Jie Cui and Yusuke Takahashi will square off in the 1st round of the Suzhou Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm 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 Jie Cui who should win in 3 sets.
Jie Cui -> 1.43
Yusuke Takahashi -> 2.68
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Prediction and head to head Jie Cui vs. Yusuke Takahashi
This will be the 3rd time that Jie Cui and Yusuke Takahashi clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Cui and Takahashi (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Cui won 2-6 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in M25 Luan back in March 2025.
Jie Cui
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-27 | 32-24 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-27 | 36-26 | 5-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-23 | 36-21 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-10 | 10-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 315, the Chinese will start his run in the Suzhou Challenger after he played his last match in the Shenzhen Challenger where he lost 6-7(6) 6-4 7-5 to Zhou in the semifinal on the 18th of October.
The Chinese has an aggregate 33-26 win-loss record in 2025, 32-23 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Chinese’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger,M15 Luan and M25 Luzhou.
Talking about his overall career, The Chinese has an overall 187-145 record. He has a positive 168-125 record on hard.
Previously in the Suzhou Challenger
Jie has never competed in this tournament before.
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44-26 | 40-24 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-28 | 25-25 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 33-28 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-22 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-23 | 18-21 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 440, the Japanese reached the 1st round after defeating Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong 3-6 6-3 6-4 and Sergey Fomin 7-5 3-6 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Japanese defeated Fomin (7-5 3-6 6-4). During the match Takahashi scored 110 points vs Fomin’s 105. Yusuke was pretty aggressive to blast 43 winners.
About the serving games, Takahashi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yusuke Takahashi lost the serve 4 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Takahashi put 66% of his first serves in, winning 63% (43/68) of the points behind his 1st serve and 54% (19/35) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Fomin 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 50% of the points he played.
Takahashi’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Kashiwa and M15 Osaka.
The Japanese has an overall 40-21 win-loss record in 2025, 38-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Suzhou Challenger
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Henrique RochaRocha (6-71 7-66 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James McCabeMcCabe – Jason JungJung (6-74 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong (6-74 6-2 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (6-3 4-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aoran WangWang – Rigele TeTe (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Fajing SunSun – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sergey FominFomin – Renta TokudaTokuda (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jie CuiCui – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Garrett JohnsJohns (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ye Cong MoCong Mo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Takuya KumasakaKumasaka – Omar JasikaJasika (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Harold MayotMayot – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-1) – H2H and prediction