Ilia Simakin and Takuya Kumasaka will face off in the qualifications of the Nonthaburi 4 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ilia Simakin who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ilia Simakin is the pick to win this match.
Ilia Simakin -> 1.33
Takuya Kumasaka -> 3.1
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Prediction and head to head Ilia Simakin vs. Takuya Kumasaka
There is no head to head record between Ilia Simakin and Takuya Kumasaka since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Ilia Simakin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 40-15 | 33-14 | 0-0 | 7-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-19 | 28-18 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-17 | 24-12 | 0-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 428, the Russian got to the qualifications after beating Natthayut Nithithananont 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Nithithananont (6-1 6-1). During the match, Simakin scored 54 points vs Nithithananont’s 26. Simakin was pretty aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about the service games, Simakin made 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Ilia Simakin was very effective on serve to win 90% (19/21) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ilia was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Nithithananont 5 times.
Simakin has a solid record in the last 4 years having won 64% of his matches (94-52). 31-13 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Simakin has an overall83-43 record in the last 4 years on hard.
The Russian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Aktobe,M15 Tbilisi,M15 Monastir and M15 Nakhon Si Thammarat.
Simakin has a compiled 38-14 win-loss record in 2024, 31-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Nonthaburi 4 Challenger
Simakin has never competed in this tournament before.
Takuya Kumasaka
27 - 16win/loss
517
517
LWWWWWWLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-16 | 25-14 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-24 | 18-12 | 15-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-14 | 22-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-8 | 8-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 517 (career-high), Kumasaka reached the qualifications after defeating Kaichi Uchida 7-6(4) 6-2.
In the qualifications, Kumasaka had a good straight sets win against Uchida (7-64 6-2). During the match Kumasaka scored 75 points vs Uchida’s 57. Kumasaka was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Kumasaka managed to score 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Takuya Kumasaka was quite efficient on serve to win 91% (31/34) of his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Takuya broke Uchida twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Takuya’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Monastir and M25 Sapporo.
Takuya has an overall 27-15 win-loss record in 2024, 25-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Simakin | Kumasaka |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 21 |
| Pts | 54-26 | 75-57 |
| Total Points | 80 | 132 |
| Winners | 19 | 31 |
| %Winners | 35% | 41% |
Both Simakin and Kumasaka played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Simakin and Kumasaka have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Simakin played 7 games less than Kumasaka. Simakin scored 19 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Takuya blasted 31 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Simakin | Kumasaka |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 9 |
| 1st in | 21/37 | 34/58 |
| %1st in | 57% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 19/21 | 31/34 |
| %1st pts | 90% | 91% |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 15/24 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 63% |
Simakin recorded 6 aces . Kumasaka fired 9 aces . Simakin won 90% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Kumasaka won 91% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Simakin | Kumasaka |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 2 |
| Converted | 5/5 | 2/6 |
| % Converted | 100% | 33% |
| Conceded | 2 | 3 |
| Saved | 2 | 3 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The Russian broke his opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. Simakin very solid his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 2 break points. Kumasaka broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. The Japanese was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Simakin | |||
| Q1 Nithithananont |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 54-26 | 54-26 | |
| Total points | 80 | 80 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 21/37 | 21/37 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 19/21 | 19/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/5 | 5/5 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kumasaka | |||
| Q1 Uchida |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 75-57 | 75-57 | |
| Total points | 132 | 132 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 34/58 | 34/58 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 31/34 | 31/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 91% | 91% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 15/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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