Elias Ymer and Kokoro Isomura will square off in the 2nd round of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elias Ymer who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elias Ymer is the pick to win this match.
Elias Ymer -> 1.26
Kokoro Isomura -> 3.55
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Prediction and head to head Elias Ymer vs. Kokoro Isomura
There is no head to head record between Elias Ymer and Kokoro Isomura since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Elias Ymer
20 - 28win/loss
315
105
WWLWLLLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-29 | 5-13 | 6-9 | 8-6 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-41 | 10-13 | 24-17 | 7-10 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-32 | 12-11 | 20-15 | 5-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-29 | 9-9 | 20-11 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-12 | 1-4 | 8-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 314, Ymer reached the 2nd round after defeating Rei Sakamoto 6-1 7-6(3).
In the 1st round, Elias had a good straight sets win against Sakamoto (6-1 7-63). During the match, Ymer scored 77 points vs Sakamoto’s 57. Elias was extremely aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ymer struck 5 aces and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults. Elias Ymer conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 5 break points. Furthermore, Ymer put 70% of his first serves in, winning 84% (43/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (10/22) on the 2nd serve. Elias broke Sakamoto twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Ymer has winning record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (316-283). 5-12 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Ymer has an aggregate 69-82 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Ymer’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Oeiras 4 Challenger.
Ymer has an overall 20-28 win-loss record in 2024, 5-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Elias has never competed in this tournament before.
Kokoro Isomura
38 - 22win/loss
449
449
LWWWWLWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-23 | 27-16 | 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. 502 (career-high), Isomura reached the 2nd round after defeating Yan Bai 7-6(5) 7-6(3), Takuya Kumasaka 7-6(5) 3-6 7-6(3) and Jurij Rodionov 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Isomura had a good straight sets win against Rodionov (6-4 6-3). During the match Isomura scored 69 points vs Rodionov’s 61. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Isomura wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 6 double faults. Kokoro Isomura conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 5 break points. Furthermore, Isomura put 54% of his first serves in, winning 68% (26/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 67% (22/33) on the 2nd serve. Kokoro broke Rodionov twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).
Kokoro’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Tsukuba and M25 Sapporo.
Isomura has a composed 38-22 win-loss record in 2024, 26-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ymer | Isomura |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 80 |
| Pts | 77-57 | 273-258 |
| Total Points | 134 | 531 |
| Winners | 43 | 109 |
| %Winners | 56% | 40% |
Ymer played 1 match while Isomura competed in 3 matches. Isomura started his run from the qualifications while Ymer had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Kokoro Isomura surrendered 1 set while Elias Ymer hasn’t lost a set so far. Ymer has played 5 set(s) less than Isomura (2 vs 7). Therefore, Ymer played 60 games less than Isomura. Elias scored 43 winners (56% of the total points). On the other side, Kokoro recorded 109 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ymer | Isomura |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 0 |
| 1st in | 51/73 | 162/263 |
| %1st in | 70% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 43/51 | 109/162 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 10/22 | 54/101 |
| %2nd pts | 45% | 53% |
Ymer recorded 5 aces . Isomura didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Ymer won 84% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Isomura won 67% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ymer | Isomura |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 10 |
| Converted | 2/6 | 10/22 |
| % Converted | 33% | 45% |
| Conceded | 5 | 25 |
| Saved | 5 | 16 |
| % Saved | 100% | 64% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 9 |
Elias broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. The Swede pretty solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 5 break points. The Japanese broke his opponents 10 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve 9 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ymer | |||
| R1 Sakamoto |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 77-57 | 77-57 | |
| Total points | 134 | 134 | |
| Winners | 43 | 43 | |
| %Winners | 56% | 56% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 51/73 | 51/73 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 43/51 | 43/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/22 | 10/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Isomura | |||||
| Q1 Bai |
Q3 Kumasaka |
R1 Rodionov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 7-63 | 7-65 3-6 7-63 | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 35 | 19 | 80 | |
| pts | 83-74 | 121-123 | 69-61 | 273-258 | |
| Total points | 157 | 244 | 130 | 531 | |
| Winners | 37 | 46 | 26 | 109 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 38% | 38% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 13 | 6 | 23 | |
| 1st in | 51/78 | 73/114 | 38/71 | 162/263 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 64% | 54% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 37/51 | 46/73 | 26/38 | 109/162 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 63% | 68% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/27 | 18/41 | 22/33 | 54/101 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 44% | 67% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 5/10 | 2/9 | 10/22 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 50% | 22% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 17 | 5 | 25 | |
| Saved | 0/3 | 11/17 | 5/5 | 16 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 65% | 100% | 165% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 6 | 0 | 9 | |
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