Bu Yunchaokete and Elias Ymer will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Kobe Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Bu Yunchaokete who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Bu Yunchaokete is the pick to win this match.
Bu Yunchaokete -> 1.36
Elias Ymer -> 2.94

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Prediction and head to head Bu Yunchaokete vs. Elias Ymer

There is no head to head record between Bu Yunchaokete and Elias Ymer since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Bu Yunchaokete

Ranked no. 67 (career-high), the Chinese will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in Metz where he lost 6-7(6) 6-2 6-4 to Michelsen in the quarter on the 7^th of November.

Bu has an aggregate 50-26 win-loss record in 2024, 6-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the season was winning the title the Wuxi Challenger where he overcame Egor Gerasimov in the final 6-4 6-1 and the Granby Challenger where he beat Terence Atmane in the final 6-3 6-7(7) 6-4.

Talking about his overall career, Yunchaokete has an overall 175-81 record. He has a flat 12-12 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in the Kobe Challenger

The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.

Elias Ymer

Ranked no. 315, Ymer got to the 1^st round after defeating Hikaru Shiraishi 6-4 7-5 and Masamichi Imamura 6-4 6-1.

In the qualifications, Elias had a good straight sets win against Imamura (6-4 6-1). During the match Ymer scored 67 points vs Imamura’s 48. The Swede was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.

About the serving games, Ymer fired 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Elias Ymer was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (19/26) of his 1st serve and 59% (13/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Swede broke Imamura 5 times after converting 33% of his break points (5/15).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Swede started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 57% of the points he played.

The Swede’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Oeiras 4 Challenger.

Ymer has a composed 22-29 win-loss record in 2024, 8-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger

• Tung-Lin WuWu – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (7-6⁴ 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Li TuTu – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-1 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sho ShimabukuroSho – Chak Lam Coleman WongChak (7-6(5) 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Alex BoltBolt (2-4) – H2H and prediction
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Constant LestienneLestienne – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Taro DanielDaniel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Benjamin HassanHassan – Omar JasikaJasika (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jurij RodionovRodionov – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Kasidit SamrejSamrej – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Elias YmerYmer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Terence AtmaneAtmane – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (0-0) – H2H and prediction