Benjamin Hassan and Jakub Paul will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 7. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Benjamin Hassan who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Benjamin Hassan is the pick to win this match.
Benjamin Hassan -> 1.57
Jakub Paul -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Benjamin Hassan vs. Jakub Paul
This will be the 2nd time that Benjamin Hassan and Jakub Paul play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Hassan (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Hassan won 6-4 6-3 in the quarter in the Brest Challenger back in October 2024.
Benjamin Hassan
36 - 38win/loss
232
143
LWWWLWWLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-38 | 6-11 | 20-16 | 9-9 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 57-33 | 11-6 | 35-20 | 10-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-29 | 7-3 | 21-16 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 21-23 | 2-2 | 17-16 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 232, the Lebanese will start his run in the Yokkaichi Challenger after he played his last match in the Yokohama Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-3 to Shimizu in the semifinal on the 22nd of November.
Benjamin has an overall 36-38 win-loss record in 2024, 6-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Hassan’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Girona Challenger,the Bonn Challenger,the Brest Challenger and the Yokohama Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Lebanese has an overall 277-193 record. He has a positive 50-35 record on hard.
Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger
Hassan has never competed in this tournament before.
Jakub Paul
44 - 26win/loss
372
372
WWLWWLWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 44-26 | 15-8 | 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. 372 (career-high), Jakub got to the 1st round after defeating Asahi Yamanaka 6-4 6-3 and Keisuke Saitoh 7-6(3) 7-6(2).
In the qualifications, The Swiss had a good straight sets win against Saitoh (7-63 7-62). During the match Paul scored 89 points vs Saitoh’s 80. Jakub was pretty aggressive to blast 47 winners.
About the serving games, Paul bagged 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Jakub Paul lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Paul put 71% of his first serves in, winning 73% (47/64) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (12/26) on the 2nd serve. Paul broke Saitoh 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Swiss started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 54% of the points he played.
Paul’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Monastir,M25 Sarajevo and M25 Sion.
Paul has a compiled 44-26 win-loss record in 2024, 15-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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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
