Shunsuke Nakagawa and Yuta Kikuchi will face off in the qualifications of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yuta Kikuchi who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yuta Kikuchi is the pick to win this match.
Yuta Kikuchi -> 1.51
Shunsuke Nakagawa -> 2.35

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Prediction and head to head Shunsuke Nakagawa vs. Yuta Kikuchi

There is no head to head record between Shunsuke Nakagawa and Yuta Kikuchi since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Shunsuke Nakagawa

Currently unranked, Shunsuke got to the qualifications after defeating Yuta Kawahashi 6-3 6-1.

In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Kawahashi (6-3 6-1). During the match, Nakagawa scored 55 points vs Kawahashi’s 36. The Japanese was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about the service games, Nakagawa recorded 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Shunsuke Nakagawa lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Nakagawa put 57% of his first serves in, winning 81% (21/26) of the points behind his 1st serve and 35% (7/20) on the 2nd serve. Nakagawa broke Kawahashi 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).

Nakagawa has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 61% of his matches (66-43). 25-16 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Nakagawa has an overall63-40 match record in the last 5 years on hard.

Shunsuke has an overall 25-16 win-loss record in 2025, 25-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger

Yuta Kikuchi

Ranked no. 605, the Japanese reached the qualifications after beating Ryo Tabata 6-0 6-4.

In the qualifications, Kikuchi had a good straight sets win against Tabata (6-0 6-4). During the match Kikuchi scored 59 points vs Tabata’s 42. The Japanese was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about serving, Kikuchi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yuta Kikuchi lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Kikuchi put 71% of his first serves in, winning 66% (21/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (6/13) on the 2nd serve. Kikuchi broke Tabata 6 times after converting 35% of his break points (6/17).

The Japanese’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Wuning.

The Japanese has a compiled 31-20 win-loss record in 2025, 29-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger

Kikuchi has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Nakagawa	Kikuchi
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
Pts	55-36	59-42
Total Points	91	101
Winners	21	21
%Winners	38%	36%

Both Nakagawa and Kikuchi played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Nakagawa and Kikuchi have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (16). Nakagawa scored 21 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Kikuchi made 21 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Nakagawa	Kikuchi
Aces	3	1
Avg per match	3	1
1st in	26/46	32/45
%1st in	57%	71%
1st pts	21/26	21/32
%1st pts	81%	66%
2nd pts	7/20	6/13
%2nd pts	35%	46%

Nakagawa made 3 aces . Kikuchi scored 1 ace . Nakagawa won 81% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 35% of the points. On the other side, Kikuchi won 66% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Nakagawa	Kikuchi
Won	6	6
Converted	6/10	6/17
% Converted	60%	35%
Conceded	2	4
Saved	0	2
% Saved	0%	50%
Times Broken	2	2

Nakagawa broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Shunsuke surrendered his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent 6 times with a 35% conversion rate. Yuta conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Nakagawa
	Q1 Kawahashi	Total
Score	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	55-36	55-36
Total points	91	91
Winners	21	21
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	26/46	26/46
% 1st in	57%	57%
1st pts	21/26	21/26
% 1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	7/20	7/20
% 2nd pts	35%	35%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/10	6/10
Converted %	60%	60%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	0/2	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	2	2

Kikuchi
	Q1 Tabata	Total
Score	6-0 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	59-42	59-42
Total points	101	101
Winners	21	21
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	32/45	32/45
% 1st in	71%	71%
1st pts	21/32	21/32
% 1st pts	66%	66%
2nd pts	6/13	6/13
% 2nd pts	46%	46%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/17	6/17
Converted %	35%	35%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	2/4	2
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	2	2

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