Takuya Kumasaka and Kokoro Isomura will square off in the qualifications of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kokoro Isomura who should win in 3 sets.
Kokoro Isomura -> 1.86
Takuya Kumasaka -> 1.86
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Prediction and head to head Takuya Kumasaka vs. Kokoro Isomura
This will be the 2nd time that Takuya Kumasaka and Kokoro Isomura square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Isomura (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Isomura won 6-3 3-6 7-6(2) in the 2nd round in M15 Kuching back in 2023.
Takuya Kumasaka
30 - 18win/loss
478
476
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-21 | 28-18 | 2-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-24 | 18-12 | 15-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-14 | 22-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-8 | 8-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 506 (career-high), the Japanese reached the qualifications after beating Kris Van Wyk 6-4 6-0.
In the qualifications, Kumasaka had a good straight sets win against Van Wyk (6-4 6-0). During the match, Kumasaka scored 58 points vs Van Wyk’s 32. Kumasaka was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kumasaka scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults. Overall, Takuya Kumasaka was exceptionally effective on serve to win 77% (20/26) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Van Wyk 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Kumasaka has a winning match record in the last 6 years having won 57% of his matches (107-80). 28-16 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kumasaka has an aggregate85-59 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
The Japanese’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir and M25 Sapporo.
The Japanese has an aggregate 30-18 win-loss record in 2024, 28-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Kokoro Isomura
36 - 22win/loss
452
449
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-24 | 27-17 | 6-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-30 | 25-29 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-16 | 7-9 | 17-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-8 | 4-2 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 510 (career-high), Kokoro got to the qualifications after defeating Yan Bai 7-6(5) 7-6(3).
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Bai (7-65 7-63). During the match Isomura scored 83 points vs Bai’s 74. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 37 winners.
About the serving games, Isomura couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Kokoro Isomura was very efficient on serve to win 73% (37/51) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Kokoro was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Bai 3 times.
Isomura’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Tsukuba and M25 Sapporo.
The Japanese has an aggregate 36-22 win-loss record in 2024, 24-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kumasaka | Isomura |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 26 |
| Pts | 58-32 | 83-74 |
| Total Points | 90 | 157 |
| Winners | 20 | 37 |
| %Winners | 34% | 45% |
Both Kumasaka and Isomura played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kumasaka and Isomura have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kumasaka played 10 games less than Isomura. Kumasaka scored 20 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Isomura struck 37 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kumasaka | Isomura |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 0 |
| 1st in | 26/43 | 51/78 |
| %1st in | 60% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 20/26 | 37/51 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 14/27 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 52% |
Kumasaka blasted 1 ace . Isomura didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Kumasaka won 77% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Isomura won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kumasaka | Isomura |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 3/3 |
| % Converted | 56% | 100% |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 |
| Saved | 2 | 0 |
| % Saved | 67% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Takuya broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Takuya surrendered his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Kokoro conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kumasaka | |||
| Q1 Van | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 58-32 | 58-32 | |
| Total points | 90 | 90 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 26/43 | 26/43 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 20/26 | 20/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 11/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Isomura | |||
| Q1 Bai | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 83-74 | 83-74 | |
| Total points | 157 | 157 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 51/78 | 51/78 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 37/51 | 37/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/27 | 14/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 0/3 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
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