Benoit Paire and Hiroki Moriya will play each other in the qualifications of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Benoit Paire who should win in 3 sets.
Benoit Paire -> 1.61
Hiroki Moriya -> 2.2
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Prediction and head to head Benoit Paire vs. Hiroki Moriya
There is no head to head record between Benoit Paire and Hiroki Moriya since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Benoit Paire
10 - 29win/loss
414
18
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-30 | 6-12 | 0-9 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-38 | 13-12 | 27-17 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-31 | 7-13 | 6-14 | 3-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 14-32 | 6-12 | 7-13 | 1-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-13 | 8-6 | 1-3 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 282, the French player got to the qualifications after defeating Kentaro Otsuka 6-1 6-0.
In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Otsuka (6-1 6-0). During the match, Paire scored 54 points vs Otsuka’s 26. Benoit was exceptionally aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Regarding the service games, Paire fired 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Benoit Paire was quite effective on serve to win 81% (17/21) of his 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Paire broke Otsuka 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Paire has won exactly 50% of his matches (294-299) in the last 10 years. 5-11 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Paire has a composed 95-112 record in the last years on hard.
Benoit has an aggregate 10-29 win-loss record in 2024, 5-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Hiroki Moriya
33 - 28win/loss
397
143
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-32 | 36-28 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-28 | 31-27 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-30 | 18-19 | 0-0 | 7-9 | 1-1 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 22-28 | 13-17 | 0-0 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2020 | 7-15 | 5-5 | 1-2 | 0-7 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 407, Moriya got to the qualifications after defeating Yusuke Kusuhara 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Kusuhara (6-4 7-5). During the match Moriya scored 75 points vs Kusuhara’s 65. The Japanese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Moriya managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Hiroki Moriya was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 73% (33/45) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Hiroki broke Kusuhara 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Moriya’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Traralgon,M25 Takasaki and M25 Cairns.
The Japanese has an overall 33-28 win-loss record in 2024, 33-25 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Paire | Moriya |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 22 |
| Pts | 54-26 | 75-65 |
| Total Points | 80 | 140 |
| Winners | 17 | 33 |
| %Winners | 31% | 44% |
Both Paire and Moriya played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Paire and Moriya have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Paire played 9 games less than Moriya. Benoit scored 17 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Hiroki fired 33 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Paire | Moriya |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 2 |
| 1st in | 21/36 | 45/67 |
| %1st in | 58% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 17/21 | 33/45 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 9/15 | 12/22 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 55% |
Paire made 7 aces . Moriya fired 2 aces . Paire won 81% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Moriya won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Paire | Moriya |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 3 |
| Converted | 6/9 | 3/9 |
| % Converted | 67% | 33% |
| Conceded | 0 | 3 |
| Saved | 0 | 2 |
| % Saved | 0% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Benoit broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. Benoit had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Hiroki broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Moriya conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Paire | |||
| Q1 Otsuka | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 54-26 | 54-26 | |
| Total points | 80 | 80 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 21/36 | 21/36 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 17/21 | 17/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/15 | 9/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Moriya | |||
| Q1 Kusuhara | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 75-65 | 75-65 | |
| Total points | 140 | 140 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 45/67 | 45/67 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 33/45 | 33/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 12/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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