Naoki Nakagawa and Rei Sakamoto 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 SUB-CENTRE. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rei Sakamoto who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Rei Sakamoto is the pick to win this match.
Rei Sakamoto -> 1.84
Naoki Nakagawa -> 1.88

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Prediction and head to head Naoki Nakagawa vs. Rei Sakamoto

There is no head to head record between Naoki Nakagawa and Rei Sakamoto since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Naoki Nakagawa

Ranked no. 384, Nakagawa reached the 2^nd round after defeating Dane Sweeny 7-6(10) 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Naoki had a good straight sets win against Sweeny (7-6¹⁰ 6-2). During the match, Nakagawa scored 77 points vs Sweeny’s 68. Nakagawa was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about the service games, Nakagawa made 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Naoki Nakagawa lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Nakagawa put 62% of his first serves in, winning 74% (32/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. Naoki broke Sweeny 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).

Nakagawa has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (282-182). 13-11 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Nakagawa has a composed 173-110 record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the season was winning the title the Columbus Challenger where he defeated James Kent Trotter in the final 7-6(8) 5-7 7-6(5).

Naoki has a composed 25-15 win-loss record in 2024, 13-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger

Rei Sakamoto

Ranked no. 682 (career-high), Sakamoto reached the 2^nd round after defeating Philip Henning 6-4 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Rei had a good straight sets win against Henning (6-4 6-3). During the match Sakamoto scored 58 points vs Henning’s 46. The Japanese was quite aggressive to blast 18 winners.

About the serving games, Sakamoto made 3 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Rei Sakamoto lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Sakamoto put 51% of his first serves in, winning 67% (18/27) of the points behind his 1st serve and 69% (18/26) on the 2nd serve. Sakamoto broke Henning 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

The Japanese’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Cervia and M25 La Nucia.

Sakamoto has a composed 16-16 win-loss record in 2024, 8-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Nakagawa	Sakamoto
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	19
Pts	77-68	58-46
Total Points	145	104
Winners	32	18
%Winners	42%	31%

Both Nakagawa and Sakamoto played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Nakagawa and Sakamoto have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Nakagawa played 2 games more than Sakamoto. Naoki scored 32 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Rei made 18 winners (31%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Nakagawa	Sakamoto
Aces	6	3
Avg per match	6	3
1st in	43/69	27/53
%1st in	62%	51%
1st pts	32/43	18/27
%1st pts	74%	67%
2nd pts	13/26	18/26
%2nd pts	50%	69%

Nakagawa fired 6 aces . Sakamoto recorded 3 aces . Nakagawa won 74% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Sakamoto won 67% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Nakagawa	Sakamoto
Won	3	4
Converted	3/8	4/5
% Converted	38%	80%
Conceded	4	3
Saved	3	2
% Saved	75%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

The Japanese broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Naoki dropped his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Sakamoto conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Nakagawa
	R1 Sweeny	Total
Score	7-610 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	77-68	77-68
Total points	145	145
Winners	32	32
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	43/69	43/69
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	32/43	32/43
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	13/26	13/26
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/8	3/8
Converted %	38%	38%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

Sakamoto
	R1 Henning	Total
Score	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	58-46	58-46
Total points	104	104
Winners	18	18
%Winners	31%	31%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	27/53	27/53
% 1st in	51%	51%
1st pts	18/27	18/27
% 1st pts	67%	67%
2nd pts	18/26	18/26
% 2nd pts	69%	69%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/5	4/5
Converted %	80%	80%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Yokkaichi Challenger

• 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
• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-4 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