Elias Ymer and Marc-Andrea Huesler will play each other in the quarter of the Kobe Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 4:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Marc-Andrea Huesler who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Marc-Andrea Huesler is the pick to win this match.
Marc-Andrea Huesler -> 1.58
Elias Ymer -> 2.2

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Prediction and head to head Elias Ymer vs. Marc-Andrea Huesler

This will be the 2^nd time that Elias Ymer and Marc-Andrea Huesler face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Ymer (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they fought against each other, Ymer won 1-6 6-3 6-2 in the qualifications in at the Australian Open Qualifying back in 2021.

Elias Ymer

Ranked no. 191, Ymer got to the quarter after defeating Ryan Peniston 6-2 6-7(4) 1-1 ret. and Renta Tokuda 6-1 0-1 ret..

In the 2^nd round against Tokuda, Elias had a free pass after Tokuda retired on a 6-1 0-1 . scoreline.

Ymer has good record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (319-287). 5-2 on indoor hard courts in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Ymer has a composed 65-55 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

The Swede’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Chennai Challenger.

The Swede has a composed 33-29 win-loss record in 2025, 5-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Kobe Challenger

Marc-Andrea Huesler

Ranked no. 252, the Swiss reached the quarter after beating Garrett Johns 6-3 7-5 and Yoshihito Nishioka w/o.

In the 2^nd round, The Swiss defeated Nishioka (w/o). During the match Huesler and Nishioka scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 191 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Marc-Andrea was not very aggressive do strike just winners.

Talking about serving, Huesler was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Marc-Andrea Huesler conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Cuernavaca Challenger where he defeated Dmitry Popko in the final 6-4 3-6 6-4.

Huesler has an overall 25-26 win-loss record in 2025, 5-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Kobe Challenger

Marc-Andrea has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Ymer	Huesler
Match played	2	1
Tot Set	7	2
Tot Games	31	21
Pts	108-94	77-60
Total Points	202	137
Winners	44	28
%Winners	41%	36%

Ymer played 2 matches while Huesler competed in 1 match. At the moment, Elias Ymer lost 2 sets while Marc-Andrea Huesler hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Ymer has played 5 sets more than Huesler (7 vs 2). Therefore, Ymer played 10 games more than Huesler. Elias scored 44 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Swiss struck 28 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Ymer	Huesler
Aces	6	8
Avg per match	3	8
1st in	54/101	39/63
%1st in	53%	62%
1st pts	44/54	28/39
%1st pts	81%	72%
2nd pts	21/47	18/24
%2nd pts	45%	75%

Ymer managed to score 6 aces (3 per match). Huesler fired 8 aces . Ymer won 81% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Huesler won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 75% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Ymer	Huesler
Won	6	3
Converted	6/14	3/11
% Converted	43%	27%
Conceded	5	2
Saved	3	1
% Saved	60%	50%
Times Broken	2	1

Elias broke his opponents 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. Elias conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Marc-Andrea broke his opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. Huesler conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Ymer
	R1 Peniston	R2 Tokuda	Total
Score	6-2 6-74 1-1 ret.	6-1 0-1 ret.
Tot Set	3	2	5
Tot Games	23	8	31
pts	79-76	29-18	108-94
Total points	155	47	202
Winners	33	11	44
%Winners	42%	38%	41%
SERVE
Aces	3	3	6
Double Faults	7	1	8
1st in	41/78	13/23	54/101
% 1st in	53%	57%	53%
1st pts	33/41	11/13	44/54
% 1st pts	80%	85%	81%
2nd pts	15/37	6/10	21/47
% 2nd pts	41%	60%	45%
Breaks
Won	4	2	6
Converted	4/11	2/3	6/14
Converted %	36%	67%	43%
Conceded	5	0	5
Saved	3/5	0/0	3
Saved %	60%	–	30%
Times Broken	2	0	2

Huesler
	R1 Johns	R2 Nishioka	Total
Score	6-3 7-5	w/o
Tot Set	2	–	2
Tot Games	21	–	21
pts	77-60	–	77-60
Total points	137	–	137
Winners	28	–	28
%Winners	36%	–	36%
SERVE
Aces	8	–	8
Double Faults	2	–	2
1st in	39/63	–	39/63
% 1st in	62%	–	62%
1st pts	28/39	–	28/39
% 1st pts	72%	–	72%
2nd pts	18/24	–	18/24
% 2nd pts	75%	–	75%
Breaks
Won	3	–	3
Converted	3/11	–	3/11
Converted %	27%	–	27%
Conceded	2	–	2
Saved	1/2	–	1
Saved %	50%	–	25%
Times Broken	1	–	1

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