Alafia Ayeni and Yusuke Takahashi will square off in the qualifications of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 8. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yusuke Takahashi who should win in 3 sets.
Yusuke Takahashi -> 1.727
Alafia Ayeni -> 2.02
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Prediction and head to head Alafia Ayeni vs. Yusuke Takahashi
This will be the 4th time that Alafia Ayeni and Yusuke Takahashi play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Takahashi (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Takahashi won 6-3 6-3 in the qualifications in the Zhangjiagang Challenger back in August 2024.
Alafia Ayeni
29 - 29win/loss
482
395
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-29 | 24-19 | 6-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-22 | 17-13 | 1-3 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-19 | 22-15 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-20 | 12-10 | 3-2 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2020 | 5-7 | 3-3 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 474, Alafia got to the qualifications after beating Andrea Picchione 1-6 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications against Picchione, The American recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-2 6-2). During the match, Ayeni scored 78 points vs Picchione’s 68. The American was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ayeni struck 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Alafia Ayeni lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Ayeni put 55% of his first serves in, winning 79% (30/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (13/31) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Picchione 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Ayeni has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 52% of his matches (171-158). 23-19 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Ayeni has a composed112-102 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
Ayeni’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 San Diego and M25 Astana.
Alafia has an aggregate 29-29 win-loss record in 2024, 23-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-26 | 23-23 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 33-28 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-22 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-23 | 18-21 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 521, Yusuke got to the qualifications after defeating Masamichi Imamura 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Imamura (6-4 6-1). During the match Takahashi scored 59 points vs Imamura’s 46. Takahashi was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Takahashi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Yusuke Takahashi conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Takahashi put 76% of his first serves in, winning 76% (28/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. Takahashi broke Imamura 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Yusuke has an aggregate 29-25 win-loss record in 2024, 23-22 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ayeni | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 17 |
| Pts | 78-68 | 59-46 |
| Total Points | 146 | 105 |
| Winners | 30 | 28 |
| %Winners | 38% | 47% |
Both Ayeni and Takahashi played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Alafia Ayeni dropped 1 set while Yusuke Takahashi hasn’t lost a set so far. Ayeni has played 1 set more than Takahashi (3 vs 2). Therefore, Ayeni played 6 games more than Takahashi. Ayeni scored 30 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese scored 28 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ayeni | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 1 |
| 1st in | 38/69 | 37/49 |
| %1st in | 55% | 76% |
| 1st pts | 30/38 | 28/37 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 13/31 | 6/12 |
| %2nd pts | 42% | 50% |
Ayeni fired 5 aces . Takahashi recorded 1 ace . Ayeni won 79% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Takahashi won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ayeni | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/12 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 33% | 57% |
| Conceded | 8 | 4 |
| Saved | 5 | 4 |
| % Saved | 63% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
The American broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Ayeni dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded. Yusuke broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Japanese was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.
| Ayeni | |||
| Q1 Picchione | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 1-6 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 78-68 | 78-68 | |
| Total points | 146 | 146 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 38/69 | 38/69 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 30/38 | 30/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/31 | 13/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | 4/12 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 5/8 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 63% | 63% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Takahashi | |||
| Q1 Imamura | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 59-46 | 59-46 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 37/49 | 37/49 | |
| % 1st in | 76% | 76% | |
| 1st pts | 28/37 | 28/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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