Charles Chen and Yuta Kikuchi will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Zhangjiagang Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 5:30 pm on Court 7. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yuta Kikuchi who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yuta Kikuchi is the pick to win this match.
Yuta Kikuchi -> 1.3
Charles Chen -> 3.28

Click here to see the updated quotes and live streaming (only selected countries - USA excluded).

To be able to watch live streaming bet365, a funded account is required or you need to have placed a bet in the last 24 hours. 18+ BeGambleAware.

Here where top tennis events are broadcasted or streamed online (ATP, WTA).

At the challenger level, there will be free live streaming on Challenger TV.

 

Prediction and head to head Charles Chen vs. Yuta Kikuchi

There is no head to head record between Charles Chen and Yuta Kikuchi since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Charles Chen

Currently unranked, Chen got to the qualifications after defeating Kasidit Samrej 1-6 6-4 4-0 ret..

In the qualifications against Samrej, Charles had a free pass after Samrej retired on a 1-6 6-4 4-0 . scoreline.

Chen has a winning record in the last 3 years having won 52% of his matches (33-31). 11-11 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Chen has an overall33-28 match record in the last 3 years on hard.

The Chinese has a compiled 11-13 win-loss record in 2025, 11-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger

Chen has never competed in this tournament before.

Yuta Kikuchi

Ranked no. 635 (career-high), Yuta reached the qualifications after beating Naoki Tajima 6-3 7-5.

In the qualifications, Kikuchi had a good straight sets win against Tajima (6-3 7-5). During the match Kikuchi scored 66 points vs Tajima’s 54. Yuta was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.

About the serving games, Kikuchi managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Yuta Kikuchi was quite effective on serve to win 82% (23/28) of his 1st serve and 60% (21/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Tajima 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

The Japanese’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Wuning.

Yuta has a composed 24-13 win-loss record in 2025, 24-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Chen	Kikuchi
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	4	2
Tot Games	21	21
Pts	58-55	66-54
Total Points	113	120
Winners	26	23
%Winners	45%	35%

Both Chen and Kikuchi played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Charles Chen dropped 1 set while Yuta Kikuchi hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Chen has played 2 sets more than Kikuchi (4 vs 2). However, it is interesting to notice that they played the same amount of games (21). Chen scored 26 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Kikuchi blasted 23 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Chen	Kikuchi
Aces	6	6
Avg per match	6	6
1st in	30/63	28/63
%1st in	48%	44%
1st pts	26/30	23/28
%1st pts	87%	82%
2nd pts	14/33	21/35
%2nd pts	42%	60%

Chen managed to score 6 aces . Kikuchi fired 6 aces . Chen won 87% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Kikuchi won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Chen	Kikuchi
Won	3	3
Converted	3/3	3/5
% Converted	100%	60%
Conceded	4	2
Saved	1	1
% Saved	25%	50%
Times Broken	3	1

Charles broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Charles conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded. Kikuchi broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Kikuchi conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Chen
	Q1 Samrej	Total
Score	1-6 6-4 4-0 ret.
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	21	21
pts	58-55	58-55
Total points	113	113
Winners	26	26
%Winners	45%	45%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	30/63	30/63
% 1st in	48%	48%
1st pts	26/30	26/30
% 1st pts	87%	87%
2nd pts	14/33	14/33
% 2nd pts	42%	42%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/3	3/3
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	1/4	1
Saved %	25%	25%
Times Broken	3	3

Kikuchi
	Q1 Tajima	Total
Score	6-3 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	66-54	66-54
Total points	120	120
Winners	23	23
%Winners	35%	35%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	28/63	28/63
% 1st in	44%	44%
1st pts	23/28	23/28
% 1st pts	82%	82%
2nd pts	21/35	21/35
% 2nd pts	60%	60%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/5	3/5
Converted %	60%	60%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	1/2	1
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	1	1

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Bernard TomicTomic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Hanyi LiuLiu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kaito UesugiUesugi – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Fajing SunSun – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Oliver CrawfordCrawford (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sergey FominFomin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jie CuiCui – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sanhui ShinShin – Woobin ShinShin (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Moerani BouzigeBouzige – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Joshua CharltonCharlton – Akira SantillanSantillan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Linang XiaoXiao – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (1-0) – H2H and prediction