Alexander Blockx and Kasidit Samrej will face off 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 COURT D. 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 Alexander Blockx who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alexander Blockx is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Blockx -> 1.25
Kasidit Samrej -> 3.64

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Prediction and head to head Alexander Blockx vs. Kasidit Samrej

There is no head to head record between Alexander Blockx and Kasidit Samrej since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Alexander Blockx

Ranked no. 249, Blockx will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Matsuyama Challenger where he lost 7-6(5) 6-2 to Moreno De Alboran in the semifinal on the 9^th of November.

Alexander has an overall 26-23 win-loss record in 2024, 12-10 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Blockx’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Nottingham Challenger,the Hamburg Challenger,the Cordenons Challenger,M25 Koksijde,the Orleans Challenger and the Matsuyama Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Blockx has an overall 69-45 record. He has a positive 36-16 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in the Kobe Challenger

The Belgian has never competed in this tournament before.

Kasidit Samrej

Ranked no. 420 (career-high), Kasidit got to the 1^st

round after beating Rio Noguchi 3-6 7-5 6-4 and Jakub Paul 6-4 6-1.

In the qualifications, The Thai had a good straight sets win against Paul (6-4 6-1). During the match Samrej scored 61 points vs Paul’s 40. Kasidit was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Talking about serving, Samrej blasted 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Kasidit Samrej was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 71% (20/28) of his 1st serve and 68% (21/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Thai broke Paul 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Samrej started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

Samrej’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Nakhon Si Thammarat and M25 Nakhon Si Thammarat.

Samrej has an aggregate 38-21 win-loss record in 2024, 4-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger

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• Sho ShimabukuroSho – Chak Lam Coleman WongChak (7-6(5) 6-2) – See score progression

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