Zura Tkemaladze and Yuki Mochizuki will square off in the qualifications of the Playford Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zura Tkemaladze who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Zura Tkemaladze is the pick to win this match.
Zura Tkemaladze -> 1.85
Yuki Mochizuki -> 1.87

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Prediction and head to head Zura Tkemaladze vs. Yuki Mochizuki

There is no head to head record between Zura Tkemaladze and Yuki Mochizuki since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Zura Tkemaladze

Ranked no. 717,he will start his run in the Playford Challenger after he played his last match in the Playford Challenger where he defeated 6-4 6-3 to Court in the qualifications on the 20^th of October.

Tkemaladze has a composed 23-25 win-loss record in 2024, 18-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Zura’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Tashkent.

Talking about his overall career, The Georgean has an overall 114-116 record. He has a positive 83-71 record on hard.

Previously in the Playford Challenger

The Georgean has never competed in this tournament before.

Yuki Mochizuki

Ranked no. 804, the Japanese got to the qualifications after beating Naoki Tajima 6-1 6-1.

In the qualifications, Mochizuki had a good straight sets win against Tajima (6-1 6-1). During the match Mochizuki scored 57 points vs Tajima’s 27. Yuki was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.

About the serving games, Mochizuki recorded 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Yuki Mochizuki was extremely efficient on serve to win 71% (17/24) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Yuki broke Tajima 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).

The Japanese has an overall 16-16 win-loss record in 2024, 11-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Tkemaladze	Mochizuki
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	14
Pts	70-53	57-27
Total Points	123	84
Winners	30	17
%Winners	43%	30%

Both Tkemaladze and Mochizuki played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Tkemaladze and Mochizuki have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Tkemaladze played 5 games more than Mochizuki. Tkemaladze scored 30 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Yuki recorded 17 winners (30%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Tkemaladze	Mochizuki
Aces	3	4
Avg per match	3	4
1st in	37/47	24/41
%1st in	79%	59%
1st pts	30/37	17/24
%1st pts	81%	71%
2nd pts	7/10	10/17
%2nd pts	70%	59%

Tkemaladze made 3 aces . Mochizuki scored 4 aces . Tkemaladze won 81% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Mochizuki won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Tkemaladze	Mochizuki
Won	3	6
Converted	3/8	6/8
% Converted	38%	75%
Conceded	1	3
Saved	1	2
% Saved	100%	67%
Times Broken	0	1

Zura broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Tkemaladze pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. Yuki broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Yuki conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Tkemaladze
	Total
Score
Tot Set	0
Tot Games	0
pts	0-0
Total points	0
Winners	0
%Winners	0%
SERVE
Aces	0
Double Faults	0
1st in	0/0
% 1st in	0%
1st pts	0/0
% 1st pts	%
2nd pts	0/0
% 2nd pts	0%
Breaks
Won	0
Converted	0/0
Converted %	0%
Conceded	0
Saved	0
Saved %	0%
Times Broken	0

Mochizuki
	Q1 Tajima	Total
Score	6-1 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	14	14
pts	57-27	57-27
Total points	84	84
Winners	17	17
%Winners	30%	30%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	24/41	24/41
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	17/24	17/24
% 1st pts	71%	71%
2nd pts	10/17	10/17
% 2nd pts	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/8	6/8
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

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