Kaichi Uchida and Ji Sung Nam will play each other in the 1st round of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on SUB- CENTRE. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ji Sung Nam who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ji Sung Nam is the pick to win this match.
Ji Sung Nam -> 1.82
Kaichi Uchida -> 1.909
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Prediction and head to head Kaichi Uchida vs. Ji Sung Nam
This will be the 5th time that Kaichi Uchida and Ji Sung Nam face off. The head to head is 4-0 for Sung Nam (see full H2H stats), 4-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Sung Nam won 6-3 6-3 in the 1st round in the Busan Challenger back in 2022.
Kaichi Uchida
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-14 | 11-8 | 16-6 | 5-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-33 | 4-18 | 3-10 | 9-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-34 | 24-23 | 8-5 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-26 | 27-13 | 6-11 | 1-2 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-11 | 10-5 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 319, Kaichi will start his run in the Yokkaichi Challenger after he played his last match in the Kobe Challenger where he lost 6-1 7-6(5) to Shimabukuro in the 1st round on the 14th of November.
Uchida has a composed 16-32 win-loss record in 2023, 3-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Japanese’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Rovereto Challenger and the Pau Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Kaichi has an overall 350-343 record. He has a negative 195-203 record on hard.
Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See his history.
Ji Sung Nam
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-7 | 5-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 15-20 | 13-15 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-19 | 24-13 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 4-7 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 693, Sung Nam reached the 1st round after defeating Fajing Sun 6-3 6-2 and Calum Puttergill 4-6 6-1 6-0.
In the qualifications against Puttergill, Ji recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-1 6-0). During the match Sung Nam scored 93 points vs Puttergill’s 63. The Korean was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Sung Nam struck 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Ji Sung Nam was extremely efficient on serve to win 78% (32/41) of his 1st serve and 59% (17/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Korean broke Puttergill 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Korean started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
The Korean has a compiled 15-19 win-loss record in 2023, 13-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2019. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Zizou BergsBergs – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (5-7 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (6-2 6-75 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Omar JasikaJasika – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (6-77 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Tatsuma ItoIto (4-9) – H2H and prediction
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Moez EcharguiEchargui (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (0-4) – H2H and prediction
- Renta TokudaTokuda – Michael MmohMmoh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi – August HolmgrenHolmgren (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Mathys ErhardErhard (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
