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

Katie Boulter

31 - 20win/loss

Hard
19-10
I Hard
1-1
Clay
3-6
Grass
8-3
Rank
24
High
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.

Tokyo
Boulter's Record

Kyoka Okamura

Kyoka Okamura

38 - 29win/loss

Hard
35-27
I Hard
0-1
Carpet
3-1
Rank
243
High
223
LWWLWWLWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 42-31 39-29 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)

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Previously in Tokyo

Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See her history.

Tokyo
Okamura's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

K.Boulter
K.Okamura
1h:16
1h:16
Time on court​
!
4h:45
4h:45
1h:16
1h:16
Last match​
1h:43
1h:43
1
1
Match played
!
3
3
17
17
Games Played​
59
59
2
2
Set played​​
6
6
59
59
Total points​
203
203
59
59
Avg point​
67.7
67.7
27
27
Winners
78
78
27
27
Avg Winners​
26
26
46%
46%
Ratio winners
38%
38%
-- Serve --
4
4
Aces
7
7
4
4
Avg Aces
2.3
2.3
3
3
Double Faults
5
5
3
3
Avg Double Faults
1.7
1.7
27/37
27/37
1st won total​
78/104
78/104
!
73%
73%
1st won %
!
75%
75%
9/20
9/20
2nd won total​
54/82
54/82
45%
45%
2nd won %
!
66%
66%
-- Break Points --
5/5
5/5
BP won
7/18
7/18
5/5
5/5
Avg BP won
2.3/6
2.3/6
!
100%
100%
Won
39%
39%
2
2
Conceded
13
13
2
2
Avg Conceded
4.3
4.3
1
1
Broken
3
3
1
1
Avg Broken
1
1
1
1
Saved
10
10

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

Tennis Scores in Tokyo

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