Scott Jones and Taisei Ichikawa will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Burnie 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taisei Ichikawa who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Taisei Ichikawa is the pick to win this match.
Taisei Ichikawa -> 1.61
Scott Jones -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Scott Jones vs. Taisei Ichikawa
There is no head to head record between Scott Jones and Taisei Ichikawa since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Scott Jones
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-8 | 11-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-10 | 14-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Jones reached the qualifications after defeating Thomas Braithwaite 6-1 7-64.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Braithwaite (6-1 7-64). During the match, Jones scored 73 points vs Braithwaite’s 52. Scott was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Jones scored just 1 ace throughout the encounter and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Scott Jones was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 81% (26/32) of his 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Jones broke Braithwaite 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Jones has a solid match record in the last 4 years having won 64% of his matches (18-10). 1-0 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Jones has an aggregate15-8 match record in the last 4 years on hard.
Scott has an aggregate 1-0 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Burnie 1 Challenger
Scott has never competed in this tournament before.
Taisei Ichikawa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-18 | 17-15 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-25 | 29-19 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-18 | 12-15 | 4-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-19 | 8-16 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 712 (career-high), the Japanese got to the qualifications after beating Corban Crowther 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Crowther (6-3 6-2). During the match Ichikawa scored 67 points vs Crowther’s 43. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Ichikawa scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Taisei Ichikawa was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 71% (22/31) of his 1st serve and 63% (17/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Ichikawa broke Crowther 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Ichikawa has a compiled 1-0 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Jones | Ichikawa |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 17 |
| Pts | 73-52 | 67-43 |
| Total Points | 125 | 110 |
| Winners | 26 | 22 |
| %Winners | 36% | 33% |
Both Jones and Ichikawa played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Jones and Ichikawa have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Jones played 3 games more than Ichikawa. Jones scored 26 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Taisei struck 22 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Jones | Ichikawa |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 32/55 | 31/58 |
| %1st in | 58% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 22/31 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 17/27 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 63% |
Jones recorded 1 ace . Ichikawa also managed to score 1 ace . Jones won 81% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Ichikawa won 71% of the points on 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 | Jones | Ichikawa |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 50% | 57% |
| Conceded | 5 | 2 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 80% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Scott broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Jones surrendered his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Ichikawa broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Ichikawa conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Jones | |||
| Q1 Braithwaite |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 73-52 | 73-52 | |
| Total points | 125 | 125 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 32/55 | 32/55 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 26/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 14/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Ichikawa | |||
| Q1 Crowther |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 67-43 | 67-43 | |
| Total points | 110 | 110 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 31/58 | 31/58 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 22/31 | 22/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/27 | 17/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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