Mark Lajal and Rio Noguchi will face off in the 1st round of the Granby Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mark Lajal who should win in 2 sets.
Mark Lajal -> 1.21
Rio Noguchi -> 4.1
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Prediction and head to head Mark Lajal vs. Rio Noguchi
There is no head to head record between Mark Lajal and Rio Noguchi since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Mark Lajal
17 - 18win/loss
229
191
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-30 | 18-14 | 0-3 | 15-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 25-16 | 5-2 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-24 | 35-12 | 2-6 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-7 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 246, Lajal will start his run in the Granby Challenger after he played his last match in the Winnipeg Challenger where he lost 7-5 4-6 6-3 to Sekulic in the 1st round on the 9th of July.
Lajal has an aggregate 17-17 win-loss record in 2024, 10-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Mark’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Lajal has an overall 114-77 record. He has a positive 75-40 record on hard.
Previously in the Granby Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Rio Noguchi
25 - 18win/loss
298
201
| 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. 335, the Japanese got to the 1st round after defeating Quinn Vandecasteele 3-6 7-6(5) 6-3 and Ryuki Matsuda 6-7(2) 6-3 7-5.
In the qualifications against Matsuda, Noguchi recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-72 6-3 7-5). During the match Noguchi scored 129 points vs Matsuda’s 120. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 60 winners.
Talking about serving, Noguchi bagged 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Rio Noguchi lost the serve 4 times and he saved 12 break points. Furthermore, Noguchi put 76% of his first serves in, winning 61% (60/99) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (14/31) on the 2nd serve. Noguchi broke Matsuda 7 times after converting 64% of his break points (7/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
Rio’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Swan Hill.
The Japanese has an aggregate 24-18 win-loss record in 2024, 19-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Granby Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Granby Challenger
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Liam DraxlDraxl (4-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Blaise BicknellBicknell (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Justin BoulaisBoulais – Vasek PospisilPospisil (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Clement ChidekhChidekh (6-3 7-69) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andres AndradeAndrade – Adam WaltonWalton (4-6 5-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hady HabibHabib – Taha BaadiBaadi (3-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Hady HabibHabib (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Nicolas MejiaMejia (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Hugo GrenierGrenier (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andres AndradeAndrade – Justin BoulaisBoulais (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – Benjamin BonziBonzi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan BoyerBoyer – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Patrick MaloneyMaloney – Terence AtmaneAtmane (0-0) – H2H and prediction