Taro Daniel and Kaichi Uchida will face off in the 1st round of the Kobe Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taro Daniel who should win in 2 sets.
Taro Daniel -> 1.25
Kaichi Uchida -> 3.64
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Prediction and head to head Taro Daniel vs. Kaichi Uchida
There is no head to head record between Taro Daniel and Kaichi Uchida since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Taro Daniel
28 - 32win/loss
84
58
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-32 | 16-16 | 5-11 | 6-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-30 | 34-16 | 7-10 | 2-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-29 | 27-17 | 12-7 | 2-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-25 | 5-7 | 21-15 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-15 | 9-9 | 3-5 | 6-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 84, Daniel will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Seoul Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-4 to Basilashvili in the final on the 3rd of November.
The Japanese has an aggregate 28-32 win-loss record in 2024, 6-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Taipei 2 Challenger where he overcame Adam Walton in the final 6-4 7-5.
Talking about his overall career, Taro has an overall 568-412 record. He has a positive 48-36 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2015. See his history.
Kaichi Uchida
40 - 28win/loss
374
147
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 40-28 | 16-21 | 16-6 | 8-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-33 | 4-18 | 3-10 | 9-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-34 | 24-23 | 8-5 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-26 | 27-13 | 6-11 | 1-2 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-11 | 10-5 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 374, Uchida got to the 1st round after defeating Alexey Zakharov 7-6(4) 7-6(7) and Philip Sekulic 1-6 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications against Sekulic, The Japanese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Uchida scored 76 points vs Sekulic’s 74. The Japanese was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Uchida blasted 7 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Kaichi Uchida lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Uchida put 55% of his first serves in, winning 80% (33/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (16/33) on the 2nd serve. Uchida broke Sekulic 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kaichi started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
The Japanese’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Quillota,M25 Trelew,M15 Karuizawa and M25 Changwon.
Kaichi has a composed 40-28 win-loss record in 2024, 8-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022 and 2023. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger
- Li TuTu – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-1 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (7-64 4-6 6-2) – 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