Kalin Ivanovski and Yan Bai will face off in the qualifications of the Yokohama Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yan Bai who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yan Bai is the pick to win this match.
Yan Bai -> 1.68
Kalin Ivanovski -> 2.09
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Prediction and head to head Kalin Ivanovski vs. Yan Bai
This will be the 2nd time that Kalin Ivanovski and Yan Bai face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Bai (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Bai won 6-1 4-0 ret. in the 1st round in the Kobe Challenger back in November 2023.
Kalin Ivanovski
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-30 | 19-11 | 19-12 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-21 | 23-12 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-9 | 0-1 | 1-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-4 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 330, the Malawian reached the qualifications after defeating Shinji Hazawa 3-6 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications against Hazawa, Kalin recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-4 7-5).During the match, Ivanovski scored less points (4) than Hazawa. In fact, the world no. 330 won 95 points vs Hazawa’s. That means that Ivanovski was more focused during the important points. Kalin was quite aggressive to blast 44 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ivanovski wasn’t able to score even 1 ace and he committed only 2 double faults. Kalin Ivanovski lost the serve 4 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Ivanovski put 66% of his first serves in, winning 65% (44/68) of the points behind his 1st serve and 51% (18/35) on the 2nd serve. Ivanovski broke Hazawa 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Ivanovski has a winning match record in the last 5 years having won 56% of his matches (82-64). 17-9 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Ivanovski has a composed42-25 match record in the last 5 years on hard.
The Malawian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Monastir,M25 Kursumlijska Banja,M25 Skopje and M25 Kramsach.
Ivanovski has a compiled 48-28 win-loss record in 2023, 17-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokohama Challenger
Kalin has never competed in this tournament before.
Yan Bai
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 52-21 | 47-19 | 4-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-16 | 42-13 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 6-4 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 393, Bai reached the qualifications after defeating Kai Wehnelt 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Wehnelt (6-4 6-4). During the match Bai scored 67 points vs Wehnelt’s 55. Yan was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Bai scored 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yan Bai was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 83% (30/36) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Bai broke Wehnelt twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Yan’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Tianjin and M25 Guiyang.
Yan has a composed 46-15 win-loss record in 2023, 42-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ivanovski | Bai |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 31 | 20 |
| Pts | 95-99 | 67-55 |
| Total Points | 194 | 122 |
| Winners | 44 | 30 |
| %Winners | 46% | 45% |
Both Ivanovski and Bai played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Kalin Ivanovski surrendered 1 set while Yan Bai hasn’t dropped a set so far. Ivanovski has played 1 set more than Bai (3 vs 2). Therefore, Ivanovski played 11 games more than Bai. The Malawian scored 44 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Chinese made 30 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ivanovski | Bai |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 2 |
| 1st in | 68/103 | 36/55 |
| %1st in | 66% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 44/68 | 30/36 |
| %1st pts | 65% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 18/35 | 12/19 |
| %2nd pts | 51% | 63% |
Ivanovski didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Bai recorded 2 aces . Ivanovski won 65% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Bai won 83% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ivanovski | Bai |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 2 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 2/6 |
| % Converted | 50% | 33% |
| Conceded | 7 | 0 |
| Saved | 3 | 0 |
| % Saved | 43% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 0 |
Kalin broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Malawian surrendered his serve 4 times and he saved 43% of the break points that he conceded. The Chinese broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Bai was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Ivanovski | |||
| Q1 Hazawa |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 31 | |
| pts | 95-99 | 95-99 | |
| Total points | 194 | 194 | |
| Winners | 44 | 44 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 68/103 | 68/103 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 44/68 | 44/68 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/35 | 18/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 3/7 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 43% | 43% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Bai | |||
| Q1 Wehnelt |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 67-55 | 67-55 | |
| Total points | 122 | 122 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/55 | 36/55 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 30/36 | 30/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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