Rei Sakamoto and Max Basing will play each other in the 1^st round of the Kobe Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rei Sakamoto who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Rei Sakamoto is the pick to win this match.
Rei Sakamoto -> 1.79
Max Basing -> 1.89

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Prediction and head to head Rei Sakamoto vs. Max Basing

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

Rei Sakamoto

Ranked no. 180, Rei will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Bratislava 2 Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-2 to Krajci in the qualifications on the 26^th of October.

Sakamoto has an overall 27-25 win-loss record in 2025, 2-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Cary Challenger where he overcame Liam Draxl in the final 6-1 6-4.

Talking about his overall career, Rei has an overall 59-58 record. He has a negative 5-10 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in the Kobe Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2024. See his history.

Max Basing

Ranked no. 416 (career-high), Max got to the 1^st round after defeating Masamichi Imamura 4-6 6-3 7-6(5) and Akira Santillan 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications, Basing had a good straight sets win against Santillan (6-2 6-3). During the match Basing scored 73 points vs Santillan’s 54. Max was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about serving, Basing scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Max Basing lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Basing put 70% of his first serves in, winning 64% (27/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the 2nd serve. Basing broke Santillan 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Brit 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 Brit’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Bali,M15 Nakhon Pathom and M25 Bali.

The Brit has a composed 33-7 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Kobe Challenger

The Brit has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger

• Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hyeon ChungChung – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (7-6⁵ 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