Alex Bolt and Rio Noguchi will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Shenzhen 1 Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 6. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Bolt who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alex Bolt is the pick to win this match.
Alex Bolt -> 1.4
Rio Noguchi -> 2.8
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Prediction and head to head Alex Bolt vs. Rio Noguchi
This will be the 3rd time that Alex Bolt and Rio Noguchi play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Bolt (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Bolt won 6-1 6-2 in the final in M25 Swan Hill back in March 2024.
Alex Bolt
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9-10 | 9-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 48-78 | 26-21 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 21-56 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-22 | 22-17 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-10 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-18 | 7-6 | 0-7 | 2-2 | 10-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 244, the Australian will start his run in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Gwangju Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Hsiou in the 2nd round on the 17th of April.
Alex has an overall 25-8 win-loss record in 2024, 16-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Australian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Burnie 1 Challenger,M25 Traralgon,M25 Mildura and M25 Swan Hill.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 316-230 record. He has a positive 200-151 record on hard.
Previously in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger
Alex has never competed in this tournament before.
Rio Noguchi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19-12 | 19-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-31 | 36-22 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 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 |
Ranked no. 323, the Japanese reached the 1st round after beating Yaojie Zeng 6-76 7-5 7-5 and Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-2 7-65.
In the qualifications, Noguchi had a good straight sets win against Ramanathan (6-2 7-65). During the match Noguchi scored 77 points vs Ramanathan’s 61. Rio was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Noguchi scored 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Rio Noguchi was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 84% (32/38) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Noguchi broke Ramanathan 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Rio started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Rio’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Swan Hill.
Rio has an aggregate 18-10 win-loss record in 2024, 14-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jules MarieMarie – (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Remy BertolaBertola – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Alex BoltBolt (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Lloyd HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
