Hynek Barton and Ji Sung Nam will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Kobe Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT B. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Hynek Barton who should win in 2 sets.
Hynek Barton -> 1.35
Ji Sung Nam -> 2.88
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Prediction and head to head Hynek Barton vs. Ji Sung Nam
This will be the 2nd time that Hynek Barton and Ji Sung Nam play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Barton (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Barton won 5-7 6-3 6-1 in the qualifications in the Poznan Challenger back in 2024.
Hynek Barton
47 - 27win/loss
295
292
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48-28 | 17-10 | 30-17 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-23 | 9-4 | 21-13 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2023 | 45-26 | 11-5 | 25-16 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 13-4 | 0-0 | 13-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 296, the Czech will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Matsuyama Challenger where he lost 7-6(7) 1-6 7-6(3) to Crawford in the 1st round on the 3rd of November.
Hynek has a compiled 47-27 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
Barton’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Doha,M25 Santa margherita di Pula,the Tampere Challenger and the Hersonissos 5 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Hynek has an overall 136-80 record. He has a negative 7-9 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
The Czech has never competed in this tournament before.
Ji Sung Nam
22 - 14win/loss
692
236
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-16 | 18-12 | 0-1 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 14-21 | 12-10 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-6 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 15-20 | 13-15 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-19 | 24-13 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 4-7 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 719, Sung Nam reached the 1st round after defeating Tsung-Hao Huang 6-2 6-3 and Duje Ajdukovic 6-4 5-7 6-4.
In the qualifications, Ji defeated Ajdukovic (6-4 5-7 6-4).During the match Sung Nam scored less points (7) than Ajdukovic. In fact, the world no. 296 won 100 points vs Ajdukovic’s. That means that Sung Nam was more focused during the important points. Sung Nam was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.
About the serving games, Sung Nam fired 5 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Ji Sung Nam lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Sung Nam put 49% of his first serves in, winning 72% (38/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (26/56) on the 2nd serve. Sung Nam broke Ajdukovic 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sung Nam started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Sung Nam’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Daegu.
The Korean has an overall 22-14 win-loss record in 2025, 5-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hyeon ChungChung – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jason JungJung – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elias YmerYmer – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Igor Ribeiro MarcondesRibeiro Marcondes – Hugo GrenierGrenier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Hyeon ChungChung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Garrett JohnsJohns – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max BasingBasing – (0-0) – H2H and prediction