Tatsuma Ito and Ray Ho will face off in the qualifications of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tatsuma Ito who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tatsuma Ito is the pick to win this match.
Tatsuma Ito -> 1.37
Ray Ho -> 2.91
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Prediction and head to head Tatsuma Ito vs. Ray Ho
There is no head to head record between Tatsuma Ito and Ray Ho since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Tatsuma Ito
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4-9 | 4-5 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-18 | 14-14 | 10-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-8 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-23 | 6-12 | 1-3 | 2-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-6 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 650, the Japanese reached the qualifications after beating Hikaru Shiraishi 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Shiraishi (6-3 6-4). During the match, Ito scored 70 points vs Shiraishi’s 55. Tatsuma was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ito bagged 5 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Tatsuma Ito was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 88% (30/34) of his 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Tatsuma broke Shiraishi twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).
Ito has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (273-227). 13-13 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ito has an aggregate 176-148 record in the last years on hard.
Ito’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Canberra and M15 Karuizawa.
Tatsuma has an overall 23-17 win-loss record in 2023, 13-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger
Ray Ho
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-17 | 12-15 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-27 | 30-26 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-29 | 20-22 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-18 | 14-8 | 18-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 787, Ho reached the qualifications after beating Colin Sinclair 6-3 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Sinclair (6-3 7-5). During the match Ho scored 73 points vs Sinclair’s 63. Ho was very aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Ho scored 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Ray Ho was quite effective on serve to win 75% (38/51) of his 1st serve and 56% (18/32) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ho was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Sinclair twice.
The Chinese’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Monastir.
Ho has a composed 30-26 win-loss record in 2023, 30-25 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ito | Ho |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 21 |
| Pts | 70-55 | 73-63 |
| Total Points | 125 | 136 |
| Winners | 30 | 38 |
| %Winners | 43% | 52% |
Both Ito and Ho played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Ito and Ho have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Ito played 2 games less than Ho. Tatsuma scored 30 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Ray scored 38 winners (52%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ito | Ho |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 8 |
| 1st in | 34/60 | 51/83 |
| %1st in | 57% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 30/34 | 38/51 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 14/26 | 18/32 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 56% |
Ito blasted 5 aces . Ho fired 8 aces . Ito won 88% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Ho won 75% of the points on 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 | Ito | Ho |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 2 |
| Converted | 2/8 | 2/2 |
| % Converted | 25% | 100% |
| Conceded | 2 | 5 |
| Saved | 2 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Tatsuma broke his opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. Ito had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 2 break points. Ho broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. Ray was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.
| Ito | |||
| Q1 Shiraishi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 70-55 | 70-55 | |
| Total points | 125 | 125 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 34/60 | 34/60 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 30/34 | 30/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/26 | 14/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/8 | 2/8 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Ho | |||
| Q1 Sinclair |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 73-63 | 73-63 | |
| Total points | 136 | 136 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 52% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 51/83 | 51/83 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 38/51 | 38/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/32 | 18/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/2 | 2/2 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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