Yasutaka Uchiyama and Ilia Simakin will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Manama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 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 Yasutaka Uchiyama who should win in 3 sets.
Yasutaka Uchiyama -> 1.63
Ilia Simakin -> 2.17
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Prediction and head to head Yasutaka Uchiyama vs. Ilia Simakin
There is no head to head record between Yasutaka Uchiyama and Ilia Simakin since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Yasutaka Uchiyama
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-29 | 19-22 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-25 | 26-18 | 1-1 | 6-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-24 | 27-22 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-21 | 16-13 | 0-0 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-26 | 9-13 | 0-3 | 1-6 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 157, the Japanese will start his run in the Manama Challenger after he played his last match in the Oeiras 3 Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Lajal in the 2nd round on the 23rd of January.
Uchiyama has an aggregate 3-2 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Yasutaka has an overall 457-363 record. He has a positive 333-238 record on hard.
Previously in the Manama Challenger
Yasutaka has never competed in this tournament before.
Ilia Simakin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-21 | 39-20 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 62-22 | 55-21 | 0-0 | 7-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-19 | 28-18 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-17 | 24-12 | 0-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 332, Simakin got to the 1st round after beating Ray Ho w/o and Vitaliy Sachko 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Simakin had a good straight sets win against Sachko (6-4 6-3). During the match Simakin scored 59 points vs Sachko’s 42. Simakin was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Simakin struck 4 aces and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Ilia Simakin was exceptionally effective on serve to win 74% (23/31) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Ilia broke Sachko 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Simakin’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Sharm ElSheikh.
The Russian has an aggregate 4-0 win-loss record in 2025, 4-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Manama Challenger
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Fajing SunSun (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Duje AjdukovicDuje – Constant LestienneConstant (4-6 6-4 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltBrandon – Pavel KotovPavel (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Daniel EvansEvans – Benoit PairePaire (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Nicolas MejiaMejia (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Charles BroomBroom – Aziz DougazDougaz (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (0-1) – H2H and prediction