Katie Boulter and Kyoka Okamura will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on Centre Court. 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 Katie Boulter who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Katie Boulter is the pick to win this match.
Katie Boulter -> 1.047
Kyoka Okamura -> 10.25
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Prediction and head to head Katie Boulter vs. Kyoka Okamura
This will be the 2nd time that Katie Boulter and Kyoka Okamura face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Boulter (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Boulter won 6-2 6-4 in the qualifications in the W25 Canberra back in 2020.
Katie Boulter
31 - 20win/loss
24
23
LWWLWWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-23 | 24-12 | 3-6 | 3-2 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-20 | 22-12 | 1-1 | 3-3 | 10-4 | 4-0 |
| 2022 | 29-18 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 16-7 | 9-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-15 | 12-9 | 5-1 | 7-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-8 | 10-6 | 1-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 33, Boulter got to the 2nd round after defeating Priscilla Hon 6-1 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Hon (6-1 6-4). During the match, Boulter scored 59 points vs Hon’s 42. Boulter was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Boulter scored 4 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Katie Boulter lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Boulter put 65% of her first serves in, winning 73% (27/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 45% (9/20) on the 2nd serve. The Brit was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Hon 5 times.
Boulter has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of her matches (270-162). 18-10 on hard in 2024. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Boulter has an aggregate 134-94 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the year was winning the title in San Diego where she beat Marta Kostyuk in the final 5-7 6-2 6-2 and in Nottingham where she overcame Karolina Pliskova in the final 4-6 6-3 6-2.
Katie has an overall 30-20 win-loss record in 2024, 18-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
The Brit has never competed in this tournament before.
Kyoka Okamura
38 - 29win/loss
225
223
LWWLLWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 46-34 | 43-32 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2023 | 34-30 | 26-24 | 0-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 4-2 |
| 2022 | 31-27 | 24-21 | 0-2 | 5-2 | 0-1 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 12-24 | 6-13 | 6-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-12 | 3-7 | 5-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 271, Okamura reached the 2nd round after beating Shiho Akita 6-4 6-0 and Hailey Baptiste 7-6(4) 6-3.
In the 1st round, Kyoka had a good straight sets win against Baptiste (7-64 6-3). During the match Okamura scored 75 points vs Baptiste’s 61. Kyoka was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Okamura made 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Kyoka Okamura was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (31/41) of her 1st serve and 76% (19/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Baptiste twice after converting 33% of her break points (2/6).
Okamura’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the W35 Taipei and the W35 Nakhon Si Thammarat.
Kyoka has a composed 38-28 win-loss record in 2024, 35-26 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Boulter | Okamura |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 38 |
| Pts | 59-42 | 142-102 |
| Total Points | 101 | 244 |
| Winners | 27 | 54 |
| %Winners | 46% | 38% |
Boulter played 1 match while Okamura competed in 2 matches. Okamura started her run from the qualifications while Boulter had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Boulter has played 2 set(s) less than Okamura (2 vs 4). Therefore, Boulter played 21 games less than Okamura. The Brit scored 27 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese scored 54 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Boulter | Okamura |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 3 |
| 1st in | 37/57 | 68/116 |
| %1st in | 65% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 27/37 | 54/68 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 9/20 | 33/48 |
| %2nd pts | 45% | 69% |
Boulter made 4 aces . Okamura struck 6 aces (3 per match). Boulter won 73% points on her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Okamura won 79% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 69% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Boulter | Okamura |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/5 | 6/15 |
| % Converted | 100% | 40% |
| Conceded | 2 | 7 |
| Saved | 1 | 6 |
| % Saved | 50% | 86% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
The Brit broke her opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Brit lost her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. The Japanese broke her opponents 6 times with a 40% conversion rate. Okamura conceded her serve once and she saved 86% of the break points that she conceded.
| Boulter | |||
| R1 Hon |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 59-42 | 59-42 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 37/57 | 37/57 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 27/37 | 27/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/20 | 9/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/5 | 5/5 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Okamura | |||||
| Q1 Akita |
Q3 Baptiste |
R1 Baptiste |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-0 | 6-3 7-5 | 7-64 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 21 | 22 | 59 | |
| pts | 67-41 | 61-75 | 75-61 | 203-177 | |
| Total points | 108 | 136 | 136 | 380 | |
| Winners | 23 | 24 | 31 | 78 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 39% | 41% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 27/50 | 36/70 | 41/66 | 104/186 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 51% | 62% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 23/27 | 24/36 | 31/41 | 78/104 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 67% | 76% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 21/34 | 19/25 | 54/82 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 62% | 76% | 66% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 1/3 | 2/6 | 7/18 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 33% | 33% | 39% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 6 | 3 | 13 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4/6 | 2/3 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 67% | 67% | 234% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katie BoulterBoulter – Kyoka OkamuraOkamura (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (2-2) – H2H and prediction
