Elias Ymer and Renta Tokuda will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Kobe Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elias Ymer who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elias Ymer is the pick to win this match.
Elias Ymer -> 1.49
Renta Tokuda -> 2.4

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Prediction and head to head Elias Ymer vs. Renta Tokuda

This will be the 3^rd time that Elias Ymer and Renta Tokuda play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Ymer (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they played, Ymer won 5-7 6-1 6-0 in the 1^st round in the Seoul Challenger back in October 2025.

Elias Ymer

Ranked no. 191, Elias got to the 2^nd round after beating Ryan Peniston 6-2 6-7(4) 1-1 ret..

In the 1^st round against Peniston, the Swede had a free pass after Peniston retired on a 6-2 6-7⁴ 1-1 . scoreline.

Ymer has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (318-287). 4-2 on indoor hard courts in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ymer has a composed 64-55 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

The Swede’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Chennai Challenger.

Ymer has a composed 32-29 win-loss record in 2025, 4-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Kobe Challenger

Renta Tokuda

Ranked no. 308, Renta got to the 2^nd round after beating Ryotaro Taguchi 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Taguchi (6-3 6-4). During the match Tokuda scored 62 points vs Taguchi’s 44. The Japanese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.

About the serving games, Tokuda made 11 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Renta Tokuda was quite effective on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 82% (14/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Tokuda broke Taguchi twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Tokuda’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Tashkent,M15 Tokyo and M25 Sapporo.

Tokuda has an overall 60-21 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Kobe Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3^rd round in 2019. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Ymer	Tokuda
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	4	2
Tot Games	23	19
Pts	79-76	62-44
Total Points	155	106
Winners	33	26
%Winners	42%	42%

Both Ymer and Tokuda played 1 match. At the moment, Elias Ymer dropped 1 set while Renta Tokuda hasn’t lost a set so far. Ymer has played 2 sets more than Tokuda (4 vs 2). Therefore, Ymer played 4 games more than Tokuda. Ymer scored 33 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese struck 26 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Ymer	Tokuda
Aces	3	11
Avg per match	3	11
1st in	41/78	33/50
%1st in	53%	66%
1st pts	33/41	26/33
%1st pts	80%	79%
2nd pts	15/37	14/17
%2nd pts	41%	82%

Ymer recorded 3 aces . Tokuda recorded 11 aces . Ymer won 80% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 41% of the points. On the other side, Tokuda won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 82% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Ymer	Tokuda
Won	4	2
Converted	4/11	2/3
% Converted	36%	67%
Conceded	5	0
Saved	3	0
% Saved	60%	0%
Times Broken	2	0

Ymer broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Ymer conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Tokuda broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Tokuda was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Ymer
	R1 Peniston	Total
Score	6-2 6-74 1-1 ret.
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	23	23
pts	79-76	79-76
Total points	155	155
Winners	33	33
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	7	7
1st in	41/78	41/78
% 1st in	53%	53%
1st pts	33/41	33/41
% 1st pts	80%	80%
2nd pts	15/37	15/37
% 2nd pts	41%	41%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/11	4/11
Converted %	36%	36%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	3/5	3
Saved %	60%	60%
Times Broken	2	2

Tokuda
	R1 Taguchi	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	62-44	62-44
Total points	106	106
Winners	26	26
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	11	11
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	33/50	33/50
% 1st in	66%	66%
1st pts	26/33	26/33
% 1st pts	79%	79%
2nd pts	14/17	14/17
% 2nd pts	82%	82%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/3	2/3
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger

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• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Hyeon ChungChung (1-6 6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Hugo GrenierGrenier – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Elias YmerYmer – Renta TokudaTokuda (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Hugo GrenierGrenier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-0) – H2H and prediction