Moez Echargui and Yusuke Takahashi will face off in the qualifications of the Gwangju Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on COURT 4. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Moez Echargui who should win in 3 sets.
Moez Echargui -> 1.44
Yusuke Takahashi -> 2.66
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Prediction and head to head Moez Echargui vs. Yusuke Takahashi
This will be the 3rd time that Moez Echargui and Yusuke Takahashi play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Echargui (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Echargui won 7-6(5) 0-6 7-6(6) in the 1st round in M15 Monastir back in 2021.
Moez Echargui
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-15 | 9-10 | 2-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-34 | 23-10 | 23-22 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-29 | 7-2 | 37-26 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-24 | 38-17 | 4-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-14 | 20-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 319, the Tunisian reached the qualifications after defeating Hoyoung Roh 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Moez had a good straight sets win against Roh (6-3 6-4). During the match, Echargui scored 69 points vs Roh’s 57. Moez was quite aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about the service games, Echargui made 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Moez Echargui was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 75% (18/24) of his 1st serve and 52% (15/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Echargui broke Roh 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Echargui has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 58% of his matches (274-202). 6-5 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Echargui has a compiled159-88 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
Moez has a composed 8-6 win-loss record in 2024, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Gwangju Challenger
Moez has never competed in this tournament before.
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-13 | 13-12 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 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 |
| 2020 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 454, Yusuke reached the qualifications after defeating Mikalai Haliak 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Haliak (6-1 6-1). During the match Takahashi scored 67 points vs Haliak’s 47. The Japanese was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Takahashi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Yusuke Takahashi conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 11 break points. Furthermore, Takahashi put 66% of his first serves in, winning 59% (27/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Haliak 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Yusuke has an aggregate 9-7 win-loss record in 2024, 8-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Echargui | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 14 |
| Pts | 69-57 | 67-47 |
| Total Points | 126 | 114 |
| Winners | 18 | 27 |
| %Winners | 26% | 40% |
Both Echargui 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, Echargui and Takahashi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Echargui played 5 games more than Takahashi. The Tunisian scored 18 winners (26% of the total points). On the other side, Takahashi managed to score 27 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Echargui | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 1 |
| 1st in | 24/53 | 46/70 |
| %1st in | 45% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 18/24 | 27/46 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 59% |
| 2nd pts | 15/29 | 15/24 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 63% |
Echargui fired 4 aces . Takahashi struck 1 ace . Echargui won 75% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Takahashi won 59% of the points behind 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 | Echargui | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 |
| % Converted | 42% | 42% |
| Conceded | 4 | 11 |
| Saved | 2 | 11 |
| % Saved | 50% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Echargui broke his opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. Echargui lost his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Takahashi broke his opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. Takahashi was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 11 break points.
| Echargui | |||
| Q1 Roh | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 69-57 | 69-57 | |
| Total points | 126 | 126 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 26% | 26% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 24/53 | 24/53 | |
| % 1st in | 45% | 45% | |
| 1st pts | 18/24 | 18/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/29 | 15/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Takahashi | |||
| Q1 Haliak | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 67-47 | 67-47 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 46/70 | 46/70 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 27/46 | 27/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 59% | 59% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 15/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 11/11 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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