Filip Misolic and Rei Sakamoto will play each other in the qualifications of the Tenerife 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.64
Filip Misolic -> 2.15
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Prediction and head to head Filip Misolic vs. Rei Sakamoto
There is no head to head record between Filip Misolic and Rei Sakamoto since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Filip Misolic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49-17 | 7-2 | 36-11 | 3-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 16-22 | 1-4 | 15-16 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-28 | 6-9 | 25-13 | 8-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-18 | 5-4 | 31-12 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 46-16 | 0-1 | 44-13 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 314, Misolic reached the qualifications after beating Marco Bortolotti 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Misolic had a good straight sets win against Bortolotti (6-1 6-4). During the match, Misolic scored 60 points vs Bortolotti’s 36. Misolic was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Misolic bagged 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Filip Misolic was very efficient on serve to win 89% (24/27) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Austrian broke Bortolotti 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Misolic has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 61% of his matches (163-104). 2-1 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Misolic has an aggregate15-21 match record in the last 7 years on hard.
Misolic has a composed 4-3 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tenerife 2 Challenger
Rei Sakamoto
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-16 | 18-11 | 3-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 20-16 | 12-11 | 6-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 7-11 | 1-4 | 5-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-6 | 5-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 364 (career-high), Sakamoto got to the qualifications after beating Alejo Sanchez Quilez 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, Rei had a good straight sets win against Sanchez Quilez (6-1 6-1). During the match Sakamoto scored 60 points vs Sanchez Quilez’s 32. Rei was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Sakamoto scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Rei Sakamoto was very efficient on serve to win 77% (20/26) of his 1st serve and 75% (9/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Sanchez Quilez 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
The Japanese’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger.
The Japanese has an aggregate 6-3 win-loss record in 2025, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tenerife 2 Challenger
Sakamoto has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Misolic | Sakamoto |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 14 |
| Pts | 60-36 | 60-32 |
| Total Points | 96 | 92 |
| Winners | 24 | 20 |
| %Winners | 40% | 33% |
Both Misolic and Sakamoto played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Misolic and Sakamoto have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Misolic played 3 games more than Sakamoto. The Austrian scored 24 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Sakamoto managed to score 20 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Misolic | Sakamoto |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 1 |
| 1st in | 27/45 | 26/38 |
| %1st in | 60% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 24/27 | 20/26 |
| %1st pts | 89% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 9/12 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 75% |
Misolic managed to score 5 aces . Sakamoto recorded 1 ace . Misolic won 89% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Sakamoto won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 75% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Misolic | Sakamoto |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 5/12 |
| % Converted | 75% | 42% |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The Austrian broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Austrian extremely effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Rei broke his opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. Rei was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Misolic | |||
| Q1 Bortolotti |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 60-36 | 60-36 | |
| Total points | 96 | 96 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 27/45 | 27/45 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 24/27 | 24/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 12/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Sakamoto | |||
| Q1 Sanchez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 60-32 | 60-32 | |
| Total points | 92 | 92 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 26/38 | 26/38 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 20/26 | 20/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/12 | 9/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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