Dane Sweeny and Yasutaka Uchiyama will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Busan Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yasutaka Uchiyama who should win in 3 sets.
Yasutaka Uchiyama -> 1.87
Dane Sweeny -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Dane Sweeny vs. Yasutaka Uchiyama
This will be the 3rd time that Dane Sweeny and Yasutaka Uchiyama face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Sweeny and Uchiyama (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Sweeny won 6-2 3-1 ret. in the semifinal in the Burnie 2 Challenger back in February 2024.
Dane Sweeny
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-16 | 14-11 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-33 | 25-23 | 10-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 62-26 | 59-22 | 3-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-23 | 19-15 | 1-1 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 225, the Australian reached the 2nd round after beating Yanki Erel 4-6 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round against Erel, Dane recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-4). During the match, Sweeny scored 111 points vs Erel’s 104. Sweeny was extremely aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sweeny scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 5 double faults. Dane Sweeny lost the serve 4 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Sweeny put 57% of his first serves in, winning 74% (39/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (17/40) on the 2nd serve. Sweeny broke Erel 5 times after converting 29% of his break points (5/17).
Sweeny has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 58% of his matches (158-113). 14-7 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Sweeny has an overall132-80 match record in the last 7 years on hard.
The Australian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Burnie 2 Challenger.
Sweeny has a compiled 14-7 win-loss record in 2024, 14-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Dane has never competed in this tournament before.
Yasutaka Uchiyama
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-11 | 13-7 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-24 | 27-22 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-21 | 16-13 | 0-0 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-26 | 9-13 | 0-3 | 1-6 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-13 | 4-5 | 0-2 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 241, the Japanese reached the 2nd round after defeating Sho Shimabukuro 6-3 6-0.
In the 1st round, Yasutaka had a good straight sets win against Shimabukuro (6-3 6-0). During the match Uchiyama scored 58 points vs Shimabukuro’s 32. Uchiyama was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Uchiyama made 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yasutaka Uchiyama lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Uchiyama put 64% of his first serves in, winning 76% (26/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 32% (6/19) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Shimabukuro 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).
Yasutaka’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Burnie 1 Challenger and the Burnie 2 Challenger.
Yasutaka has a composed 11-6 win-loss record in 2024, 9-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See his history
.H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sweeny | Uchiyama |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 30 | 15 |
| Pts | 111-104 | 58-32 |
| Total Points | 215 | 90 |
| Winners | 39 | 26 |
| %Winners | 35% | 45% |
Both Sweeny and Uchiyama played 1 match. At the moment, Dane Sweeny dropped 1 set while Yasutaka Uchiyama hasn’t lost a set so far. Sweeny has played 1 set more than Uchiyama (3 vs 2). Therefore, Sweeny played 15 games more than Uchiyama. Dane scored 39 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Yasutaka fired 26 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sweeny | Uchiyama |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 5 |
| 1st in | 53/93 | 34/53 |
| %1st in | 57% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 39/53 | 26/34 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 17/40 | 6/19 |
| %2nd pts | 43% | 32% |
Sweeny struck 1 ace . Uchiyama also fired 5 aces . Sweeny won 74% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Uchiyama won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 32% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sweeny | Uchiyama |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/17 | 6/7 |
| % Converted | 29% | 86% |
| Conceded | 5 | 4 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 20% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 2 |
Dane broke his opponent 5 times with a 29% conversion rate. Sweeny lost his serve 4 times and he saved 20% of the break points that he conceded. Uchiyama broke his opponent 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sweeny | |||
| R1 Erel | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 111-104 | 111-104 | |
| Total points | 215 | 215 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 53/93 | 53/93 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 39/53 | 39/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/40 | 17/40 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/17 | 5/17 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 1/5 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 20% | 20% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Uchiyama | |||
| R1 Shimabukuro | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 58-32 | 58-32 | |
| Total points | 90 | 90 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 34/53 | 34/53 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 26/34 | 26/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/19 | 6/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 32% | 32% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/7 | 6/7 | |
| Converted % | 86% | 86% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Tennis Scores in Busan Challenger
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Arthur FeryFery (4-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Philip SekulicSekulic (6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Dane SweenySweeny (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Paul JubbJubb (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (0-3) – H2H and prediction