Shintaro Mochizuki and Ji Sung Nam will face off in the 1st round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Shintaro Mochizuki who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Shintaro Mochizuki is the pick to win this match.
Shintaro Mochizuki -> 1.35
Ji Sung Nam -> 2.99
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Prediction and head to head Shintaro Mochizuki vs. Ji Sung Nam
There is no head to head record between Shintaro Mochizuki and Ji Sung Nam since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Shintaro Mochizuki
25 - 31win/loss
252
129
LLWWLLWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-31 | 16-20 | 7-5 | 0-1 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-33 | 22-16 | 13-8 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-34 | 18-17 | 13-12 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-30 | 11-10 | 18-11 | 5-7 | 1-1 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 20-14 | 14-12 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 252, Shintaro will start his run in the Yokohama Challenger after he played his last match in the Kobe Challenger where he lost 6-1 3-6 6-3 to Tu in the 1st round on the 11th of November.
Mochizuki has a compiled 25-31 win-loss record in 2024, 16-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 172-151 record. He has a positive 93-83 record on hard.
Previously in the Yokohama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
Ji Sung Nam
14 - 14win/loss
716
236
WWLLWWLLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-14 | 12-8 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 15-20 | 13-15 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-19 | 24-13 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 4-7 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 716, the Korean reached the 1st round after defeating Philip Henning 7-6(3) 3-6 7-5 and Naoki Nakagawa 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Ji had a good straight sets win against Nakagawa (6-3 6-3). During the match Sung Nam scored 62 points vs Nakagawa’s 45. Sung Nam was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Sung Nam wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Ji Sung Nam was pretty efficient on serve to win 93% (26/28) of his 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ji was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Nakagawa 3 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ji 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.
Ji has an overall 14-14 win-loss record in 2024, 12-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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WWLLWWLLLW Tennis Scores in Yokohama Challenger
- Li TuTu – Yaroslav DeminDemin (6-1 3-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Alex BoltBolt (7-66 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Lennon Roark JonesRoark Jones (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexey ZakharovZakharov – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Matej DodigDodig (6-4 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Dane SweenySweeny (6-3 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christoph NegrituNegritu – Constant LestienneLestienne (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elias YmerYmer – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Omar JasikaJasika – (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Benjamin HassanHassan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Jakub PaulPaul (1-0) – H2H and prediction
