Valentin Vacherot and Shinji Hazawa will face off in the 1^st round of the Noumea Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:30 am on COURT MORAULT. 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 Valentin Vacherot who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Valentin Vacherot is the pick to win this match.
Valentin Vacherot -> 1.083
Shinji Hazawa -> 6.55

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Prediction and head to head Valentin Vacherot vs. Shinji Hazawa

There is no head to head record between Valentin Vacherot and Shinji Hazawa since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Valentin Vacherot

Ranked no. 140, Vacherot will start his run in the Noumea Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-3 3-1 ret. to Choinski in the qualifications on the 21^st of August.

Vacherot has a compiled 34-13 win-loss record in 2024, 19-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger where he overcame Lucas Pouille in the final 3-2 ret. and the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger where he beat Manuel Guinard in the final 7-5 7-6(5) and the Pune Challenger where he beat Adam Walton in the final 3-6 7-6(5) 7-6(5).

Talking about his overall career, Vacherot has an overall 230-118 record. He has a positive 106-38 record on hard.

Previously in the Noumea Challenger

The Monegasque has never competed in this tournament before.

Shinji Hazawa

Ranked no. 855, Shinji reached the 1^st round after beating Unknown Player bye and Lawrence Bataljin 6-3 6-0.

In the qualifications, Hazawa had a good straight sets win against Bataljin (6-3 6-0). During the match Hazawa scored 58 points vs Bataljin’s 36. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 15 winners.

Talking about serving, Hazawa fired 3 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Shinji Hazawa was extremely effective on serve to win 79% (15/19) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Hazawa broke Bataljin 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).

The Japanese’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Monastir.

Shinji has an overall 14-14 win-loss record in 2024, 14-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

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• Maxime JanvierJanvier – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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