Maximus Jones and Ryotaro Taguchi will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on COURT 1. 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 Maximus Jones who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Maximus Jones is the pick to win this match.
Maximus Jones -> 1.29
Ryotaro Taguchi -> 3.2

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Prediction and head to head Maximus Jones vs. Ryotaro Taguchi

This will be the 3^rd time that Maximus Jones and Ryotaro Taguchi clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Taguchi (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Taguchi won 7-6(3) 7-5 in the qualifications in M25 Kashiwa back in 2023.

Maximus Jones

Ranked no. 353 (career-high), Jones will start his run in the Yokohama Challenger after he played his last match in the Kobe Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-3 6-4 to Shimabukuro in the 2^nd round on the 13^th of November.

Maximus has a composed 36-27 win-loss record in 2025, 23-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the year was winning the title the Abidjan 1 Challenger where he beat Ricardas Berankis in the final 6-3 4-6 6-4.

Talking about his overall career, Jones has an overall 131-124 record. He has a positive 106-92 record on hard.

Previously in the Yokohama Challenger

The Thai has never competed in this tournament before.

Ryotaro Taguchi

Ranked no. 898, Ryotaro reached the 1^st round after defeating Sora Fukuda 6-7(7) 6-4 7-6(5) and Yuta Kikuchi 4-6 6-3 6-3.

In the qualifications against Kikuchi, Ryotaro recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-3). During the match Taguchi scored 80 points vs Kikuchi’s 74. Taguchi was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.

About the serving games, Taguchi blasted 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Ryotaro Taguchi was pretty efficient on serve to win 72% (33/46) of his 1st serve and 63% (17/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Ryotaro broke Kikuchi 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.

Taguchi has a composed 12-16 win-loss record in 2025, 11-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokohama Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See his history.

Tennis Scores in Yokohama Challenger

• Maxim ZhukovZhukov – Ryo TabataTabata (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (6-4 7-6¹¹) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Akira SantillanSantillan – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Neil OberleitnerOberleitner – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Kasidit SamrejSamrej – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Max BasingBasing – Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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