Sofia Kenin and Wakana Sonobe will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 5:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sofia Kenin who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sofia Kenin is the pick to win this match.
Sofia Kenin -> 1.26
Wakana Sonobe -> 3.84

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Prediction and head to head Sofia Kenin vs. Wakana Sonobe

There is no head to head record between Sofia Kenin and Wakana Sonobe since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Sofia Kenin

Ranked no. 25, Sofia got to the 2^nd round after beating Moyuka Uchijima 6-1 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Sofia had a good straight sets win against Uchijima (6-1 6-3). During the match, Kenin scored 67 points vs Uchijima’s 44. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Regarding the service games, Kenin scored just 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Sofia Kenin conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 5 break points. Furthermore, Kenin put 63% of her first serves in, winning 69% (25/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 71% (15/21) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Uchijima 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).

Kenin has winning record in the last 10 years having won 58% of her matches (279-201). 17-16 on hard in 2025. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Kenin has a compiled 174-122 match record in the last years on hard.

The American’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Charleston.

The American has a composed 29-24 win-loss record in 2025, 17-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Tokyo

Wakana Sonobe

Ranked no. 263, Wakana got to the 2^nd round after defeating Nikola Bartunkova 6-4 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Wakana had a good straight sets win against Bartunkova (6-4 6-3). During the match Sonobe scored 93 points vs Bartunkova’s 82. Wakana was extremely aggressive to blast 39 winners.

Talking about serving, Sonobe scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Wakana Sonobe lost the serve once and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Sonobe put 61% of her first serves in, winning 65% (39/60) of the points behind her 1st serve and 51% (20/39) on the 2nd serve. Sonobe broke Bartunkova 3 times after converting 30% of her break points (3/10).

Her best result of the current year was conquering the title the W100 Tokyo where she defeated Ena Shibahara in the final 6-4 6-7(1) 6-3.

Wakana has a composed 20-14 win-loss record in 2025, 18-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Tokyo

Wakana has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kenin	Sonobe
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	19
Pts	67-44	93-82
Total Points	111	175
Winners	25	39
%Winners	37%	42%

Both Kenin and Sonobe played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kenin and Sonobe have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kenin played 3 games less than Sonobe. Sofia scored 25 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Sonobe fired 39 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kenin	Sonobe
Aces	1	1
Avg per match	1	1
1st in	36/57	60/99
%1st in	63%	61%
1st pts	25/36	39/60
%1st pts	69%	65%
2nd pts	15/21	20/39
%2nd pts	71%	51%

Kenin blasted 1 ace . Sonobe also blasted 1 ace . Kenin won 69% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Sonobe won 65% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 51% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kenin	Sonobe
Won	4	3
Converted	4/8	3/10
% Converted	50%	30%
Conceded	5	9
Saved	5	8
% Saved	100%	89%
Times Broken	0	1

The American broke her opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The American quite strong on her serve as she has never lost a single service game after saving 5 break points. Sonobe broke her opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded her serve once and she saved 89% of the break points that she conceded.

Kenin
	R1 Uchijima	Total
Score	6-1 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	67-44	67-44
Total points	111	111
Winners	25	25
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	36/57	36/57
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	25/36	25/36
% 1st pts	69%	69%
2nd pts	15/21	15/21
% 2nd pts	71%	71%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/8	4/8
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	5/5	5
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Sonobe
	R1 Bartunkova	Total
Score	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	93-82	93-82
Total points	175	175
Winners	39	39
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	60/99	60/99
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	39/60	39/60
% 1st pts	65%	65%
2nd pts	20/39	20/39
% 2nd pts	51%	51%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/10	3/10
Converted %	30%	30%
Conceded	9	9
Saved	8/9	8
Saved %	89%	89%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Tokyo

• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (7-6⁴ 2-6 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Maya JointJoint (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Linda NoskovaNoskova – Mccartney KesslerKessler (5-7 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Victoria MbokoMboko – Eva LysLys (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Guido AndreozziAndreozzi – John McnallyMcnally (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Bradley KlahnKlahn – Max PurcellPurcell (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Roy SmithSmith – Michael MmohMmoh (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jc AragoneAragone – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (2-6 7-6² 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Donald YoungYoung – Sekou BangouraBangoura (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Alejandro GonzalezGonzalez (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Ulises BlanchBlanch (7-6² 4-6 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis – Quentin HalysHalys (7-6³ 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jason JungJung – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Michael RedlickiRedlicki (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stefan KozlovKozlov – Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras (7-5 4-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Collin AltamiranoAltamirano – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Denis IstominIstomin – Aziz DougazDougaz (6-3 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Jared HiltzikHiltzik (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Matthew EbdenEbden (5-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Belinda BencicBencic – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Elena RybakinaRybakina (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – (0-1) – H2H and prediction