Antoine Escoffier and Rio Noguchi will square off in the 1st round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 6. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Antoine Escoffier who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Antoine Escoffier is the pick to win this match.
Antoine Escoffier -> 1.7
Rio Noguchi -> 2.07
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Prediction and head to head Antoine Escoffier vs. Rio Noguchi
There is no head to head record between Antoine Escoffier and Rio Noguchi since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Antoine Escoffier
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-17 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 7-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-30 | 21-14 | 1-2 | 17-12 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-33 | 12-12 | 0-2 | 31-16 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 56-26 | 19-8 | 11-8 | 26-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-6 | 8-1 | 0-0 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 2-0 |
Ranked no. 236, Escoffier will start his run in the Guangzhou Challenger after he played his last match in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Duckworth in the 2nd round on the 25th of April.
The French player has an aggregate 8-14 win-loss record in 2024, 1-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Antoine’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Balma.
Talking about his overall career, Antoine has an overall 472-289 record. He has a positive 267-151 record on hard.
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Antoine has never competed in this tournament before.
Rio Noguchi
20 - 12win/loss
314
201
LWLWWLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-13 | 17-11 | 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 1st round after beating Mikalai Haliak 4-6 6-4 7-64 and Moez Echargui 6-4 2-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, Noguchi defeated Echargui (6-4 2-6 6-2). During the match Noguchi scored 90 points vs Echargui’s 88. Rio was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Noguchi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Rio Noguchi lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Noguchi put 63% of his first serves in, winning 54% (30/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 70% (23/33) on the 2nd serve. Noguchi broke Echargui 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Rio started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 50% of the points he played.
The Japanese’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Swan Hill.
Rio has a compiled 20-11 win-loss record in 2024, 16-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- James DuckworthDuckworth – Dane SweenySweeny (0-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rigele TeTe – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alex BoltBolt – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (6-4 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Federico CinaCina (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Omar JasikaOmar – Jiaji WangJiaji (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Ricardas BerankisRicardas – Alibek KachmazovAlibek (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Richard BerankisBerankis – James DuckworthDuckworth (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Maxime CressyCressy (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Li TuTu – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Brandon HoltHolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Yan BaiBai (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
