Frances Tiafoe and Marton Fucsovics will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Japan Open Tennis Championships for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:30 pm on COLOSSEUM. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Frances Tiafoe who should win in 3 sets.
Frances Tiafoe -> 1.65
Marton Fucsovics -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Frances Tiafoe vs. Marton Fucsovics
This will be the 5th time that Frances Tiafoe and Marton Fucsovics play each other. The head to head is 2-2 for Tiafoe and Fucsovics (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Tiafoe won 6-3 7-6(11) in the semifinal in Stuttgart back in 2023.
Highlights Frances Tiafoe vs Marton Fucsovics – Stuttgart 17-June-2023
Frances Tiafoe
26 - 21win/loss
30
10
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-23 | 13-13 | 11-7 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-27 | 21-13 | 5-6 | 4-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-21 | 21-10 | 8-4 | 4-5 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-25 | 19-11 | 8-6 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-27 | 19-13 | 4-7 | 10-4 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 29, Francis will start his run in Tokyo after he played his last match in 3 where he lost 6-1 6-4 to Mensik in the Rubber 5 on the 13th of September.
The American has a composed 26-21 win-loss record in 2025, 13-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Houston.
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 400-281 record. He has a positive 192-133 record on hard.
Previously in Tokyo
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2022. See his history.
Marton Fucsovics
39 - 19win/loss
55
31
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41-22 | 18-6 | 11-9 | 4-4 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 22-19 | 6-8 | 9-5 | 7-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-25 | 17-11 | 6-6 | 5-6 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-26 | 7-12 | 6-5 | 15-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-24 | 10-9 | 3-5 | 10-7 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 58, Marton reached the 1st round after defeating Filip Misolic 6-3 6-1 and Matteo Arnaldi 7-5 6-2.
In the qualifications, Fucsovics had a good straight sets win against Arnaldi (7-5 6-2). During the match Fucsovics scored 77 points vs Arnaldi’s 58. Fucsovics was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Fucsovics blasted 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Marton Fucsovics lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Fucsovics put 58% of his first serves in, winning 63% (25/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 72% (21/29) on the 2nd serve. The Hungarian broke Arnaldi 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Fucsovics started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 60% of the points he played.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Manama Challenger where he overcame Andrea Vavassori in the final 6-3 6-7(3) 6-4 and in Salem where he overcame Botic Van De Zandschulp in the final 6-3 7-6(3).
The Hungarian has an aggregate 39-19 win-loss record in 2025, 17-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
The Hungarian has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Rei SakamotoSakamoto (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Ethan QuinnQuinn – Mattia BellucciBellucci (4-6 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Marcos GironGiron – Sebastian KordaKorda (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (2-4) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas MachacMachac – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Sebastian BaezBaez (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (0-2) – H2H and prediction