Rio Noguchi and Philip Sekulic will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Granby Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rio Noguchi who should win in 2 sets.
Rio Noguchi -> 1.36
Philip Sekulic -> 2.94
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Prediction and head to head Rio Noguchi vs. Philip Sekulic
This will be the 2nd time that Rio Noguchi and Philip Sekulic square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Noguchi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Noguchi won 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in the Sydney Challenger back in 2022.
Rio Noguchi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-30 | 36-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-31 | 36-22 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-31 | 12-18 | 2-7 | 2-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-22 | 41-10 | 9-9 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-26 | 18-18 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 209, Noguchi will start his run in the Granby Challenger after he played his last match in the Winnipeg Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-2 to Draxl in the quarter on the 12th of July.
The Japanese has an aggregate 25-16 win-loss record in 2025, 25-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was conquering the title the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger where he overcame Jie Cui in the final 7-6(9) 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, Rio has an overall 354-244 record. He has a positive 249-156 record on hard.
Previously in the Granby Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See his history.
Philip Sekulic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18-15 | 18-14 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-31 | 34-26 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-28 | 33-24 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-23 | 19-15 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-3 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 544, Sekulic will start his run in the Granby Challenger after he played his last match in the Winnipeg Challenger where he lost 6-4 7-5
to Miyoshi in the 1st round on the 8th of July.Philip has a compiled 0-2 win-loss record in 2025, 0-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, Sekulic has an overall 111-90 record. He has a positive 96-73 record on hard.
Previously in the Granby Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2023. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Granby Challenger
- Tyler ZinkZink – Andres AndradeAndrade (3-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Karue SellSell (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- August HolmgrenHolmgren – James WattWatt (6-75 7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-4 1-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Omar JasikaJasika – Justin BoulaisBoulais (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alfredo PerezPerez – Liam DraxlDraxl (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marek GengelGengel – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Juan Carlos Manuel AguilarCarlos Manuel Aguilar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Patrick MaloneyMaloney (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Patrick KypsonKypson – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – (1-0) – H2H and prediction