Ryan Peniston and Takuya Kumasaka will square off in the 1st round of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ryan Peniston who should win in 2 sets.
Ryan Peniston -> 1.38
Takuya Kumasaka -> 2.76
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Prediction and head to head Ryan Peniston vs. Takuya Kumasaka
There is no head to head record between Ryan Peniston and Takuya Kumasaka since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Ryan Peniston
50 - 21win/loss
200
123
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53-23 | 45-15 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-24 | 27-16 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-29 | 20-12 | 1-8 | 7-4 | 3-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-26 | 4-8 | 5-4 | 13-9 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-23 | 25-9 | 12-4 | 9-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 194, Ryan will start his run in the Matsuyama Challenger after he played his last match in the Hersonissos 6 Challenger where he lost 7-5 7-6(2) to Andaloro in the 2nd round on the 15th of October.
The Brit has an aggregate 50-21 win-loss record in 2025, 42-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Hersonissos 5 Challenger where he beat Kimmer Coppejans in the final 6-3 7-5.
Talking about his overall career, Ryan has an overall 314-191 record. He has a positive 213-101 record on hard.
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Ryan has never competed in this tournament before.
Takuya Kumasaka
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44-21 | 44-21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-22 | 31-19 | 2-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-24 | 18-12 | 15-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-14 | 22-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-8 | 8-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 498, Takuya got to the 1st round after beating Taku Ito 6-2 6-0 and Hayato Matsuoka 5-7 6-1 7-6(2).
In the qualifications against Matsuoka, Kumasaka recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-1 7-62). During the match Kumasaka scored 136 points vs Matsuoka’s 120. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 52 winners.
Talking about serving, Kumasaka recorded 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Takuya Kumasaka lost the serve 6 times and he saved 12 break points. Furthermore, Kumasaka put 64% of his first serves in, winning 60% (52/86) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (22/49) on the 2nd serve. Kumasaka broke Matsuoka 7 times after converting 41% of his break points (7/17).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kumasaka started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Takuya’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in Tokyo,M15 Tsukuba and M15 Nakhon Pathom.
Takuya has an overall 43-19 win-loss record in 2025, 43-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Matsuyama Challenger
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Hynek BartonBarton (7-67 1-6 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Henrique RochaRocha – Kokoro IsomuraIsomura (5-7 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- 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
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sanhui ShinShin – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Moerani BouzigeBouzige – Renta TokudaTokuda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi – Hugo GrenierGrenier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Takuya KumasakaKumasaka – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max BasingBasing – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (0-0) – H2H and prediction