Rio Noguchi and Ramkumar Ramanathan will play each other in the qualifications of the Shenzhen 1 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ramkumar Ramanathan who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ramkumar Ramanathan is the pick to win this match.
Ramkumar Ramanathan -> 1.87
Rio Noguchi -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Rio Noguchi vs. Ramkumar Ramanathan
This will be the 2nd time that Rio Noguchi and Ramkumar Ramanathan face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Noguchi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Noguchi won 6-4 3-6 7-6(1) in the 1st round in Tokyo back in 2022.
Rio Noguchi
17 - 10win/loss
314
201
LWWLWWLWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-12 | 16-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 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. 323, Noguchi reached the qualifications after defeating Yaojie Zeng 6-76 7-5 7-5.
In the qualifications against Zeng, Noguchi recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-76 7-5 7-5). During the match, Noguchi scored 125 points vs Zeng’s 110. Noguchi was pretty aggressive to blast 46 winners.
Talking about the service games, Noguchi made 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Rio Noguchi was pretty effective on serve to win 72% (46/64) of his 1st serve and 56% (25/45) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 4 times. Rio broke Zeng 6 times after converting 38% of his break points (6/16).
Noguchi has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 60% of his matches (305-207). 13-8 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Noguchi has a composed201-126 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
Rio’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Swan Hill.
Noguchi has an aggregate 17-10 win-loss record in 2024, 13-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger
Rio has never competed in this tournament before.
Ramkumar Ramanathan
16 - 6win/loss
358
111
LLLWLWWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-9 | 15-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-21 | 25-12 | 0-6 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 15-34 | 4-13 | 4-8 | 2-6 | 4-6 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 45-32 | 23-11 | 8-7 | 5-8 | 7-4 | 2-2 |
| 2020 | 8-18 | 3-8 | 0-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 5-2 |
Ranked no. 360, Ramanathan got to the qualifications after defeating Dominik Palan 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Indian had a good straight sets win against Palan (6-4 6-2). During the match Ramanathan scored 65 points vs Palan’s 50. Ramkumar was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Ramanathan made 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Ramkumar Ramanathan was extremely effective on serve to win 79% (27/34) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ramkumar broke Palan 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Ramanathan’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 New Delhi and M15 Chandigarh.
Ramkumar has a composed 16-6 win-loss record in 2024, 15-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Noguchi | Ramanathan |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 37 | 18 |
| Pts | 125-110 | 65-50 |
| Total Points | 235 | 115 |
| Winners | 46 | 27 |
| %Winners | 37% | 42% |
Both Noguchi and Ramanathan played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Rio Noguchi dropped 1 set while Ramkumar Ramanathan hasn’t dropped a set so far. Noguchi has played 1 set more than Ramanathan (3 vs 2). Therefore, Noguchi played 19 games more than Ramanathan. The Japanese scored 46 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Ramanathan made 27 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Noguchi | Ramanathan |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 4 |
| 1st in | 64/109 | 34/54 |
| %1st in | 59% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 46/64 | 27/34 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 25/45 | 12/20 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 60% |
Noguchi managed to score 3 aces . Ramanathan blasted 4 aces . Noguchi won 72% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Ramanathan won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Noguchi | Ramanathan |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 3 |
| Converted | 6/16 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 38% | 60% |
| Conceded | 9 | 2 |
| Saved | 5 | 2 |
| % Saved | 56% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 0 |
The Japanese broke his opponent 6 times with a 38% conversion rate. Noguchi dropped his serve 4 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded. Ramkumar broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Ramanathan was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Noguchi | |||
| Q1 Zeng |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-76 7-5 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 37 | 37 | |
| pts | 125-110 | 125-110 | |
| Total points | 235 | 235 | |
| Winners | 46 | 46 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 64/109 | 64/109 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 46/64 | 46/64 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 25/45 | 25/45 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/16 | 6/16 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 5/9 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 56% | 56% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Ramanathan | |||
| Q1 Palan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 65-50 | 65-50 | |
| Total points | 115 | 115 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 34/54 | 34/54 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 27/34 | 27/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/20 | 12/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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