Yoshihito Nishioka and Shintaro Mochizuki will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. 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 Yoshihito Nishioka who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yoshihito Nishioka is the pick to win this match.
Yoshihito Nishioka -> 1.49
Shintaro Mochizuki -> 2.47

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Prediction and head to head Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Shintaro Mochizuki

There is no head to head record between Yoshihito Nishioka and Shintaro Mochizuki since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Yoshihito Nishioka

Ranked no. 70, the Japanese got to the 2^nd round after defeating Hiroki Moriya 6-4 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Yoshihito had a good straight sets win against Moriya (6-4 6-3). During the match, Nishioka scored 63 points vs Moriya’s 49. Nishioka was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Regarding the service games, Nishioka bagged 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Yoshihito Nishioka lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Nishioka put 52% of his first serves in, winning 78% (21/27) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Moriya 5 times after converting 38% of his break points (5/13).

Nishioka has winning record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (313-222). 17-15 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Nishioka has an overall 194-127 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the year was winning the title in Atlanta where he defeated Jordan Thompson in the final 4-6 7-6(2) 6-2.

Nishioka has a compiled 29-24 win-loss record in 2024, 17-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger

Yoshihito has never competed in this tournament before.

Shintaro Mochizuki

Ranked no. 248, the Japanese got to the 2^nd round after defeating James McCabe 7-5 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against McCabe (7-5 6-4). During the match Mochizuki scored 84 points vs McCabe’s 66. The Japanese was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.

About the serving games, Mochizuki scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Shintaro Mochizuki lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Mochizuki put 60% of his first serves in, winning 69% (29/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke McCabe 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).

The Japanese has a compiled 27-32 win-loss record in 2024, 18-21 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Nishioka	Mochizuki
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	22
Pts	63-49	84-66
Total Points	112	150
Winners	21	29
%Winners	33%	35%

Both Nishioka and Mochizuki played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Nishioka and Mochizuki have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Nishioka played 3 games less than Mochizuki. Nishioka scored 21 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese bagged 29 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Nishioka	Mochizuki
Aces	2	1
Avg per match	2	1
1st in	27/52	42/70
%1st in	52%	60%
1st pts	21/27	29/42
%1st pts	78%	69%
2nd pts	12/25	14/28
%2nd pts	48%	50%

Nishioka blasted 2 aces . Mochizuki made 1 ace . Nishioka won 78% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Mochizuki won 69% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Nishioka	Mochizuki
Won	5	5
Converted	5/13	5/6
% Converted	38%	83%
Conceded	2	9
Saved	0	6
% Saved	0%	67%
Times Broken	2	3

Yoshihito broke his opponent 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. Nishioka lost his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Shintaro broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Nishioka
	R1 Moriya	Total
Score	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	63-49	63-49
Total points	112	112
Winners	21	21
%Winners	33%	33%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	27/52	27/52
% 1st in	52%	52%
1st pts	21/27	21/27
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	12/25	12/25
% 2nd pts	48%	48%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/13	5/13
Converted %	38%	38%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	0/2	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	2	2

Mochizuki
	R1 McCabe	Total
Score	7-5 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	84-66	84-66
Total points	150	150
Winners	29	29
%Winners	35%	35%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	42/70	42/70
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	29/42	29/42
% 1st pts	69%	69%
2nd pts	14/28	14/28
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/6	5/6
Converted %	83%	83%
Conceded	9	9
Saved	6/9	6
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	3	3

Tennis Scores in Yokkaichi Challenger

• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Rei SakamotoSakamoto – Philip HenningHenning (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Benjamin HassanHassan – Jakub PaulPaul (6-3 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Ryotaro TaguchiTaguchi (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (2-6 7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Philip SekulicSekulic – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Petr Bar BiryukovBar Biryukov – Yaroslav DeminDemin (7-6³ 7-6⁸) – See score progression
• Christoph NegrituNegritu – Mattia BellucciBellucci (6-7¹ 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Yua TakaTaka (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – James McCabeMcCabe (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Elias YmerYmer – Alexey ZakharovZakharov (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Omar JasikaJasika – Kris Van WykVan Wyk (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Federico CinaCina – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Dane SweenySweeny (7-6¹⁰ 6-2) – See score progression
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Kokoro IsomuraIsomura (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Elias YmerYmer – Alexey ZakharovZakharov (7-6(5) 6-4) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Yua TakaTaka (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Petr Bar BiryukovBar Biryukov – Yaroslav DeminDemin (7-6(3) 7-6(8)) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elias YmerYmer – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Omar JasikaJasika – Benjamin HassanHassan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction