Bu Yunchaokete and Rio Noguchi will face off in the 1st round of the Busan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Bu Yunchaokete who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Bu Yunchaokete is the pick to win this match.
Bu Yunchaokete -> 1.42
Rio Noguchi -> 2.73
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Prediction and head to head Bu Yunchaokete vs. Rio Noguchi
There is no head to head record between Bu Yunchaokete and Rio Noguchi since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Bu Yunchaokete
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-11 | 15-5 | 3-2 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-23 | 27-15 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 87-28 | 84-24 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 181, Yunchaokete will start his run in the Busan Challenger after he played his last match in the Murcia Challenger where he lost 7-5 3-6 6-1 to Ramos-Vinolas in the quarter on the 22nd of March.
Yunchaokete has a compiled 6-5 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Bu’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Tenerife 3 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Bu has an overall 131-60 record. He has a positive 115-43 record on hard.
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
Rio Noguchi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-18 | 17-11 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-31 | 12-18 | 2-7 | 2-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-22 | 41-10 | 9-9 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-26 | 18-18 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-12 | 5-6 | 0-3 | 3-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 343, Noguchi reached the 1st round after defeating Woobin Shin 3-6 7-64 6-4 and James McCabe 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against McCabe (6-4 6-2). During the match Noguchi scored 68 points vs McCabe’s 48. The Japanese was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Noguchi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Rio Noguchi was pretty effective on serve to win 77% (27/35) of his 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Noguchi broke McCabe 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Rio’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Swan Hill.
The Japanese has a compiled 14-8 win-loss record in 2024, 10-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Rio has never competed in this tournament before.
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