August Holmgren and Kai Wehnelt will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on COURT 7. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is August Holmgren who should win in 2 sets.
August Holmgren -> 1.192
Kai Wehnelt -> 4.3
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Prediction and head to head August Holmgren vs. Kai Wehnelt
There is no head to head record between August Holmgren and Kai Wehnelt since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
August Holmgren
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-25 | 24-12 | 6-6 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-26 | 33-14 | 9-6 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-12 | 18-4 | 10-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-8 | 12-6 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 337, August reached the qualifications after defeating Ryuki Tsutsumi 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Dane had a good straight sets win against Tsutsumi (6-3 6-2). During the match, Holmgren scored 54 points vs Tsutsumi’s 38. August was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Holmgren scored just 1 ace and he committed only 5 double faults. August Holmgren was quite efficient on serve to win 81% (25/31) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. August broke Tsutsumi 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Holmgren has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 67% of his matches (132-65). 30-13 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Holmgren has a composed79-35 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
The Dane’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Nottingham and M25 Harlingen.
The Dane has a compiled 43-25 win-loss record in 2023, 30-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger
August has never competed in this tournament before.
Kai Wehnelt
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-23 | 7-7 | 12-11 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-2 |
| 2023 | 36-33 | 16-8 | 20-21 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-31 | 4-6 | 19-20 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 29-26 | 16-9 | 12-14 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-5 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
Ranked no. 561, Kai reached the qualifications after beating Shogo Sanada 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Wehnelt had a good straight sets win against Sanada (6-3 6-2). During the match Wehnelt scored 62 points vs Sanada’s 45. Kai was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Wehnelt recorded 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Kai Wehnelt was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 79% (27/34) of his 1st serve and 59% (13/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kai broke Sanada 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Wehnelt’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Monastir.
Kai has a compiled 36-32 win-loss record in 2023, 16-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Holmgren | Wehnelt |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 |
| Pts | 54-38 | 62-45 |
| Total Points | 92 | 107 |
| Winners | 25 | 27 |
| %Winners | 46% | 44% |
Both Holmgren and Wehnelt played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Holmgren and Wehnelt have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (17). Holmgren scored 25 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Wehnelt struck 27 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Holmgren | Wehnelt |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3 |
| 1st in | 31/51 | 34/56 |
| %1st in | 61% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 25/31 | 27/34 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 13/22 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 59% |
Holmgren bagged 1 ace . Wehnelt also bagged 3 aces . Holmgren won 81% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Wehnelt won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Holmgren | Wehnelt |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/7 |
| % Converted | 75% | 43% |
| Conceded | 0 | 5 |
| Saved | 0 | 5 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The Dane broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Holmgren extremely effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. The German broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Kai was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.
| Holmgren | |||
| Q1 Tsutsumi | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 54-38 | 54-38 | |
| Total points | 92 | 92 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 31/51 | 31/51 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 25/31 | 25/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Wehnelt | |||
| Q1 Sanada | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 62-45 | 62-45 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 34/56 | 34/56 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 27/34 | 27/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/22 | 13/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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