Alex Michelsen and Ethan Quinn will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Japan Open Tennis Championships for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:00 pm on COURT 1. 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 Alex Michelsen who should win in 3 sets.
Alex Michelsen -> 1.57
Ethan Quinn -> 2.4
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Prediction and head to head Alex Michelsen vs. Ethan Quinn
This will be the 2nd time that Alex Michelsen and Ethan Quinn face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Quinn (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Quinn won 6-4 4-6 6-4 in the semifinal in M15 San Diego back in 2022.
Alex Michelsen
26 - 22win/loss
38
30
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-27 | 14-13 | 6-5 | 4-5 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 45-34 | 26-14 | 4-9 | 8-5 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 61-27 | 30-13 | 4-3 | 19-7 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-10 | 14-8 | 0-1 | 9-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 32, Michelsen will start his run in Tokyo after he played his last match in the Laver Cup where he lost 6-1 6-7(3) 10-8 to Mensik in the round robin on the 19th of September.
Alex has a compiled 26-22 win-loss record in 2025, 14-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Estoril Challenger where he defeated Andrea Pellegrino in the final 6-4 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Alex has an overall 155-93 record. He has a positive 84-46 record on hard.
Previously in Tokyo
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.
Ethan Quinn
39 - 23win/loss
70
64
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44-28 | 22-14 | 11-6 | 7-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-34 | 17-18 | 2-7 | 13-8 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 21-16 | 12-11 | 0-0 | 8-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-14 | 21-7 | 6-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 4-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 81, Quinn reached the 1st round after beating Yuta Shimizu 7-6(4) 6-4 and Mattia Bellucci 4-6 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications against Bellucci, Quinn recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 7-5). During the match Quinn and Bellucci scored the same amount of points (113). However, the world no. 32 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Quinn was very aggressive to blast 48 winners.
Talking about serving, Quinn struck 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Ethan Quinn was exceptionally effective on serve to win 72% (48/67) of his 1st serve and 55% (24/44) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Ethan broke Bellucci twice after converting 17% of his break points (2/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ethan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
The American’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Canberra Challenger.
Quinn has an overall 39-23 win-loss record in 2025, 21-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Quinn has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (2-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hugo Nys/Edouard Roger-VasselinNys/Edouard Roger-Vasselin – Robert Cash/James TracyCash/James Tracy (7-67 4-6 10-7) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- 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
- Casper RuudRuud – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- 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