Varvara Gracheva and Mai Hontama will square off in the 1st round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on SHOW COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Varvara Gracheva who should win in 2 sets.
Varvara Gracheva -> 1.39
Mai Hontama -> 2.99
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Prediction and head to head Varvara Gracheva vs. Mai Hontama
There is no head to head record between Varvara Gracheva and Mai Hontama since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Varvara Gracheva
27 - 25win/loss
66
39
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-28 | 13-15 | 15-10 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-30 | 23-18 | 7-6 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-32 | 7-11 | 12-14 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-31 | 11-10 | 7-10 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-14 | 5-7 | 4-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 68, the French player will start her run in Tokyo after she played her last match in the Hong Kong where she lost 6-4 6-3 to Tauson in the semifinal on the 5th of October.
The French player has a compiled 27-25 win-loss record in 2024, 11-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Varvara’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Paris and the Hong Kong.
Talking about her overall career, The French player has an overall 262-188 record. She has a flat 74-74 record on hard.
Previously in Tokyo
Gracheva has never competed in this tournament before.
Mai Hontama
31 - 32win/loss
157
105
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-34 | 28-27 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-28 | 38-18 | 6-5 | 9-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-25 | 25-15 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-15 | 32-12 | 8-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 126, the Japanese reached the 1st round after defeating Miyu Kato 6-3 6-3 and Ayano Shimizu 3-6 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications against Shimizu, Hontama recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Hontama scored 98 points vs Shimizu’s 96. Mai was pretty aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Hontama scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 7 double faults. Mai Hontama lost the serve 6 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Hontama put 65% of her first serves in, winning 61% (38/62) of the points behind her 1st serve and 32% (11/34) on the 2nd serve. Mai broke Shimizu 7 times after converting 37% of her break points (7/19).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Hontama 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.
Mai’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the W100 Tokyo and the W100 Gifu.
Hontama has an overall 31-32 win-loss record in 2024, 28-25 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Fernando YamacitaYamacita – Javier NaserNaser (1-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Harri HeliovaaraHeliovaara – Kevin KaczynskiKaczynski (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jelle SelsSels – Flemming PetersPeters (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stephan GerritsenGerritsen – Tillmann ErdboriesErdbories (5-7 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander ZhurbinZhurbin – Tim Van Der HorstVan Der Horst (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Patrik Niklas-SalminenNiklas-Salminen – Valentin GuentherGuenther (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriel DecampsDecamps – Daniil ZarichanskyyZarichanskyy (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sidane PontjodikromoPontjodikromo – Christian HirschmuellerHirschmueller (6-0 4-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Daniel De JongeDe Jonge (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denys KlokKlok – Stephan FransenFransen (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ryan NijboerNijboer – Guy Den HeijerDen Heijer (7-5 3-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Orlando LuzLuz – Niels LootsmaLootsma (1-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Mai HontamaHontama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zeynep SonmezSonmez – Magdalena FrechFrech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Sofia KeninKenin (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Nao HibinoHibino – Clara TausonTauson (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Mccartney KesslerKessler (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Priscilla HonHon (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Kyoka OkamuraOkamura – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Mei YamaguchiYamaguchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction