Sofia Kenin and Aoi Ito will play each other in the 1st round of the Japan Open Tennis Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 2:30 pm on Center Court. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sofia Kenin who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sofia Kenin is the pick to win this match.
Sofia Kenin -> 1.42
Aoi Ito -> 2.86
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Prediction and head to head Sofia Kenin vs. Aoi Ito
There is no head to head record between Sofia Kenin and Aoi Ito since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Sofia Kenin
10 - 23win/loss
162
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LLWLWLWLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-23 | 4-14 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-21 | 17-12 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-17 | 7-14 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-10 | 7-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 12-6 | 6-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 162, the American will start her run in Osaka after she played her last match in Wuhan where she lost 6-1 4-6 6-4 to Alexandrova in the 1st round on the 8th of October.
Sofia has an aggregate 10-23 win-loss record in 2024, 4-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Kenin has an overall 267-188 record. She has a positive 160-109 record on hard.
Previously in Osaka
Kenin has never competed in this tournament before.
Aoi Ito
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 53-21 | 45-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 8-2 |
| 2023 | 50-29 | 44-22 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 3-2 | 3-4 |
| 2022 | 26-11 | 17-6 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 5-1 | 4-2 |
| 2021 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 191 (career-high), Ito reached the 1st round after defeating Emina Bektas 6-3 6-4 and Arianne Hartono 3-6 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications against Hartono, The Japanese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Ito scored 91 points vs Hartono’s 87. Aoi was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Ito couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Aoi Ito lost the serve 7 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Ito put 77% of her first serves in, winning 50% (34/68) of the points behind her 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Hartono 8 times after converting 67% of her break points (8/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ito started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points she played.
Her best result of the current year was winning the title the W50 Nanao where she overcame Ayano Shimizu in the final 6-2 6-1.
Ito has a compiled 53-21 win-loss record in 2024, 45-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Osaka
Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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