Taro Daniel and James Kent Trotter will play each other in the qualifications of the Delray Beach Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 10:00 am on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Kent Trotter who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, James Kent Trotter is the pick to win this match.
James Kent Trotter -> 1.727
Taro Daniel -> 2.02
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Prediction and head to head Taro Daniel vs. James Kent Trotter
There is no head to head record between Taro Daniel and James Kent Trotter since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Taro Daniel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7-23 | 5-13 | 1-8 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-33 | 16-16 | 5-11 | 9-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-30 | 34-16 | 7-10 | 2-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-29 | 27-17 | 12-7 | 2-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-25 | 5-7 | 21-15 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 117, the Japanese got to the qualifications after defeating Liam Draxl 7-6(6) 4-0 ret..
In the qualifications against Draxl, Taro had a free pass after Draxl retired on a 7-66 4-0 . scoreline.
Daniel has winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (307-260). 1-3 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Daniel has an overall 147-115 match record in the last years on hard.
The Japanese has a compiled 1-4 win-loss record in 2025, 1-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Delray Beach
James Kent Trotter
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-20 | 11-12 | 3-3 | 2-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-23 | 19-12 | 1-3 | 21-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-13 | 15-10 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-11 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 182 (career-high), James reached the qualifications after defeating Ryan Seggerman 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Seggerman (6-1 6-3). During the match Kent scored 50 points vs Seggerman’s 27. Kent was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Kent blasted 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. James Kent Trotter was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 95% (20/21) of his 1st serve and 80% (12/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kent was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Seggerman 4 times.
Kent has an aggregate 7-4 win-loss record in 2025, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Delray Beach
James has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Daniel | Kent |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 16 |
| Pts | 60-45 | 50-27 |
| Total Points | 105 | 77 |
| Winners | 23 | 20 |
| %Winners | 38% | 40% |
Both Daniel and Kent played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Daniel has played 1 set more than Kent (3 vs 2). Therefore, Daniel played 1 game more than Kent. The Japanese scored 23 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese managed to score 20 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Daniel | Kent |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 4 |
| 1st in | 32/53 | 21/36 |
| %1st in | 60% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 23/32 | 20/21 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 95% |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 12/15 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 80% |
Daniel fired 4 aces . Kent managed to score 4 aces . Daniel won 72% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Kent won 95% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 80% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Daniel | Kent |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/4 |
| % Converted | 67% | 100% |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 |
| Saved | 2 | 0 |
| % Saved | 50% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Taro broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Taro surrendered his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Kent broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Kent was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Daniel | |||
| Q1 Draxl |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 4-0 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 60-45 | 60-45 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 32/53 | 32/53 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 23/32 | 23/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 12/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Kent | |||
| Q1 Seggerman |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 50-27 | 50-27 | |
| Total points | 77 | 77 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 21/36 | 21/36 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 20/21 | 20/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 95% | 95% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/15 | 12/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 80% | 80% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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