Yusuke Takahashi and Zura Tkemaladze will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Hangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:30 am on COURT 3. In the following lines 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yusuke Takahashi is the pick to win this match.
Yusuke Takahashi -> 1.363
Zura Tkemaladze -> 2.93
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Prediction and head to head Yusuke Takahashi vs. Zura Tkemaladze
There is no head to head record between Yusuke Takahashi and Zura Tkemaladze since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Yusuke Takahashi
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 29-26 | 23-23 | 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. 540, Yusuke got to the qualifications after defeating Thomas Fancutt 7-6(4) 7-5.
In the qualifications, Takahashi had a good straight sets win against Fancutt (7-64 7-5). During the match, Takahashi scored 91 points vs Fancutt’s 79. Yusuke was quite aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Regarding the service games, Takahashi recorded 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Yusuke Takahashi was extremely effective on serve to win 82% (40/49) of his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Yusuke broke Fancutt twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).
Takahashi has winning record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (216-193). 21-19 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Takahashi has an aggregate 181-159 record in the last years on hard.
Takahashi has an overall 25-21 win-loss record in 2024, 21-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Hangzhou Challenger
Yusuke has never competed in this tournament before.
Zura Tkemaladze
22 - 23win/loss
688
633
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 26-28 | 21-19 | 5-6 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 37-33 | 31-24 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 42-27 | 29-19 | 9-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 8-13 | 5-8 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 734, Tkemaladze reached the qualifications after beating Mukund Sasikumar 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Georgean had a good straight sets win against Kumar Mukund (6-4 7-5). During the match Tkemaladze scored 80 points vs Kumar Mukund’s 68. Tkemaladze was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Tkemaladze recorded 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Zura Tkemaladze lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Tkemaladze put 74% of his first serves in, winning 65% (34/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the 2nd serve. Tkemaladze broke Kumar Mukund 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Tkemaladze’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Tashkent.
The Georgean has a compiled 22-23 win-loss record in 2024, 17-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Takahashi | Tkemaladze |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 25 | 22 |
Pts | 91-79 | 80-68 |
Total Points | 170 | 148 |
Winners | 40 | 34 |
%Winners | 44% | 43% |
Both Takahashi and Tkemaladze played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Takahashi and Tkemaladze have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Takahashi played 3 games more than Tkemaladze. Yusuke scored 40 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Zura made 34 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Takahashi | Tkemaladze |
---|---|---|
Aces | 5 | 3 |
Avg per match | 5 | 3 |
1st in | 49/77 | 52/70 |
%1st in | 64% | 74% |
1st pts | 40/49 | 34/52 |
%1st pts | 82% | 65% |
2nd pts | 16/28 | 10/18 |
%2nd pts | 57% | 56% |
Takahashi made 5 aces . Tkemaladze struck 3 aces . Takahashi won 82% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Tkemaladze won 65% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Takahashi | Tkemaladze |
---|---|---|
Won | 2 | 4 |
Converted | 2/10 | 4/9 |
% Converted | 20% | 44% |
Conceded | 4 | 7 |
Saved | 3 | 5 |
% Saved | 75% | 71% |
Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Takahashi broke his opponent twice with a 20% conversion rate. The Japanese dropped his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Tkemaladze broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Tkemaladze conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
Takahashi | |||
Q1 Fancutt |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-64 7-5 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
pts | 91-79 | 91-79 | |
Total points | 170 | 170 | |
Winners | 40 | 40 | |
%Winners | 44% | 44% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 5 | 5 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 49/77 | 49/77 | |
% 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
1st pts | 40/49 | 40/49 | |
% 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
2nd pts | 16/28 | 16/28 | |
% 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 2 | 2 | |
Converted | 2/10 | 2/10 | |
Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Tkemaladze | |||
Q1 Kumar Mukund |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
pts | 80-68 | 80-68 | |
Total points | 148 | 148 | |
Winners | 34 | 34 | |
%Winners | 43% | 43% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 3 | 3 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 52/70 | 52/70 | |
% 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
1st pts | 34/52 | 34/52 | |
% 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
% 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
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