Yan Bai and Kaichi Uchida will play each other in the qualifications of the Gwangju Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:00 pm on COURT 5. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yan Bai who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yan Bai is the pick to win this match.
Yan Bai -> 1.363
Kaichi Uchida -> 2.93

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Prediction and head to head Yan Bai vs. Kaichi Uchida

There is no head to head record between Yan Bai and Kaichi Uchida since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Yan Bai

Ranked no. 242, the Chinese got to the qualifications after beating Duckhee Lee 6-3 7-6(7).

In the qualifications, Bai had a good straight sets win against Hee Lee (6-3 7-6⁷). During the match, Bai scored 78 points vs Hee Lee’s 70. Yan was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Regarding the service games, Bai scored 7 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Yan Bai lost the serve 3 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Bai put 62% of his first serves in, winning 67% (34/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (15/31) on the 2nd serve. Yan broke Hee Lee 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Bai has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 66% of his matches (263-136). 7-5 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Bai has an overall 208-100 match record in the last years on hard.

The Chinese’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Maanshan and M25 Shenzhen.

The Chinese has a composed 12-6 win-loss record in 2025, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Gwangju Challenger

Kaichi Uchida

Ranked no. 369, the Japanese reached the qualifications after beating Jie Cui 6-2 6-4.

In the qualifications, Uchida had a good straight sets win against Cui (6-2 6-4). During the match Uchida scored 54 points vs Cui’s 37. Uchida was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Uchida recorded 11 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Kaichi Uchida was very effective on serve to win 93% (25/27) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kaichi broke Cui 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Kaichi has an overall 6-10 win-loss record in 2025, 3-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Bai	Uchida
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	18
Pts	78-70	54-37
Total Points	148	91
Winners	34	25
%Winners	44%	46%

Both Bai and Uchida 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, Bai and Uchida have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Bai played 4 games more than Uchida. Bai scored 34 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Uchida struck 25 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Bai	Uchida
Aces	7	11
Avg per match	7	11
1st in	51/82	27/43
%1st in	62%	63%
1st pts	34/51	25/27
%1st pts	67%	93%
2nd pts	15/31	11/16
%2nd pts	48%	69%

Bai made 7 aces . Uchida fired 11 aces . Bai won 67% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Uchida won 93% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Bai	Uchida
Won	4	3
Converted	4/7	3/5
% Converted	57%	60%
Conceded	4	0
Saved	1	0
% Saved	25%	0%
Times Broken	3	0

The Chinese broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Bai dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded. Uchida broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Uchida was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Bai
	Q1 Hee Lee	Total
Score	6-3 7-67
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	78-70	78-70
Total points	148	148
Winners	34	34
%Winners	44%	44%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	51/82	51/82
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	34/51	34/51
% 1st pts	67%	67%
2nd pts	15/31	15/31
% 2nd pts	48%	48%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/7	4/7
Converted %	57%	57%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	1/4	1
Saved %	25%	25%
Times Broken	3	3

Uchida
	Q1 Cui	Total
Score	6-2 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	54-37	54-37
Total points	91	91
Winners	25	25
%Winners	46%	46%
SERVE
Aces	11	11
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	27/43	27/43
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	25/27	25/27
% 1st pts	93%	93%
2nd pts	11/16	11/16
% 2nd pts	69%	69%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/5	3/5
Converted %	60%	60%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

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