Philip Sekulic and Yusuke Takahashi will face off in the 1^st round of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 5. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Philip Sekulic who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Philip Sekulic is the pick to win this match.
Philip Sekulic -> 1.44
Yusuke Takahashi -> 2.625

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Prediction and head to head Philip Sekulic vs. Yusuke Takahashi

This will be the 4^th time that Philip Sekulic and Yusuke Takahashi fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Sekulic (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Sekulic won 6-1 7-5 in the qualifications in the New Delhi Challenger back in February 2024.

Philip Sekulic

Ranked no. 329, Philip will start his run in the Yokkaichi Challenger after he played his last match in the Yokohama Challenger where he lost 7-6(5) 6-3 to Tu in the 2^nd round on the 21^st of November.

The Australian has a compiled 32-30 win-loss record in 2024, 31-25 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The Australian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Wuxi Challenger,the Kachreti Challenger and M25 Cairns.

Talking about his overall career, Sekulic has an overall 108-87 record. He has a positive 93-70 record on hard.

Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger

The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.

Yusuke Takahashi

Ranked no. 523, Yusuke reached the 1^st round after beating Ryuki Tsutsumi 7-6(3) 6-1 and Petr Bar Biryukov 6-4 6-3.

In the qualifications, Takahashi had a good straight sets win against Bar Biryukov (6-4 6-3). During the match Takahashi scored 77 points vs Bar Biryukov’s 63. Takahashi was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Takahashi couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Yusuke Takahashi lost the serve twice and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Takahashi put 63% of his first serves in, winning 57% (27/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (18/28) on the 2nd serve. Takahashi broke Bar Biryukov 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Yusuke started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 57% of the points he played.

The Japanese has a compiled 31-27 win-loss record in 2024, 25-24 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3^rd round in 2019. See his history.

Tennis Scores in Yokkaichi Challenger

• Federico CinaCina – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Dane SweenySweeny (7-6¹⁰ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Kokoro IsomuraIsomura (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Omar JasikaJasika – Kris Van WykVan Wyk (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Christoph NegrituNegritu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elias YmerYmer – Alexey ZakharovZakharov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi – (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Benjamin HassanHassan – Jakub PaulPaul (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Masamichi ImamuraImamura – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Alafia AyeniAyeni (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Philip HenningHenning – (0-0) – H2H and prediction