Shintaro Mochizuki and Ryuki Matsuda will square off in the 2^nd round of the Playford Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on COURT 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Shintaro Mochizuki who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Shintaro Mochizuki is the pick to win this match.
Shintaro Mochizuki -> 1.146
Ryuki Matsuda -> 4.95

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Prediction and head to head Shintaro Mochizuki vs. Ryuki Matsuda

There is no head to head record between Shintaro Mochizuki and Ryuki Matsuda since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Shintaro Mochizuki

Ranked no. 245, the Japanese reached the 2^nd round after defeating Aleksandre Bakshi 7-5 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Shintaro had a good straight sets win against Bakshi (7-5 6-3). During the match, Mochizuki scored 73 points vs Bakshi’s 55. The Japanese was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about the service games, Mochizuki made 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Shintaro Mochizuki lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Mochizuki put 66% of his first serves in, winning 78% (29/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Bakshi 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).

Mochizuki has a winning match record in the last 7 years having won 53% of his matches (169-147). 13-17 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Mochizuki has an aggregate90-80 match record in the last 7 years on hard.

Shintaro has an aggregate 22-27 win-loss record in 2024, 13-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Playford Challenger

Shintaro has never competed in this tournament before.

Ryuki Matsuda

Ranked no. 569, the Japanese reached the 2^nd round after beating Scott Jones 6-4 6-2, Alexander Klintcharov 6-2 3-6 6-1 and Ajeet Rai 3-6 6-2 6-2.

In the 1^st round against Rai, The Japanese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-2 6-2). During the match Matsuda scored 95 points vs Rai’s 84. Ryuki was pretty aggressive to blast 42 winners.

Talking about serving, Matsuda made 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ryuki Matsuda lost the serve 3 times and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Matsuda put 73% of his first serves in, winning 58% (42/72) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (17/26) on the 2nd serve. Ryuki broke Rai 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Ryuki’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Monastir and M15 Harmon.

The Japanese has an aggregate 33-28 win-loss record in 2024, 33-28 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Mochizuki	Matsuda
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	8
Tot Games	21	67
Pts	73-55	257-209
Total Points	128	466
Winners	29	103
%Winners	40%	40%

Mochizuki played 1 match while Matsuda competed in 3 matches. Matsuda started his run from the qualifications while Mochizuki had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Ryuki Matsuda conceded 2 sets while Shintaro Mochizuki hasn’t lost a set so far. Mochizuki has played 6 set(s) less than Matsuda (2 vs 8). Therefore, Mochizuki played 46 games less than Matsuda. Shintaro scored 29 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Matsuda blasted 103 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Mochizuki	Matsuda
Aces	5	5
Avg per match	5	1.7
1st in	37/56	164/232
%1st in	66%	71%
1st pts	29/37	103/164
%1st pts	78%	63%
2nd pts	9/19	47/68
%2nd pts	47%	69%

Mochizuki blasted 5 aces . Matsuda managed to score 5 aces (1.7 per match). Mochizuki won 78% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Matsuda won 63% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Mochizuki	Matsuda
Won	5	13
Converted	5/11	13/27
% Converted	45%	48%
Conceded	3	22
Saved	1	17
% Saved	33%	77%
Times Broken	2	5

Mochizuki broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Mochizuki lost his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Matsuda broke his opponents 13 times with a 48% conversion rate. Ryuki conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 77% of the break points that he conceded.

Mochizuki
	R1 Bakshi	Total
Score	7-5 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	73-55	73-55
Total points	128	128
Winners	29	29
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	37/56	37/56
% 1st in	66%	66%
1st pts	29/37	29/37
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	9/19	9/19
% 2nd pts	47%	47%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/11	5/11
Converted %	45%	45%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	1/3	1
Saved %	33%	33%
Times Broken	2	2

Matsuda
	Q1 Jones	Q3 Klintcharov	R1 Rai	Total
Score	6-4 6-2	6-2 3-6 6-1	3-6 6-2 6-2
Tot Set	2	3	3	8
Tot Games	18	24	25	67
pts	63-45	99-80	95-84	257-209
Total points	108	179	179	466
Winners	21	40	42	103
%Winners	33%	40%	44%	40%
SERVE
Aces	2	1	2	5
Double Faults	0	0	1	1
1st in	31/50	61/84	72/98	164/232
% 1st in	62%	73%	73%	71%
1st pts	21/31	40/61	42/72	103/164
% 1st pts	68%	66%	58%	63%
2nd pts	14/19	16/23	17/26	47/68
% 2nd pts	74%	70%	65%	69%
Breaks
Won	4	4	5	13
Converted	4/6	4/11	5/10	13/27
Converted %	67%	36%	50%	48%
Conceded	2	7	13	22
Saved	1/2	6/7	10/13	17
Saved %	50%	86%	77%	213%
Times Broken	1	1	3	5

Tennis Scores in Playford Challenger

• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Blake MottMott (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Philip SekulicSekulic – Tibo ColsonColson (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Christian LangmoLangmo – Pavle MarinkovMarinkov (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Colin SinclairSinclair (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda – Ajeet RaiRai (3-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Omar JasikaJasika – Takuya KumasakaKumasaka (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Thomas FancuttFancutt – Edward WinterWinter (7-5 7-6²) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Shintaro ImaiImai – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Zura TkemaladzeTkemaladze (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Emile HuddHudd (7-6⁴ 7-6²) – See score progression
• Dane SweenySweeny – Blake EllisEllis (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Moerani BouzigeBouzige – Jacob BradshawBradshaw (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Aleksandre BakshiBakshi (7-5 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Li TuTu – (4-1) – H2H and prediction
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Shintaro ImaiImai (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Christian LangmoLangmo – Omar JasikaJasika (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Thomas FancuttFancutt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Dane SweenySweeny (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda – (0-0) – H2H and prediction