James Duckworth and Yuichi Sugita will square off in the final of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 2nd time of their career.
James Duckworth: results and record
Ranked no. 158, Duckworth reached the final after defeating Lucas Catarina 6-1 6-3, Shintaro Imai 6-2 6-3, Tung-Lin Wu 6-3 6-1 and Tatsuma Ito 6-3 6-4.
Duckworth’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Bangkok Challenger.
The Australian has a 27-17 win-loss record in 2019, 19-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Yokkaichi Challenger
Duckworth didn’t compete in the Yokkaichi Challenger in 2018.
Yuichi Sugita: results and record
Ranked no. 164, the Japanese got to the final after defeating Yuya Ito 6-3 3-6 6-2, Tsung-Hua Yang 6-3 6-1, Hyeon Chung w/o and Sho Shimabukuro 7-5 6-3.
The Japanese best result of the season was reaching the final in the Chengdu Challenger and the Binghamton Challenger.
Sugita has a 29-17 win-loss record in 2019, 20-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Yokkaichi Challenger
Yuichi didn’t play in the Yokkaichi Challenger in 2018.
Yokkaichi Challenger Live score and result James Duckworth vs. Yuichi Sugita
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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Yuichi Sugita
This will be the 2nd time that James Duckworth and Yuichi Sugita play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sugita (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Sugita won 3-6 7-65 6-4 in the quarter in the 1100038063 back in August 2019.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Duckworth who should win in 3 sets.
James Duckworth -> 1.72
Yuichi Sugita -> 2.00
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