Li Tu and Elias Ymer will play 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 COURT 7. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Li Tu who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Li Tu is the pick to win this match.
Li Tu -> 1.6
Elias Ymer -> 2.22

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Prediction and head to head Li Tu vs. Elias Ymer

There is no head to head record between Li Tu and Elias Ymer since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Li Tu

Ranked no. 172 (career-high), the Australian reached the 2^nd round after beating Yua Taka 6-2 6-3.

In the 1^st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Taka (6-2 6-3). During the match, Tu scored 63 points vs Taka’s 43. The Australian was very aggressive to blast 17 winners.

Talking about the service games, Tu made 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Li Tu was extremely efficient on serve to win 74% (17/23) of his 1st serve and 74% (17/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Li broke Taka 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).

Tu has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 65% of his matches (171-92). 36-20 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Tu has an overall127-59 record in the last 5 years on hard.

Li’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Traralgon,the Lexington Challenger and the Yokohama Challenger.

Tu has a composed 42-27 win-loss record in 2024, 36-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger

Elias Ymer

Ranked no. 315, Elias got to the 2^nd round after beating Alexey Zakharov 7-6(5) 6-4

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In the 1^st round, The Swede had a good straight sets win against Zakharov (7-6⁵ 6-4). During the match Ymer and Zakharov scored the same amount of points (72). However, the world no. 172 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Swede was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Talking about serving, Ymer recorded 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Elias Ymer was very efficient on serve to win 73% (38/52) of his 1st serve and 52% (17/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Swede broke Zakharov twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Ymer’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Oeiras 4 Challenger.

The Swede has a compiled 24-31 win-loss record in 2024, 7-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger

The Swede has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Tu	Ymer
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	23
Pts	63-43	72-72
Total Points	106	144
Winners	17	38
%Winners	27%	53%

Both Tu and Ymer played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Tu and Ymer have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Tu played 6 games less than Ymer. The Australian scored 17 winners (27% of the total points). On the other side, The Swede managed to score 38 winners (53%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Tu	Ymer
Aces	5	2
Avg per match	5	2
1st in	23/46	52/85
%1st in	50%	61%
1st pts	17/23	38/52
%1st pts	74%	73%
2nd pts	17/23	17/33
%2nd pts	74%	52%

Tu made 5 aces . Ymer made 2 aces . Tu won 74% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 74% of the points. On the other side, Ymer won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Tu	Ymer
Won	4	2
Converted	4/12	2/3
% Converted	33%	67%
Conceded	1	8
Saved	0	7
% Saved	0%	88%
Times Broken	1	1

The Australian broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Australian lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Elias broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. The Swede conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.

Tu
	R1 Taka	Total
Score	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	63-43	63-43
Total points	106	106
Winners	17	17
%Winners	27%	27%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	23/46	23/46
% 1st in	50%	50%
1st pts	17/23	17/23
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	17/23	17/23
% 2nd pts	74%	74%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/12	4/12
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

Ymer
	R1 Zakharov	Total
Score	7-65 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	23	23
pts	72-72	72-72
Total points	144	144
Winners	38	38
%Winners	53%	53%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	52/85	52/85
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	38/52	38/52
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	17/33	17/33
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/3	2/3
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	7/8	7
Saved %	88%	88%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Yokkaichi Challenger

• 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
• 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
• Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Dane SweenySweeny (7-6¹⁰ 6-2) – See score progression
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Kokoro IsomuraIsomura (6-0 6-1) – 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
• 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