Yusuke Takahashi and Sergey Fomin will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Suzhou Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. 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 Sergey Fomin who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sergey Fomin is the pick to win this match.
Sergey Fomin -> 1.86
Yusuke Takahashi -> 1.87

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Prediction and head to head Yusuke Takahashi vs. Sergey Fomin

There is no head to head record between Yusuke Takahashi and Sergey Fomin since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Yusuke Takahashi

Ranked no. 441, Yusuke got to the qualifications after beating Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong 3-6 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications against Wei Kang Leong, The Japanese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-4).During the match, Takahashi scored less points (1) than Wei Kang Leong. In fact, the world no. 441 won 94 points vs Wei Kang Leong’s. That means that Takahashi was more focused during the important points. Takahashi was extremely aggressive to blast 40 winners.

Regarding the service games, Takahashi couldn’t to score even 1 ace in the encounter and he committed only 5 double faults. Yusuke Takahashi lost the serve 3 times and he saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Takahashi put 61% of his first serves in, winning 70% (40/57) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (16/36) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Wei Kang Leong 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).

Takahashi has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (304-237). 37-20 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Takahashi has an aggregate 266-201 record in the last years on hard.

Takahashi’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Kashiwa and M15 Osaka.

Takahashi has a compiled 39-21 win-loss record in 2025, 37-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Suzhou Challenger

Yusuke has never competed in this tournament before.

Sergey Fomin

Ranked no. 490, the Uzbek got to the qualifications after defeating Blake Bayldon 6-3 6-1.

In the qualifications, Sergey had a good straight sets win against Bayldon (6-3 6-1). During the match Fomin scored 56 points vs Bayldon’s 34. The Uzbek was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.

About the serving games, Fomin recorded 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Sergey Fomin was pretty efficient on serve to win 91% (20/22) of his 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sergey broke Bayldon 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

The Uzbek’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Antalya,M25 Antalya and M15 Shymkent.

Fomin has a composed 48-26 win-loss record in 2025, 17-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Takahashi	Fomin
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	28	16
Pts	94-95	56-34
Total Points	189	90
Winners	40	20
%Winners	43%	36%

Both Takahashi and Fomin played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Yusuke Takahashi conceded 1 set while Sergey Fomin hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Takahashi has played 1 set more than Fomin (3 vs 2). Therefore, Takahashi played 12 games more than Fomin. Yusuke scored 40 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Sergey managed to score 20 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Takahashi	Fomin
Aces	0	3
Avg per match	0	3
1st in	57/93	22/39
%1st in	61%	56%
1st pts	40/57	20/22
%1st pts	70%	91%
2nd pts	16/36	12/17
%2nd pts	44%	71%

Takahashi didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Fomin scored 3 aces . Takahashi won 70% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Fomin won 91% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Takahashi	Fomin
Won	4	4
Converted	4/14	4/5
% Converted	29%	80%
Conceded	14	0
Saved	11	0
% Saved	79%	0%
Times Broken	3	0

The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 29% conversion rate. Takahashi dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 79% of the break points that he conceded. Sergey broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Fomin was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Takahashi
	Q1 Wei Kang Leong	Total
Score	3-6 6-3 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	28	28
pts	94-95	94-95
Total points	189	189
Winners	40	40
%Winners	43%	43%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	57/93	57/93
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	40/57	40/57
% 1st pts	70%	70%
2nd pts	16/36	16/36
% 2nd pts	44%	44%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/14	4/14
Converted %	29%	29%
Conceded	14	14
Saved	11/14	11
Saved %	79%	79%
Times Broken	3	3

Fomin
	Q1 Bayldon	Total
Score	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	56-34	56-34
Total points	90	90
Winners	20	20
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	22/39	22/39
% 1st in	56%	56%
1st pts	20/22	20/22
% 1st pts	91%	91%
2nd pts	12/17	12/17
% 2nd pts	71%	71%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/5	4/5
Converted %	80%	80%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

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