Kasidit Samrej and Yusuke Takahashi will square off in the qualifications of the Wuxi Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kasidit Samrej who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kasidit Samrej is the pick to win this match.
Kasidit Samrej -> 1.55
Yusuke Takahashi -> 2.33
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Prediction and head to head Kasidit Samrej vs. Yusuke Takahashi
There is no head to head record between Kasidit Samrej and Yusuke Takahashi since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Kasidit Samrej
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8-12 | 8-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-23 | 34-19 | 0-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-20 | 23-19 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-16 | 25-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-4 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 404 (career-high), Kasidit reached the qualifications after defeating Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Thai had a good straight sets win against Wei Kang Leong (6-3 6-1). During the match, Samrej scored 57 points vs Wei Kang Leong’s 38. The Thai was extremely aggressive to blast 15 winners.
Talking about the service games, Samrej scored just 1 ace in the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Kasidit Samrej lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Samrej put 41% of his first serves in, winning 79% (15/19) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (13/27) on the 2nd serve. Kasidit broke Wei Kang Leong 6 times after converting 50% of his break points (6/12).
Samrej has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 55% of his matches (116-95). 8-9 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Samrej has an aggregate112-90 record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Thai has a composed 8-9 win-loss record in 2025, 8-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Wuxi Challenger
Samrej has never competed in this tournament before.
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25-10 | 23-9 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-28 | 25-25 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 33-28 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-22 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-23 | 18-21 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 486, Yusuke got to the qualifications after beating Pengyu Lu 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Lu (6-2 6-1). During the match Takahashi scored 58 points vs Lu’s 34. Yusuke was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Takahashi recorded 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yusuke Takahashi was quite efficient on serve to win 82% (23/28) of his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Lu 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Yusuke’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Kashiwa and M15 Osaka.
Yusuke has an aggregate 22-9 win-loss record in 2025, 20-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Wuxi Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Samrej | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 15 |
| Pts | 57-38 | 58-34 |
| Total Points | 95 | 92 |
| Winners | 15 | 23 |
| %Winners | 26% | 40% |
Both Samrej and Takahashi 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, Samrej and Takahashi have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Samrej played 1 game more than Takahashi. Samrej scored 15 winners (26% of the total points). On the other side, Yusuke scored 23 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Samrej | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 4 |
| 1st in | 19/46 | 28/42 |
| %1st in | 41% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 15/19 | 23/28 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 13/27 | 9/14 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 64% |
Samrej made 1 ace . Takahashi also blasted 4 aces . Samrej won 79% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Takahashi won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Samrej | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/12 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 50% | 50% |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 |
| Saved | 2 | 0 |
| % Saved | 50% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Samrej broke his opponent 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. Kasidit surrendered his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Takahashi was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Samrej | |||
| Q1 Wei Kang Leong |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 57-38 | 57-38 | |
| Total points | 95 | 95 | |
| Winners | 15 | 15 | |
| %Winners | 26% | 26% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 19/46 | 19/46 | |
| % 1st in | 41% | 41% | |
| 1st pts | 15/19 | 15/19 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/27 | 13/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Takahashi | |||
| Q1 Lu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 58-34 | 58-34 | |
| Total points | 92 | 92 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 28/42 | 28/42 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 23/28 | 23/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 9/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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