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.
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
31 - 16win/loss
410
400
| 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.
Kaichi Uchida
17 - 21win/loss
288
147
| 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.
Tennis Scores in Zhangjiagang Challenger
- Kaito UesugiUesugi – James WattWatt (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Joshua CharltonCharlton – 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