Rio Noguchi and Moez Echargui will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 6. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Moez Echargui who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Moez Echargui is the pick to win this match.
Moez Echargui -> 1.77
Rio Noguchi -> 1.98
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Prediction and head to head Rio Noguchi vs. Moez Echargui
There is no head to head record between Rio Noguchi and Moez Echargui since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Rio Noguchi
19 - 11win/loss
301
201
LLLLLWWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | 14-12 | 5-6 | 0-3 | 3-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 323, Noguchi got to the qualifications after beating Mikalai Haliak 4-6 6-4 7-64.
In the qualifications against Haliak, Noguchi recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 7-64).During the match, Noguchi scored less points (2) than Haliak. In fact, the world no. 323 won 112 points vs Haliak’s. That means that Noguchi was more focused during the important points. Noguchi was pretty aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about the service games, Noguchi was unable to score even 1 ace in the course of the match and he committed only 3 double faults. Rio Noguchi lost the serve 5 times and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Noguchi put 56% of his first serves in, winning 62% (40/65) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (25/51) on the 2nd serve. Rio broke Haliak 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).
Noguchi has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 60% of his matches (307-208). 15-9 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Noguchi has an aggregate203-127 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
Noguchi’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Swan Hill.
Noguchi has an aggregate 19-11 win-loss record in 2024, 15-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Moez Echargui
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-25 | 9-10 | 12-14 | 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. 331, the Tunisian got to the qualifications after defeating James Kent Trotter 7-62 7-5.
In the qualifications, Echargui had a good straight sets win against Kent Trotter (7-62 7-5). During the match Echargui scored 80 points vs Kent Trotter’s 71. Echargui was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Echargui blasted 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Moez Echargui lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Echargui put 55% of his first serves in, winning 68% (27/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 61% (20/33) on the 2nd serve. The Tunisian broke Kent Trotter 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Echargui has an aggregate 10-8 win-loss record in 2024, 8-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
The Tunisian has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Noguchi | Echargui |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 33 | 25 |
| Pts | 112-114 | 80-71 |
| Total Points | 226 | 151 |
| Winners | 40 | 27 |
| %Winners | 36% | 34% |
Both Noguchi and Echargui played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Rio Noguchi lost 1 set while Moez Echargui hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Noguchi has played 1 set more than Echargui (3 vs 2). Therefore, Noguchi played 8 games more than Echargui. Noguchi scored 40 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Moez recorded 27 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Noguchi | Echargui |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 4 |
| 1st in | 65/116 | 40/73 |
| %1st in | 56% | 55% |
| 1st pts | 40/65 | 27/40 |
| %1st pts | 62% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 25/51 | 20/33 |
| %2nd pts | 49% | 61% |
Noguchi didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Echargui made 4 aces . Noguchi won 62% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Echargui won 68% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Noguchi | Echargui |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/14 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 36% | 57% |
| Conceded | 15 | 9 |
| Saved | 10 | 6 |
| % Saved | 67% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 3 |
The Japanese broke his opponent 5 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Japanese dropped his serve 5 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Moez broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Echargui conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Noguchi | |||
| Q1 Haliak |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-4 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 33 | 33 | |
| pts | 112-114 | 112-114 | |
| Total points | 226 | 226 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 65/116 | 65/116 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 40/65 | 40/65 | |
| % 1st pts | 62% | 62% | |
| 2nd pts | 25/51 | 25/51 | |
| % 2nd pts | 49% | 49% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/14 | 5/14 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 15 | 15 | |
| Saved | 10/15 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
| Echargui | |||
| Q1 Kent |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 80-71 | 80-71 | |
| Total points | 151 | 151 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 40/73 | 40/73 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 27/40 | 27/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/33 | 20/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 6/9 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
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