Yasutaka Uchiyama and Marin Cilic will clash against each other in the quarter of the Hangzhou Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 3:00 pm on COURT CENTER. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marin Cilic who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Marin Cilic is the pick to win this match.
Marin Cilic -> 1.6
Yasutaka Uchiyama -> 2.34

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Prediction and head to head Yasutaka Uchiyama vs. Marin Cilic

This will be the 2^nd time that Yasutaka Uchiyama and Marin Cilic play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cilic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Cilic won 6-3 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Tokyo back in 2017.

Yasutaka Uchiyama

Ranked no. 160, Yasutaka got to the quarter after defeating Maxime Cressy 6-4 6-0, Mitchell Krueger 6-4 6-3, James McCabe 6-4 6-4 and Holger Rune 7-5 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, Uchiyama had a good straight sets win against Rune (7-5 6-4). During the match, Uchiyama scored 84 points vs Rune’s 68. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Regarding the service games, Uchiyama bagged 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Yasutaka Uchiyama lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Uchiyama put 67% of his first serves in, winning 77% (33/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Rune 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points he played.

Uchiyama has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (274-225). 25-12 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Uchiyama has a composed 202-144 record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Busan Challenger where he beat Seong Chan Hong in the final 7-6(4) 6-3 and the Zhangjiagang Challenger where he beat Mark Lajal in the final 6-7(4) 6-2 6-2.

Uchiyama has a compiled 29-16 win-loss record in 2024, 25-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Hangzhou

Yasutaka has never competed in this tournament before.

Marin Cilic

Ranked no. 777, the Croatian reached the quarter after defeating Zachary Svajda 5-7 6-3 6-0 and Yoshihito Nishioka 6-4 6-1.

In the 2^nd round, Cilic had a good straight sets win against Nishioka (6-4 6-1). During the match Cilic scored 55 points vs Nishioka’s 36. The Croatian was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.

About the serving games, Cilic blasted 15 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Marin Cilic lost the serve once. Furthermore, Cilic put 62% of his first serves in, winning 93% (26/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. Marin broke Nishioka 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Cilic has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.

Marin has an aggregate 5-6 win-loss record in 2024, 5-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Uchiyama	Cilic
Match played	4	2
Tot Set	8	5
Tot Games	77	44
Pts	280-212	140-106
Total Points	492	246
Winners	109	61
%Winners	39%	44%

Uchiyama played 4 matches while Cilic competed in 2 matches. Uchiyama started his run from the qualifications while Cilic had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Marin Cilic surrendered 1 set while Yasutaka Uchiyama hasn’t conceded a set so far. Uchiyama has played 3 sets more than Cilic (8 vs 5). Therefore, Uchiyama played 33 games more than Cilic. Uchiyama scored 109 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Cilic managed to score 61 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Uchiyama	Cilic
Aces	27	29
Avg per match	6.8	14.5
1st in	135/214	68/123
%1st in	63%	55%
1st pts	109/135	61/68
%1st pts	81%	90%
2nd pts	49/79	20/55
%2nd pts	62%	36%

Uchiyama struck 27 aces (6.8 per match). Cilic bagged 29 aces (14.5 per match). Uchiyama won 81% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Cilic won 90% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 36% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Uchiyama	Cilic
Won	13	11
Converted	13/36	11/18
% Converted	36%	61%
Conceded	7	6
Saved	5	1
% Saved	71%	17%
Times Broken	2	5

Uchiyama broke his opponents 13 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Japanese dropped his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Cilic broke his opponents 11 times with a 61% conversion rate. The Croatian conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 17% of the break points that he conceded.

Uchiyama
	Q1 Cressy	Q3 Krueger	R1 McCabe	R2 Rune	Total
Score	6-4 6-0	6-4 6-3	6-4 6-4	7-5 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	16	19	20	22	77
pts	58-33	63-51	75-60	84-68	280-212
Total points	91	114	135	152	492
Winners	23	27	26	33	109
%Winners	40%	43%	35%	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	7	10	2	8	27
Double Faults	1	0	0	1	2
1st in	25/39	32/50	35/61	43/64	135/214
% 1st in	64%	64%	57%	67%	63%
1st pts	23/25	27/32	26/35	33/43	109/135
% 1st pts	92%	84%	74%	77%	81%
2nd pts	9/14	10/18	20/26	10/21	49/79
% 2nd pts	64%	56%	77%	48%	62%
Breaks
Won	4	3	2	4	13
Converted	4/7	3/7	2/8	4/14	13/36
Converted %	57%	43%	25%	29%	36%
Conceded	0	0	3	4	7
Saved	0/0	0/0	3/3	2/4	5
Saved %	–	–	100%	50%	38%
Times Broken	0	0	0	2	2

Cilic
	R1 Svajda	R2 Nishioka	Total
Score	5-7 6-3 6-0	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	3	2	5
Tot Games	27	17	44
pts	85-70	55-36	140-106
Total points	155	91	246
Winners	35	26	61
%Winners	41%	47%	44%
SERVE
Aces	14	15	29
Double Faults	7	2	9
1st in	40/78	28/45	68/123
% 1st in	51%	62%	55%
1st pts	35/40	26/28	61/68
% 1st pts	88%	93%	90%
2nd pts	12/38	8/17	20/55
% 2nd pts	32%	47%	36%
Breaks
Won	7	4	11
Converted	7/12	4/6	11/18
Converted %	58%	67%	61%
Conceded	5	1	6
Saved	1/5	0/1	1
Saved %	20%	0%	5%
Times Broken	4	1	5

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