Jan-Lennard Struff and Taro Daniel will face off in the qualifications of the U.S. Open for the 7th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 pm on Court 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jan-Lennard Struff who should win in 4 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jan-Lennard Struff is the pick to win this match.
Jan-Lennard Struff -> 1.28
Taro Daniel -> 3.54

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Prediction and head to head Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Taro Daniel

This will be the 7th time that Jan-Lennard Struff and Taro Daniel clash against each other. The head to head is 3-3 for Struff and Daniel (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Struff won 6-2 6-1 in the quarter in the Braunschweig Challenger back in 2022.

Jan-Lennard Struff

Jan-Lennard Struff

13 - 22win/loss

Hard
3-9
I Hard
2-2
Clay
5-8
Grass
3-3
Rank
84
High
21
WWWWWLWWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 27-28 7-11 5-8 12-6 3-3 0-0
2024 30-21 4-8 15-5 5-6 6-2 0-0
2023 45-24 21-9 14-7 5-6 5-2 0-0
2022 23-22 3-10 7-4 12-4 1-4 0-0
2021 26-30 8-11 11-8 6-8 1-3 0-0

Ranked no. 145, the German reached the qualifications after defeating Clement Chidekh 6-4 6-1.

In the qualifications, The German had a good straight sets win against Chidekh (6-4 6-1). During the match, Struff scored 65 points vs Chidekh’s 46. The German was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Regarding the service games, Struff struck 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Jan-Lennard Struff lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Struff put 62% of his first serves in, winning 69% (22/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. Jan-Lennard broke Chidekh 6 times after converting 40% of his break points (6/15).

Struff has favorable record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (304-254). 2-9 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Struff has an aggregate 81-91 record in the last years on hard.

The German has an aggregate 12-22 win-loss record in 2025, 2-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

U.S. Open
Struff's Record

Taro Daniel

Taro Daniel

7 - 24win/loss

Hard
5-14
I Hard
0-1
Clay
1-8
Grass
1-1
Rank
381
High
58
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 12-31 10-19 1-8 0-3 1-1 0-0
2024 31-33 16-16 5-11 9-3 1-3 0-0
2023 45-30 34-16 7-10 2-1 2-3 0-0
2022 43-29 27-17 12-7 2-2 2-3 0-0
2021 30-25 5-7 21-15 4-3 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 167, Daniel got to the qualifications after beating Vitaliy Sachko 6-1 7-5.

In the qualifications, Taro had a good straight sets win against Sachko (6-1 7-5). During the match Daniel scored 62 points vs Sachko’s 44. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.

About the serving games, Daniel struck 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Taro Daniel lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Daniel put 55% of his first serves in, winning 75% (24/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Sachko 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).

Daniel has an aggregate 7-23 win-loss record in 2025, 5-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2017. See his history.

U.S. Open
Daniel's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

J.Struff
T.Daniel
1h:09
1h:09
Time on court​
1h:13
1h:13
1h:09
1h:09
Last match​
1h:13
1h:13
1
1
Match played
1
1
17
17
Games Played​
19
19
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
65
65
Total points​
62
62
65
65
Avg point​
62
62
22
22
Winners
24
24
22
22
Avg Winners​
24
24
34%
34%
Ratio winners
39%
39%
-- Serve --
4
4
Aces
5
5
4
4
Avg Aces
5
5
3
3
Double Faults
3
3
3
3
Avg Double Faults
3
3
22/32
22/32
1st won total​
24/32
24/32
69%
69%
1st won %
!
75%
75%
10/20
10/20
2nd won total​
13/26
13/26
50%
50%
2nd won %
50%
50%
-- Break Points --
6/15
6/15
BP won
5/7
5/7
6/15
6/15
Avg BP won
5/7
5/7
40%
40%
Won
!
71%
71%
6
6
Conceded
3
3
6
6
Avg Conceded
3
3
3
3
Broken
2
2
3
3
Avg Broken
2
2
3
3
Saved
1
1

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Struff Daniel
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 19
Pts 65-46 62-44
Total Points 111 106
Winners 22 24
%Winners 34% 39%

Both Struff and Daniel played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Struff and Daniel have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Struff played 2 games less than Daniel. Struff scored 22 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Taro managed to score 24 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve Struff Daniel
Aces 4 5
Avg per match 4 5
1st in 32/52 32/58
%1st in 62% 55%
1st pts 22/32 24/32
%1st pts 69% 75%
2nd pts 10/20 13/26
%2nd pts 50% 50%

Struff recorded 4 aces . Daniel recorded 5 aces . Struff won 69% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Daniel won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Struff Daniel
Won 6 5
Converted 6/15 5/7
% Converted 40% 71%
Conceded 6 3
Saved 3 1
% Saved 50% 33%
Times Broken 3 2

Struff broke his opponent 6 times with a 40% conversion rate. Struff dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Taro broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Taro conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.

Struff
Q1
Chidekh
Total
Score 6-4 6-1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 17
pts 65-46 65-46
Total points 111 111
Winners 22 22
%Winners 34% 34%
SERVE
Aces 4 4
Double Faults 3 3
1st in 32/52 32/52
% 1st in 62% 62%
1st pts 22/32 22/32
% 1st pts 69% 69%
2nd pts 10/20 10/20
% 2nd pts 50% 50%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/15 6/15
Converted % 40% 40%
Conceded 6 6
Saved 3/6 3
Saved % 50% 50%
Times Broken 3 3
Daniel
Q1
Sachko
Total
Score 6-1 7-5
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 19 19
pts 62-44 62-44
Total points 106 106
Winners 24 24
%Winners 39% 39%
SERVE
Aces 5 5
Double Faults 3 3
1st in 32/58 32/58
% 1st in 55% 55%
1st pts 24/32 24/32
% 1st pts 75% 75%
2nd pts 13/26 13/26
% 2nd pts 50% 50%
Breaks
Won 5 5
Converted 5/7 5/7
Converted % 71% 71%
Conceded 3 3
Saved 1/3 1
Saved % 33% 33%
Times Broken 2 2

Tennis Scores – U.S. Open

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