Philip Sekulic and Yusuke Takahashi will square off in the qualifications of the New Delhi Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 am on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Philip Sekulic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Philip Sekulic is the pick to win this match.
Philip Sekulic -> 1.38
Yusuke Takahashi -> 2.89
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Prediction and head to head Philip Sekulic vs. Yusuke Takahashi
This will be the 3rd time that Philip Sekulic and Yusuke Takahashi fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Takahashi won 6-2 4-1 ret. in the qualifications in the Kobe Challenger back in 2023.
Philip Sekulic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-17 | 20-16 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-31 | 34-26 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-28 | 33-24 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-23 | 19-15 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-3 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 270 (career-high), Sekulic got to the qualifications after defeating Vadym Ursu 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Ursu (6-3 6-2). During the match, Sekulic scored 64 points vs Ursu’s 42. Philip was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Sekulic bagged 4 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. Philip Sekulic lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Sekulic put 68% of his first serves in, winning 62% (21/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the 2nd serve. Sekulic broke Ursu 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Sekulic has a winning record in the last 6 years having won 56% of his matches (80-63). 4-6 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Sekulic has a compiled66-51 match record in the last 6 years on hard.
The Australian has a compiled 4-6 win-loss record in 2024, 4-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the New Delhi Challenger
Philip has never competed in this tournament before.
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44-26 | 40-24 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-28 | 25-25 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 33-28 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-22 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-23 | 18-21 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 403, the Japanese got to the qualifications after defeating Parth Aggarwal 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Yusuke had a good straight sets win against Aggarwal (6-3 6-3). During the match Takahashi scored 62 points vs Aggarwal’s 48. Takahashi was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Takahashi blasted 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Yusuke Takahashi lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Takahashi put 56% of his first serves in, winning 81% (26/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (11/25) on the 2nd serve. Takahashi broke Aggarwal 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Takahashi has a compiled 6-3 win-loss record in 2024, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sekulic | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 18 |
| Pts | 64-42 | 62-48 |
| Total Points | 106 | 110 |
| Winners | 21 | 26 |
| %Winners | 33% | 42% |
Both Sekulic and Takahashi 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, Sekulic and Takahashi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sekulic played 1 game less than Takahashi. The Australian scored 21 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese managed to score 26 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sekulic | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 3 |
| 1st in | 34/50 | 32/57 |
| %1st in | 68% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 21/34 | 26/32 |
| %1st pts | 62% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 11/25 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 44% |
Sekulic made 4 aces . Takahashi scored 3 aces . Sekulic won 62% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Takahashi won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 44% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sekulic | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/10 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 60% | 50% |
| Conceded | 5 | 4 |
| Saved | 3 | 3 |
| % Saved | 60% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Philip broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Sekulic surrendered his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Takahashi broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sekulic | |||
| Q1 Ursu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 64-42 | 64-42 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 34/50 | 34/50 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 21/34 | 21/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 62% | 62% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Takahashi | |||
| Q1 Aggarwal |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 62-48 | 62-48 | |
| Total points | 110 | 110 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 32/57 | 32/57 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 26/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/25 | 11/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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