Rio Noguchi and Yusuke Takahashi will play each other in the 1st round of the Shenzhen Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rio Noguchi who should win in 3 sets.
Rio Noguchi -> 1.44
Yusuke Takahashi -> 2.625
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Prediction and head to head Rio Noguchi vs. Yusuke Takahashi
This will be the 4th time that Rio Noguchi and Yusuke Takahashi fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Takahashi (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Noguchi won 0-6 6-2 6-0 in the qualifications in Tokyo back in 2022.
Rio Noguchi
40 - 26win/loss
286
201
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 41-30 | 36-21 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-31 | 12-18 | 2-7 | 2-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-22 | 41-10 | 9-9 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-26 | 18-18 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-12 | 5-6 | 0-3 | 3-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 260, Rio will start his run in the Shenzhen Challenger after he won the title in M25 Cairns after beating 6-7(5) 6-4 7-6(4) Ellis in the final.
The Japanese has an aggregate 40-26 win-loss record in 2024, 35-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Rio’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Swan Hill,the Jinan Challenger and M25 Cairns.
Noguchi won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 328-223 record. He has a positive 223-137 record on hard.
Previously in the Shenzhen Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. 518, the Japanese will start his run in the Shenzhen Challenger after he played his last match in the Hangzhou Challenger where he lost 4-6 7-6(1) 6-2
to Hsin in the 1st round on the 9th of October.Yusuke has a compiled 26-22 win-loss record in 2024, 22-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, Takahashi has an overall 217-194 record. He has a positive 182-160 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Shenzhen Challenger
- Mukund SasikumarSasikumar – Petr Bar BiryukovBar Biryukov (6-1 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yan BaiBai – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-4 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Billy HarrisHarris – Kasidit SamrejSamrej (6-4 6-71 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Xing Dao ChenDao Chen (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Linang XiaoXiao – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Yan BaiBai (0-4) – H2H and prediction
- Billy HarrisHarris – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rigele TeTe – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jie CuiCui – Adam WaltonWalton (0-0) – H2H and prediction