Yasutaka Uchiyama and Yuta Kikuchi will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Zhangjiagang Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 9:00 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 Yasutaka Uchiyama who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yasutaka Uchiyama is the pick to win this match.
Yasutaka Uchiyama -> 1.127
Yuta Kikuchi -> 5.35

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Prediction and head to head Yasutaka Uchiyama vs. Yuta Kikuchi

There is no head to head record between Yasutaka Uchiyama and Yuta Kikuchi since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Yasutaka Uchiyama

Ranked no. 225, Uchiyama will start his run in the Zhangjiagang Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-2 6-3 to Zheng in the qualifications on the 19^th of August.

Uchiyama has an aggregate 12-19 win-loss record in 2025, 8-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Yasutaka has an overall 466-380 record. He has a positive 339-250 record on hard.

Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger

Previously, he won this tournament twice in 2018 and 2024. See his history.

Yuta Kikuchi

Ranked no. 636, Yuta reached the 1^st round after beating Naoki Tajima 6-3 7-5 and Charles Chen 6-4 6-3.

In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Chen (6-4 6-3). During the match Kikuchi scored 73 points vs Chen’s 59. The Japanese was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Kikuchi struck 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yuta Kikuchi lost the serve once and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Kikuchi put 61% of his first serves in, winning 78% (31/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Chen 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Kikuchi started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 55% of the points he played.

The Japanese’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Wuning.

The Japanese has a compiled 25-13 win-loss record in 2025, 25-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger

Yuta has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Zhangjiagang Challenger

• Kaito UesugiUesugi – James WattWatt (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Joshua Charlton
  Charlton – Akira SantillanSantillan (7-6⁴ 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
• Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Hanyi LiuLiu (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Takeru YuzukiYuzuki (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Yuta KikuchiKikuchi – Charles ChenChen (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Yuta KikuchiKikuchi – Charles ChenChen (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Kaito UesugiUesugi – James WattWatt (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Joshua CharltonCharlton – Akira SantillanSantillan (7-6(4) 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
• Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Hanyi LiuLiu (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Takeru YuzukiYuzuki (6-4 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Bernard TomicTomic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Yuta KikuchiKikuchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Filip PeliwoPeliwo – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kaito UesugiUesugi – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo – Kaichi UchidaUchida (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
• Moerani BouzigeBouzige – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Joshua CharltonCharlton – Rigele TeTe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Linang XiaoXiao – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (1-0) – H2H and prediction