Max Basing and Ryuki Matsuda will square off in the 1^st round of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 8. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Max Basing who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Max Basing is the pick to win this match.
Max Basing -> 1.184
Ryuki Matsuda -> 4.15

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Prediction and head to head Max Basing vs. Ryuki Matsuda

There is no head to head record between Max Basing and Ryuki Matsuda since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Max Basing

Ranked no. 442, Max got to the 1^st round after beating Taketo Takamisawa 6-3 7-5 and Naoya Honda 6-0 6-1.

In the qualifications, Basing had a good straight sets win against Honda (6-0 6-1). During the match, Basing scored 57 points vs Honda’s 29. Basing was quite aggressive to blast 16 winners.

Regarding the service games, Basing scored just 1 ace during the match and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Max Basing conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Basing put 64% of his first serves in, winning 64% (16/25) of the points behind his 1st serve and 93% (13/14) on the 2nd serve. Max broke Honda 5 times after converting 38% of his break points (5/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Max started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 59% of the points he played.

Basing has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 69% of his matches (78-35). 30-6 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Basing has an overall67-25 record in the last 6 years on hard.

Max’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Bali,M15 Nakhon Pathom and M25 Bali.

Max has a composed 30-6 win-loss record in 2025, 30-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger

The Brit has never competed in this tournament before.

Ryuki Matsuda

Ranked no. 545, the Japanese got to the 1^st round after beating Kosuke Ogura 6-4 4-6 6-4 and Saki Tange 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Tange (6-2 6-3). During the match Matsuda scored 68 points vs Tange’s 49. Matsuda was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Matsuda scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Ryuki Matsuda was very efficient on serve to win 74% (26/35) of his 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Tange 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Matsuda started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

The Japanese’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Heraklion and M25 Heraklion.

Ryuki has an aggregate 27-29 win-loss record in 2025, 25-23 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Basing	Matsuda
Match played	2	2
Tot Set	4	5
Tot Games	34	47
Pts	134-92	198-170
Total Points	226	368
Winners	52	69
%Winners	39%	35%

Both Basing and Matsuda played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Ryuki Matsuda dropped 1 set while Max Basing hasn’t conceded a set so far. Basing has played 1 set(s) less than Matsuda (4 vs 5). Therefore, Basing played 13 games less than Matsuda. The Brit scored 52 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese scored 69 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Basing	Matsuda
Aces	2	7
Avg per match	1	3.5
1st in	78/117	114/195
%1st in	67%	58%
1st pts	52/78	69/114
%1st pts	67%	61%
2nd pts	23/39	45/81
%2nd pts	59%	56%

Basing managed to score 2 aces (1 per match). Matsuda bagged 7 aces (3.5 per match). Basing won 67% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Matsuda won 61% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Basing	Matsuda
Won	10	11
Converted	10/21	11/28
% Converted	48%	39%
Conceded	10	25
Saved	7	18
% Saved	70%	72%
Times Broken	3	7

The Brit broke his opponents 10 times with a 48% conversion rate. Max surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponents 11 times with a 39% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 72% of the break points that he conceded.

Basing
	Q1 Takamisawa	Q3 Honda	Total
Score	6-3 7-5	6-0 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	21	13	34
pts	77-63	57-29	134-92
Total points	140	86	226
Winners	36	16	52
%Winners	47%	28%	39%
SERVE
Aces	1	1	2
Double Faults	2	0	2
1st in	53/78	25/39	78/117
% 1st in	68%	64%	67%
1st pts	36/53	16/25	52/78
% 1st pts	68%	64%	67%
2nd pts	10/25	13/14	23/39
% 2nd pts	40%	93%	59%
Breaks
Won	5	5	10
Converted	5/8	5/13	10/21
Converted %	63%	38%	48%
Conceded	9	1	10
Saved	6/9	1/1	7
Saved %	67%	100%	84%
Times Broken	3	0	3

Matsuda
	Q1 Ogura	Q3 Tange	Total
Score	6-4 4-6 6-4	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	3	2	5
Tot Games	30	17	47
pts	130-121	68-49	198-170
Total points	251	117	368
Winners	43	26	69
%Winners	33%	38%	35%
SERVE
Aces	6	1	7
Double Faults	5	0	5
1st in	79/136	35/59	114/195
% 1st in	58%	59%	58%
1st pts	43/79	26/35	69/114
% 1st pts	54%	74%	61%
2nd pts	29/57	16/24	45/81
% 2nd pts	51%	67%	56%
Breaks
Won	8	3	11
Converted	8/21	3/7	11/28
Converted %	38%	43%	39%
Conceded	24	1	25
Saved	17/24	1/1	18
Saved %	71%	100%	86%
Times Broken	7	0	7

Tennis Scores in Matsuyama Challenger

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• Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Sho KatayamaKatayama (6-4 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Garrett JohnsJohns – Maximus JonesJones (6-4 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

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