Hiroki Moriya and Yunseong Chung will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Busan Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yunseong Chung who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yunseong Chung is the pick to win this match.
Yunseong Chung -> 1.68
Hiroki Moriya -> 2.1
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Prediction and head to head Hiroki Moriya vs. Yunseong Chung
This will be the 2nd time that Hiroki Moriya and Yunseong Chung clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Moriya (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Moriya won 4-6 7-6(4) 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Seoul Challenger back in 2017.
Hiroki Moriya
15 - 8win/loss
379
143
LWWLWLWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-31 | 34-27 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-28 | 31-27 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-30 | 18-19 | 0-0 | 7-9 | 1-1 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 22-28 | 13-17 | 0-0 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2020 | 7-15 | 5-5 | 1-2 | 0-7 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 331, Hiroki reached the qualifications after defeating Seokhyeon Chu 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Chu (6-3 6-3). During the match, Moriya scored 65 points vs Chu’s 53. Moriya was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Moriya scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 3 double faults. Hiroki Moriya lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Moriya put 59% of his first serves in, winning 64% (23/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the 2nd serve. Hiroki broke Chu 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Moriya has a weak match record in the last 10 years having won only 48% of his matches (249-270). 15-6 on hard in 2024. . Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Moriya has an overall 194-181 match record in the last years on hard.
Moriya’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in M25 Traralgon.
Moriya has a compiled 15-8 win-loss record in 2024, 15-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Yunseong Chung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-17 | 14-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-22 | 20-16 | 5-4 | 3-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-25 | 23-17 | 7-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-15 | 21-10 | 5-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 388, Yunseong got to the qualifications after defeating Stefanos Sakellaridis 1-6 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications against Sakellaridis, Chung recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-2 6-3). During the match Chung scored 82 points vs Sakellaridis’s 73. Chung was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Chung scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Yunseong Chung was very effective on serve to win 76% (34/45) of his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Yunseong broke Sakellaridis 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
Yunseong has an aggregate 8-7 win-loss record in 2024, 8-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Moriya | Chung |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 24 |
| Pts | 65-53 | 82-73 |
| Total Points | 118 | 155 |
| Winners | 23 | 34 |
| %Winners | 35% | 41% |
Both Moriya and Chung played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Yunseong Chung surrendered 1 set while Hiroki Moriya hasn’t lost a set so far. Moriya has played 1 set(s) less than Chung (2 vs 3). Therefore, Moriya played 6 games less than Chung. Moriya scored 23 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Yunseong blasted 34 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Moriya | Chung |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 36/61 | 45/68 |
| %1st in | 59% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 23/36 | 34/45 |
| %1st pts | 64% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 14/25 | 12/23 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 52% |
Moriya scored 1 ace . Chung also bagged 1 ace . Moriya won 64% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Chung won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Moriya | Chung |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 3/11 |
| % Converted | 56% | 27% |
| Conceded | 5 | 2 |
| Saved | 3 | 0 |
| % Saved | 60% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Hiroki broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Japanese dropped his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Chung broke his opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. Chung conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Moriya | |||
| Q1 Chu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 65-53 | 65-53 | |
| Total points | 118 | 118 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 36/61 | 36/61 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 23/36 | 23/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/25 | 14/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Chung | |||
| Q1 Sakellaridis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 1-6 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 24 | 24 | |
| pts | 82-73 | 82-73 | |
| Total points | 155 | 155 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 45/68 | 45/68 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 34/45 | 34/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/23 | 12/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 3/11 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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