Luca Castelnuovo and Kaichi Uchida will play each other in the 1st round of the Zhangjiagang Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 9:00 pm on Court 5. 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 Luca Castelnuovo who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Luca Castelnuovo is the pick to win this match.
Luca Castelnuovo -> 1.67
Kaichi Uchida -> 2.1

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Prediction and head to head Luca Castelnuovo vs. Kaichi Uchida

There is no head to head record between Luca Castelnuovo and Kaichi Uchida since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Luca Castelnuovo

Luca Castelnuovo

31 - 16win/loss

Hard
20-12
I Hard
8-2
Clay
3-2
Rank
410
High
400
LLWLWWLWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 43-23 32-18 3-2 8-3 0-0 0-0
2024 25-21 25-20 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 36-23 22-15 4-3 8-4 0-0 2-1
2022 9-16 8-7 0-2 0-3 1-2 0-2
2021 21-30 9-10 11-18 0-1 1-1 0-0

Ranked no. 486, Castelnuovo will start his run in the Zhangjiagang Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Bali where he lost 6-4 7-5 to Takahashi in the 2nd round on the 14th of August.

Castelnuovo has a composed 31-16 win-loss record in 2025, 20-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Luca’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Kayseri,M25 Luzhou and M15 Maanshan.

Talking about his overall career, Luca has an overall 225-204 record. He has a positive 135-122 record on hard.

Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger

Castelnuovo has never competed in this tournament before.

Zhangjiagang Challenger
Castelnuovo's Record

Kaichi Uchida

Kaichi Uchida

17 - 21win/loss

Hard
14-13
I Hard
2-4
Clay
0-3
Carpet
1-1
Rank
288
High
147
WLWWWLWWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 44-30 36-20 0-3 7-6 0-0 1-1
2024 42-30 18-22 16-6 8-2 0-0 0-0
2023 17-33 4-18 3-10 9-4 1-1 0-0
2022 35-34 24-23 8-5 3-6 0-0 0-0
2021 35-26 27-13 6-11 1-2 1-0 0-0

Ranked no. 579, Uchida reached the 1st round after beating Qian Sun 6-1 6-3 and Takeru Yuzuki 6-4 6-2.

In the qualifications, Kaichi had a good straight sets win against Yuzuki (6-4 6-2). During the match Uchida scored 61 points vs Yuzuki’s 42. Kaichi was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Uchida managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Kaichi Uchida was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 96% (25/26) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Uchida broke Yuzuki 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Kaichi 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 58% of the points he played.

The Japanese’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Nakhon Pathom.

Uchida has an aggregate 17-21 win-loss record in 2025, 14-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023 and 2024. See his history.

Zhangjiagang Challenger
Uchida's Record

Tennis Scores in Zhangjiagang Challenger

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