Cooper Williams and Yusuke Takahashi will face off in the 1st round of the Little Rock Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 13. 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 Yusuke Takahashi who should win in 3 sets.
Yusuke Takahashi -> 1.61
Cooper Williams -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Cooper Williams vs. Yusuke Takahashi
There is no head to head record between Cooper Williams and Yusuke Takahashi since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Cooper Williams
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-12 | 5-7 | 0-1 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 9-12 | 3-5 | 4-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 9-10 | 6-5 | 1-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, the American will start his run in the Little Rock Challenger after he played his last match in the Champaign Challenger where he lost 6-3 2-6 6-4 to Kovacevic in the 1st round on the 14th of November.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Talking about his overall career, Cooper has an overall 21-24 record. He has a negative 9-10 record on hard.
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-27 | 23-24 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 33-28 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-22 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-23 | 18-21 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 467, the Japanese reached the 1st round after defeating Hans Hach Verdugo 6-0 6-2 and Adam Neff 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Neff (6-2 6-2). During the match Takahashi scored 56 points vs Neff’s 38. Yusuke was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Takahashi bagged 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Yusuke Takahashi was very efficient on serve to win 81% (25/31) of his 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Neff 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Takahashi started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to conquer 63% of the points he played.
The Japanese has a composed 13-10 win-loss record in 2024, 12-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Little Rock Challenger
- Andres AndradeAndrade – Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong (6-75 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Ethan QuinnQuinn (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Liam DraxlDraxl (6-3 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aidan MayoMayo – Nick ChappellChappell (6-3 5-7 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon HoltHolt – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-0 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Bernard TomicTomic – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Nicolas MejiaMejia (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christian LangmoLangmo – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Keegan SmithSmith (0-0) – H2H and prediction