Alex Bolt and Hiroki Moriya will face off in the 1st round of the Kobe Challenger for the 7th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT C. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Bolt who should win in 3 sets.
Alex Bolt -> 1.52
Hiroki Moriya -> 2.4
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Prediction and head to head Alex Bolt vs. Hiroki Moriya
This will be the 7th time that Alex Bolt and Hiroki Moriya square off. The head to head is 4-2 for Bolt (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they fought against each other, Bolt won 7-6(4) 6-4 in the semifinal in M25 Traralgon back in March 2024.
Alex Bolt
47 - 24win/loss
157
125
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 48-26 | 26-21 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 21-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-22 | 22-17 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-10 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-18 | 7-6 | 0-7 | 2-2 | 10-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-12 | 12-8 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 160, Bolt will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Matsuyama Challenger where he lost 7-6(4) 6-2 to Moreno De Alboran in the final on the 10th of November.
Alex has a compiled 47-24 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
Alex’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Burnie 1 Challenger,M25 Traralgon,M25 Mildura,M25 Swan Hill and the Matsuyama Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Bolt has an overall 338-246 record. He has a positive 4-3 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2017. See his history.
Hiroki Moriya
36 - 30win/loss
397
143
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-32 | 36-28 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-28 | 31-27 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-30 | 18-19 | 0-0 | 7-9 | 1-1 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 22-28 | 13-17 | 0-0 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2020 | 7-15 | 5-5 | 1-2 | 0-7 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 386, Hiroki got to the 1st round after defeating Andrea Picchione 7-5 3-6 6-3 and Nikoloz Basilashvili 3-6 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications against Basilashvili, The Japanese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-5 6-3). During the match Moriya scored 101 points vs Basilashvili’s 95. Moriya was very aggressive to blast 49 winners.
Talking about serving, Moriya scored 5 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Hiroki Moriya lost the serve 3 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Moriya put 64% of his first serves in, winning 69% (49/71) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (19/40) on the 2nd serve. Moriya broke Basilashvili 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Hiroki started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Moriya’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Traralgon,M25 Takasaki and M25 Cairns.
Moriya has a compiled 36-30 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2018 and 2019. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger
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- Alexander BlockxBlockx – Kasidit SamrejSamrej (7-63 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mattia BellucciBellucci – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (7-61 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Benjamin HassanHassan – Omar JasikaJasika (4-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (7-63 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Rei SakamotoSakamoto (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Marc PolmansPolmans (7-5 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Elias YmerYmer (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Guy Den OudenDen Ouden (6-3 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James McCabeMcCabe – Matteo GiganteGigante (2-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (7-64 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matej DodigDodig – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (6-4 6-74 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong (7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Li TuTu – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-1 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Alex BoltBolt (2-4) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Tung-Lin WuWu (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Li TuTu – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin HassanHassan – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Jurij RodionovRodionov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction