Shintaro Mochizuki and Jay Clarke will square off in the 2nd round of the Bengaluru Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Shintaro Mochizuki who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Shintaro Mochizuki is the pick to win this match.
Shintaro Mochizuki -> 1.4
Jay Clarke -> 2.77
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Prediction and head to head Shintaro Mochizuki vs. Jay Clarke
There is no head to head record between Shintaro Mochizuki and Jay Clarke since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Shintaro Mochizuki
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-8 | 15-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-33 | 19-22 | 7-5 | 0-1 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-33 | 22-16 | 13-8 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-34 | 18-17 | 13-12 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-30 | 11-10 | 18-11 | 5-7 | 1-1 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 167, the Japanese reached the 2nd round after defeating Ramkumar Ramanathan 7-6(3) 7-5.
In the 1st round, Mochizuki had a good straight sets win against Ramanathan (7-63 7-5). During the match, Mochizuki scored 84 points vs Ramanathan’s 76. Shintaro was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Regarding the service games, Mochizuki scored 7 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Shintaro Mochizuki lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Mochizuki put 64% of his first serves in, winning 73% (36/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. Shintaro broke Ramanathan 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Mochizuki has a winning match record in the last 8 years having won 54% of his matches (186-158). 11-5 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Mochizuki has a composed107-90 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Noumea Challenger where he overcame Moerani Bouzige in the final 6-1 6-3.
The Japanese has a composed 11-5 win-loss record in 2025, 11-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bengaluru Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Jay Clarke
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-7 | 13-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2024 | 54-29 | 6-4 | 41-18 | 6-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-19 | 10-12 | 21-4 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-27 | 11-12 | 3-4 | 7-6 | 1-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-28 | 7-7 | 8-14 | 3-3 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 274, Clarke reached the 2nd round after beating Kasidit Samrej 6-1 6-0.
In the 1st round, Jay had a good straight sets win against Samrej (6-1 6-0). During the match Clarke scored 59 points vs Samrej’s 30. Clarke was quite aggressive to blast 14 winners.
Talking about serving, Clarke scored 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Jay Clarke was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 93% (14/15) of his 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Brit broke Samrej 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Clarke has an overall 5-6 win-loss record in 2025, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mochizuki | Clarke |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 25 | 13 |
| Pts | 84-76 | 59-30 |
| Total Points | 160 | 89 |
| Winners | 36 | 14 |
| %Winners | 43% | 24% |
Both Mochizuki and Clarke played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mochizuki and Clarke have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Mochizuki played 12 games more than Clarke. Shintaro scored 36 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Jay blasted 14 winners (24%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mochizuki | Clarke |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 5 |
| 1st in | 49/77 | 15/36 |
| %1st in | 64% | 42% |
| 1st pts | 36/49 | 14/15 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 93% |
| 2nd pts | 14/28 | 14/21 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 67% |
Mochizuki blasted 7 aces . Clarke blasted 5 aces . Mochizuki won 73% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Clarke won 93% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Mochizuki | Clarke |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/10 | 5/11 |
| % Converted | 30% | 45% |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 33% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
The Japanese broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. The Japanese surrendered his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Clarke broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Jay was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Mochizuki | |||
| R1 Ramanathan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 84-76 | 84-76 | |
| Total points | 160 | 160 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 49/77 | 49/77 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 36/49 | 36/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/28 | 14/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Clarke | |||
| R1 Samrej |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 59-30 | 59-30 | |
| Total points | 89 | 89 | |
| Winners | 14 | 14 | |
| %Winners | 24% | 24% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 15/36 | 15/36 | |
| % 1st in | 42% | 42% | |
| 1st pts | 14/15 | 14/15 | |
| % 1st pts | 93% | 93% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/21 | 14/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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