Neil Oberleitner and Taisei Ichikawa will square off in the 1^st round of the Taipei Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Neil Oberleitner who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Neil Oberleitner is the pick to win this match.
Neil Oberleitner -> 1.56
Taisei Ichikawa -> 2.24

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Prediction and head to head Neil Oberleitner vs. Taisei Ichikawa

There is no head to head record between Neil Oberleitner and Taisei Ichikawa since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Neil Oberleitner

Ranked no. 429, Neil will start his run in the Taipei Challenger after he played his last match in the Seoul Challenger where he lost 6-3 4-6 6-1 to Sung Nam in the qualifications on the 26^th of October.

Neil has an aggregate 37-31 win-loss record in 2025, 0-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Oberleitner’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Nyiregyhaza and M15 Vienna.

Talking about his overall career, The Austrian has an overall 238-208 record. He has a positive 19-16 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in the Taipei Challenger

Neil has never competed in this tournament before.

Taisei Ichikawa

Ranked no. 842, Ichikawa reached the 1^st round after defeating Daiki Yoshimura 7-5 6-2 and Kristjan Tamm 7-6(4) 6-3.

In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Tamm (7-6⁴ 6-3). During the match Ichikawa scored 91 points vs Tamm’s 82. Taisei was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.

About the serving games, Ichikawa blasted 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Taisei Ichikawa was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (34/45) of his 1st serve and 53% (21/40) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Tamm twice after converting 17% of his break points (2/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Taisei started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 54% of the points he played.

Taisei has an overall 23-21 win-loss record in 2025, 5-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Taipei Challenger

• James McCabeMcCabe – Cing-Yang MengMeng (6-7⁵ 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Evan ZhuZhu (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Taro DanielDaniel (2-6 7-6² 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Uisung ParkPark – Elias YmerYmer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Kuan-Yi LeeLee (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Akira SantillanSantillan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Shinji HazawaHazawa – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Taisei IchikawaIchikawa – Neil OberleitnerOberleitner (0-0) – H2H and prediction