Yu Hsiou Hsu and Rio Noguchi will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Taipei Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yu Hsiou Hsu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yu Hsiou Hsu is the pick to win this match.
Yu Hsiou Hsu -> 1.51
Rio Noguchi -> 2.45
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Prediction and head to head Yu Hsiou Hsu vs. Rio Noguchi
This will be the 3rd time that Yu Hsiou Hsu and Rio Noguchi fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Noguchi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Noguchi won 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in the Kobe Challenger back in 2023.
Yu Hsiou Hsu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 40-25 | 38-21 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-21 | 30-15 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-24 | 47-18 | 5-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 53-23 | 49-16 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 235, Hsiou Hsu got to the 2nd round after beating Yasutaka Uchiyama 7-65 6-3.
In the 1st round, Hsiou Hsu had a good straight sets win against Uchiyama (7-65 6-3). During the match, Hsiou Hsu scored 78 points vs Uchiyama’s 69. Hsiou Hsu was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about the service games, Hsiou Hsu managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Yu Hsiou Hsu lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Hsiou Hsu put 68% of his first serves in, winning 70% (33/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Uchiyama 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Hsiou Hsu has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 64% of his matches (241-138). 14-10 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Hsiou Hsu has a composed209-104 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
Hsiou Hsu’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Kashiwa.
Yu has a compiled 16-12 win-loss record in 2024, 14-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Taipei Challenger
Rio Noguchi
21 - 12win/loss
295
201
LWLLWWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-26 | 30-19 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 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. 314, the Japanese reached the 2nd round after beating Alafia Ayeni 7-62 6-3.
In the 1st round, Noguchi had a good straight sets win against Ayeni (7-62 6-3). During the match Noguchi scored 85 points vs Ayeni’s 71. Noguchi was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Noguchi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Rio Noguchi was quite effective on serve to win 71% (34/48) of his 1st serve and 61% (17/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Ayeni twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Noguchi’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Swan Hill.
Rio has a composed 21-12 win-loss record in 2024, 17-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Hsiou Hsu | Noguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 |
| Pts | 78-69 | 85-71 |
| Total Points | 147 | 156 |
| Winners | 33 | 34 |
| %Winners | 42% | 40% |
Both Hsiou Hsu and Noguchi played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Hsiou Hsu and Noguchi have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (22). The Chinese scored 33 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese bagged 34 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Hsiou Hsu | Noguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
| 1st in | 47/69 | 48/76 |
| %1st in | 68% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 33/47 | 34/48 |
| %1st pts | 70% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 17/28 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 61% |
Hsiou Hsu made 3 aces . Noguchi recorded 1 ace . Hsiou Hsu won 70% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Noguchi won 71% of the points on 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 | Hsiou Hsu | Noguchi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 2 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 2/6 |
| % Converted | 33% | 33% |
| Conceded | 3 | 1 |
| Saved | 2 | 0 |
| % Saved | 67% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
The Chinese broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Yu lost his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Rio broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Noguchi conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Hsiou Hsu | |||
| R1 Uchiyama |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 78-69 | 78-69 | |
| Total points | 147 | 147 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 47/69 | 47/69 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 33/47 | 33/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 14/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Noguchi | |||
| R1 Ayeni |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 85-71 | 85-71 | |
| Total points | 156 | 156 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 48/76 | 48/76 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 34/48 | 34/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/28 | 17/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLLWWLWWL Tennis Scores in Taipei Challenger
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- Arthur FeryFery – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Li TuTu – Philip SekulicSekulic (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-62 6-3) – See score progression
- Adam WaltonWalton – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (7-65 6-0) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-73 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Yunseong ChungChung (6-4 7-60) – See score progression
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Bang Shuo YinShuo Yin (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Blake EllisEllis – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Brandon HoltHolt (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Remy BertolaBertola – Ray HoHo (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Moez EcharguiEchargui (7-67 6-2) – See score progression
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – James McCabeMcCabe (6-1 4-6 7-64) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-7(3) 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Remy BertolaBertola – Ray HoHo (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Omar JasikaJasika (6-4 7-6(8)) – See score progression
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-6(2) 6-3) – See score progression
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – James McCabeMcCabe (6-1 4-6 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Brandon HoltHolt (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (5-1) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Adam WaltonWalton (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Li TuTu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Remy BertolaBertola (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blake EllisEllis – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-2) – H2H and prediction
