Kaichi Uchida and Yusuke Takahashi will play each other in the 1st round of the Kobe Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on COURT B. 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 Kaichi Uchida who should win in 3 sets.
Kaichi Uchida -> 1.43
Yusuke Takahashi -> 2.58
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Prediction and head to head Kaichi Uchida vs. Yusuke Takahashi
This will be the 4th time that Kaichi Uchida and Yusuke Takahashi fight against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Uchida (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Uchida won 6-2 6-2
in the quarter in M25 Sapporo back in September 2025.Kaichi Uchida
40 - 29win/loss
288
147
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43-30 | 35-20 | 0-3 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2024 | 42-30 | 18-22 | 16-6 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-33 | 4-18 | 3-10 | 9-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-34 | 24-23 | 8-5 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-26 | 27-13 | 6-11 | 1-2 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 309, Uchida will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Taipei Challenger where he lost 6-3 7-6(2) to Duckworth in the quarter on the 7th of November.
Kaichi has a composed 40-29 win-loss record in 2025, 4-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Kaichi’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Nakhon Pathom,M25 Sapporo,M25 Takasaki and M25 Perth.
Talking about his overall career, Uchida has an overall 433-403 record. He has a flat 49-49 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022, 2023 and 2024. See his history.
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44-26 | 40-24 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-28 | 25-25 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 33-28 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-22 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-23 | 18-21 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 428, the Japanese got to the 1st round after defeating Koki Matsuda 6-3 6-2 and Hikaru Shiraishi 2-6 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications against Shiraishi, The Japanese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-3 6-3). During the match Takahashi scored 84 points vs Shiraishi’s 83. Takahashi was quite aggressive to blast 44 winners.
Talking about serving, Takahashi struck 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Yusuke Takahashi lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Takahashi put 68% of his first serves in, winning 73% (44/60) of the points behind his 1st serve and 32% (9/28) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Shiraishi 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Takahashi 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.
Takahashi’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Kashiwa and M15 Osaka.
Yusuke has an overall 44-24 win-loss record in 2025, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2016, 2017 and 2019. See his history.
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