Jakub Paul and Keisuke Saitoh will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 5. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jakub Paul who should win in 2 sets.
Jakub Paul -> 1.39
Keisuke Saitoh -> 2.81
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Prediction and head to head Jakub Paul vs. Keisuke Saitoh
There is no head to head record between Jakub Paul and Keisuke Saitoh since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Jakub Paul
43 - 26win/loss
378
378
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 43-26 | 14-8 | 17-11 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-24 | 20-4 | 14-12 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2022 | 25-26 | 4-4 | 20-18 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 34-21 | 4-3 | 17-10 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2020 | 9-10 | 4-4 | 1-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 378 (career-high), Jakub got to the qualifications after defeating Asahi Yamanaka 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Jakub had a good straight sets win against Yamanaka (6-4 6-3). During the match, Paul scored 59 points vs Yamanaka’s 44. Jakub was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Paul scored 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Jakub Paul lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Paul put 82% of his first serves in, winning 68% (27/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (5/9) on the 2nd serve. Jakub broke Yamanaka 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Paul has a winning record in the last 8 years having won 56% of his matches (203-161). 14-8 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Paul has a compiled69-39 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
Jakub’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir,M25 Sarajevo and M25 Sion.
Paul has a compiled 43-26 win-loss record in 2024, 14-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger
Jakub has never competed in this tournament before.
Keisuke Saitoh
44 - 21win/loss
591
585
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 44-21 | 38-14 | 6-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-27 | 14-23 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-21 | 23-17 | 4-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-19 | 20-9 | 15-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-4 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 591, the Japanese got to the qualifications after beating Ji Sung Nam 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Sung Nam (6-1 6-3). During the match Saitoh scored 59 points vs Sung Nam’s 36. The Japanese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Saitoh scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Keisuke Saitoh lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Saitoh put 74% of his first serves in, winning 60% (25/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 73% (11/15) on the 2nd serve. Keisuke broke Sung Nam 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Keisuke’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Taipei and M25 Takasaki.
Saitoh has an aggregate 44-21 win-loss record in 2024, 38-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Paul | Saitoh |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 16 |
| Pts | 59-44 | 59-36 |
| Total Points | 103 | 95 |
| Winners | 27 | 25 |
| %Winners | 46% | 42% |
Both Paul and Saitoh played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Paul and Saitoh have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Paul played 3 games more than Saitoh. The Swiss scored 27 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese managed to score 25 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Paul | Saitoh |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
| 1st in | 40/49 | 42/57 |
| %1st in | 82% | 74% |
| 1st pts | 27/40 | 25/42 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 60% |
| 2nd pts | 5/9 | 11/15 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 73% |
Paul recorded 3 aces . Saitoh scored 1 ace . Paul won 68% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Saitoh won 60% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 73% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Paul | Saitoh |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/6 |
| % Converted | 63% | 83% |
| Conceded | 2 | 5 |
| Saved | 0 | 4 |
| % Saved | 0% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
The Swiss broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Jakub surrendered his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Saitoh broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Saitoh conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Paul | |||
| Q1 Yamanaka | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 59-44 | 59-44 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 40/49 | 40/49 | |
| % 1st in | 82% | 82% | |
| 1st pts | 27/40 | 27/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Saitoh | |||
| Q1 Sung Nam | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 59-36 | 59-36 | |
| Total points | 95 | 95 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 42/57 | 42/57 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 25/42 | 25/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 60% | 60% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/15 | 11/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 73% | 73% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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