Makoto Ochi and Ye Cong Mo will square off in the 1^st round of the Jinan Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ye Cong Mo who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ye Cong Mo is the pick to win this match.
Ye Cong Mo -> 1.87
Makoto Ochi -> 1.87

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Prediction and head to head Makoto Ochi vs. Ye Cong Mo

This will be the 2^nd time that Makoto Ochi and Ye Cong Mo clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Ochi (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Ochi won 6-0 6-2

in the 1^st round in M15 Nanchang back in 2019.

Makoto Ochi

Ranked no. 475, Makoto will start his run in the Jinan Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Taipei where he lost 6-1 6-2 to Hsiou in the quarter on the 9^th of August.

The Japanese has a composed 11-15 win-loss record in 2024, 7-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Ochi has an overall 216-179 record. He has a positive 167-134 record on hard.

Previously in the Jinan Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2018. See his history.

Ye Cong Mo

Ranked no. 694, Ye got to the 1^st round after defeating Renlong Pang 6-1 6-2 and Egor Agafonov 6-3 6-7(4) 6-3.

In the qualifications, Cong defeated Agafonov (6-3 6-7⁴ 6-3). During the match Cong scored 101 points vs Agafonov’s 85. Cong was extremely aggressive to blast 39 winners.

About the serving games, Cong struck 4 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Overall, Ye Cong Mo was very effective on serve to win 75% (39/52) of his 1st serve and 52% (22/42) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Cong broke Agafonov 7 times after converting 70% of his break points (7/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Chinese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.

Cong’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Luan.

The Chinese has an aggregate 17-16 win-loss record in 2024, 14-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Jinan Challenger

• Philip HenningHenning – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yi ZhouZhou – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-6⁴ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Bogdan BobrovBobrov (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Yuquan JinJin (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tung-Lin WuWu – Linang XiaoXiao (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sanhui ShinSanhui – Jie CuiJie (6-0 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Yan BaiBai (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ryan PenistonPeniston – Woobin ShinShin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ajeet RaiRai – Arthur WeberWeber (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Fajing SunSun – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kris Van WykVan Wyk – Aidan MchughMchugh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Mikalai HaliakHaliak – Keegan SmithSmith (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ye Cong MoCong Mo – Makoto OchiOchi (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Philip HenningHenning – Sanhui ShinShin (0-0) – H2H and prediction