Rio Noguchi and Jacopo Berrettini will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Chennai Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rio Noguchi who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Rio Noguchi is the pick to win this match.
Rio Noguchi -> 1.55
Jacopo Berrettini -> 2.33

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Prediction and head to head Rio Noguchi vs. Jacopo Berrettini

There is no head to head record between Rio Noguchi and Jacopo Berrettini since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Rio Noguchi

Ranked no. 251, the Japanese got to the 2^nd round after defeating Kimmer Coppejans 7-5 3-1 ret..

In the 1^st round against Coppejans, Noguchi had a free pass after Coppejans retired on a 7-5 3-1 . scoreline.

Noguchi has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (338-230). 9-2 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Noguchi has an overall 233-142 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the season was winning the title the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger where he beat Jie Cui in the final 7-6(9) 6-2.

Rio has an overall 9-2 win-loss record in 2025, 9-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Chennai Challenger

Noguchi has never competed in this tournament before.

Jacopo Berrettini

Ranked no. 324, Berrettini got to the 2^nd round after beating Sho Shimabukuro 6-3 7-6(4).

In the 1^st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Shimabukuro (6-3 7-6⁴). During the match Berrettini scored 77 points vs Shimabukuro’s 67. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.

About the serving games, Berrettini struck 3 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Jacopo Berrettini lost the serve 3 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Berrettini put 67% of his first serves in, winning 66% (31/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Shimabukuro 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Jacopo has an overall 1-0 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Noguchi	Berrettini
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	16	22
Pts	59-48	77-67
Total Points	107	144
Winners	21	31
%Winners	36%	40%

Both Noguchi and Berrettini played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Noguchi has played 1 set more than Berrettini (3 vs 2). However, it’s interesting to notice that Noguchi played 6 games less than Berrettini. Noguchi scored 21 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Berrettini made 31 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Noguchi	Berrettini
Aces	1	3
Avg per match	1	3
1st in	30/56	47/70
%1st in	54%	67%
1st pts	21/30	31/47
%1st pts	70%	66%
2nd pts	11/26	12/23
%2nd pts	42%	52%

Noguchi made 1 ace . Berrettini also made 3 aces . Noguchi won 70% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Berrettini won 66% of the points behind 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	Noguchi	Berrettini
Won	5	4
Converted	5/10	4/11
% Converted	50%	36%
Conceded	7	4
Saved	4	1
% Saved	57%	25%
Times Broken	3	3

Rio broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Noguchi surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded. Jacopo broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded.

Noguchi
	R1 Coppejans	Total
Score	7-5 3-1 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	59-48	59-48
Total points	107	107
Winners	21	21
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	30/56	30/56
% 1st in	54%	54%
1st pts	21/30	21/30
% 1st pts	70%	70%
2nd pts	11/26	11/26
% 2nd pts	42%	42%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/10	5/10
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	4/7	4
Saved %	57%	57%
Times Broken	3	3

Berrettini
	R1 Shimabukuro	Total
Score	6-3 7-64
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	77-67	77-67
Total points	144	144
Winners	31	31
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	47/70	47/70
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	31/47	31/47
% 1st pts	66%	66%
2nd pts	12/23	12/23
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/11	4/11
Converted %	36%	36%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	1/4	1
Saved %	25%	25%
Times Broken	3	3

Tennis Scores in Chennai Challenger

• Siddhant Banthia/Parikshit SomaniBanthia/Parikshit Somani – Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta/Vishnu VardhanKarteek Reddy Ganta/Vishnu Vardhan (6-3 3-6 10-7) – See score progression
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (7-5 3-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Billy HarrisHarris – Eric VanshelboimVanshelboim (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Karan SinghSingh (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Alexey ZakharovZakharov – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-3 6-7³ 6-1) – See score progression
• Michael GeertsGeerts – Maxim ZhukovZhukov (6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Elias YmerYmer – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-2 6-7⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Corentin DenollyDenolly (7-6⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Sascha Gueymard WayenburgGueymard Wayenburg (5-7 7-6² 6-0) – See score progression
• Jay ClarkeClarke – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Timofey SkatovSkatov – Hynek BartonBarton (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Billy HarrisHarris – Eric VanshelboimVanshelboim (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Corentin DenollyDenolly (7-6(4) 6-4) – See score progression
• Timofey SkatovSkatov – Hynek BartonBarton (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Elias YmerYmer – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-2 6-7(4) 6-2) – See score progression
• Jay ClarkeClarke – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (7-5 3-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Michael GeertsGeerts – Maxim ZhukovZhukov (6-2 7-6(5)) – See score progression
• Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Karan SinghSingh (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Alexey ZakharovZakharov – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-3 6-7(3) 6-1) – See score progression
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Sascha Gueymard WayenburgGueymard Wayenburg (5-7 7-6(2) 6-0) – See score progression
• Lloyd HarrisHarris – Yurii DzhavakianDzhavakian (6-3 5-7 6-0) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Timofey SkatovSkatov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elias YmerYmer – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ergi KirkinKirkin – Jiri VeselyVesely (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Zsombor PirosPiros – Oleksandr OvcharenkoOvcharenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Lloyd HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction