-1 6-2 and Blake Ellis 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, Uchiyama had a good straight sets win against Ellis (6-4 7-5). During the match Uchiyama scored 72 points vs Ellis’s 61. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Uchiyama scored 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Yasutaka Uchiyama was very efficient on serve to win 75% (33/44) of his 1st serve and 56% (15/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Yasutaka broke Ellis 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 58% of the points he played.
Uchiyama’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Seoul Challenger.
Uchiyama has an aggregate 24-23 win-loss record in 2023, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2018. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Marc PolmansPolmans – Andrew FentyFenty (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jason JungJung – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Menelaos EfstathiouEfstathiou (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Benjamin HassanHassan – James McCabeMcCabe (0-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Giovanni FonioFonio (4-6 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-1 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Omar JasikaJasika (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Dane SweenySweeny (6-3 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Tatsuma ItoIto – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yan BaiBai – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Renta TokudaTokuda – Yunseong ChungChung (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin HassanHassan – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Taisei IchikawaIchikawa – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
