Rio Noguchi and Oliver Crawford will face off in the 2^nd round of the Shanghai Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 5:30 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 Oliver Crawford who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Oliver Crawford is the pick to win this match.
Oliver Crawford -> 1.56
Rio Noguchi -> 2.3

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Prediction and head to head Rio Noguchi vs. Oliver Crawford

There is no head to head record between Rio Noguchi and Oliver Crawford since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Rio Noguchi

Ranked no. 219, Rio reached the 2^nd round after defeating Yosuke Watanuki 6-4 7-5.

In the 1^st round, Noguchi had a good straight sets win against Watanuki (6-4 7-5). During the match, Noguchi scored 71 points vs Watanuki’s 62. Rio was exceptionally aggressive to blast 41 winners.

Talking about the service games, Noguchi made 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Rio Noguchi was pretty efficient on serve to win 72% (41/57) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Watanuki twice.

Noguchi has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (361-249). 32-21 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Noguchi has an overall 256-161 match record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the season was conquering the title the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger where he beat Jie Cui in the final 7-6(9) 6-2.

Rio has an aggregate 32-21 win-loss record in 2025, 32-21 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shanghai Challenger

Oliver Crawford

Ranked no. 230, the American reached the 2^nd round after defeating Marat Sharipov 6-3 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Oliver had a good straight sets win against Sharipov (6-3 6-2). During the match Crawford scored 59 points vs Sharipov’s 45. The American was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Crawford struck 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Oliver Crawford was extremely efficient on serve to win 87% (27/31) of his 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Oliver broke Sharipov 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).

Crawford’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Chennai,M15 Zahra,M15 Villena,M25 Luan,M25 Shenzhen,M25 Bengaluru,M25 Sabadell and the Zhangjiagang Challenger.

The American has a compiled 58-18 win-loss record in 2025, 42-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Shanghai Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Noguchi	Crawford
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	17
Pts	71-62	59-45
Total Points	133	104
Winners	41	27
%Winners	58%	46%

Both Noguchi and Crawford played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Noguchi and Crawford have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Noguchi played 5 games more than Crawford. Noguchi scored 41 winners (58% of the total points). On the other side, Crawford fired 27 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Noguchi	Crawford
Aces	2	3
Avg per match	2	3
1st in	57/75	31/57
%1st in	76%	54%
1st pts	41/57	27/31
%1st pts	72%	87%
2nd pts	11/18	14/26
%2nd pts	61%	54%

Noguchi managed to score 2 aces . Crawford scored 3 aces . Noguchi won 72% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Crawford won 87% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Noguchi	Crawford
Won	2	3
Converted	2/2	3/4
% Converted	100%	75%
Conceded	6	4
Saved	6	4
% Saved	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Noguchi broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. Rio pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 6 break points. The American broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Crawford was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.

Noguchi
	R1 Watanuki	Total
Score	6-4 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	71-62	71-62
Total points	133	133
Winners	41	41
%Winners	58%	58%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	57/75	57/75
% 1st in	76%	76%
1st pts	41/57	41/57
% 1st pts	72%	72%
2nd pts	11/18	11/18
% 2nd pts	61%	61%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/2	2/2
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	6/6	6
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Crawford
	R1 Sharipov	Total
Score	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	59-45	59-45
Total points	104	104
Winners	27	27
%Winners	46%	46%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	31/57	31/57
% 1st in	54%	54%
1st pts	27/31	27/31
% 1st pts	87%	87%
2nd pts	14/26	14/26
% 2nd pts	54%	54%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/4	3/4
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	4/4	4
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Shanghai Challenger

• Ilia SimakinSimakin – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (6-4 6-7⁷ 7-5) – See score progression
• Daniel EvansEvans – Linang XiaoXiao (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (6-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Arthur GeaGea (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Petr Bar BiryukovBar Biryukov – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Marat SharipovSharipov (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Renta TokudaTokuda – Kokoro IsomuraIsomura (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
• Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-6 7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Bernard TomicTomic – Yaojie ZengZeng (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Gauthier OnclinOnclin (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Yan BaiBai (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Jie CuiCui (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Omar JasikaJasika – Rigele TeTe (4-6 6-2 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Fajing SunSun – James McCabeMcCabe (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Yi ZhouZhou – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (2-6 7-6⁵ 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Daniel EvansEvans – Linang XiaoXiao (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (6-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Petr Bar BiryukovBar Biryukov – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Ilia SimakinSimakin – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (6-4 6-7(7) 7-5) – See score progression
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Arthur GeaGea (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Marat SharipovSharipov (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (6-4 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Daniel EvansEvans – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Fajing SunSun – Omar JasikaJasika (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Bernard TomicTomic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – (0-0) – H2H and prediction