Rei Sakamoto and Kasidit Samrej will square off in the 1st round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rei Sakamoto who should win in 2 sets.
Rei Sakamoto -> 1.22
Kasidit Samrej -> 3.74
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Prediction and head to head Rei Sakamoto vs. Kasidit Samrej
There is no head to head record between Rei Sakamoto and Kasidit Samrej since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Rei Sakamoto
30 - 26win/loss
176
174
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-26 | 22-16 | 3-3 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 20-16 | 12-11 | 6-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 7-11 | 1-4 | 5-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-6 | 5-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 176, Rei will start his run in the Yokohama Challenger after he played his last match in the Kobe Challenger where he lost 4-6 6-1 7-6(11) to Hsin in the quarter on the 14th of November.
Sakamoto has an overall 29-26 win-loss record in 2025, 22-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was winning the title the Cary Challenger where he beat Liam Draxl in the final 6-1 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 61-59 record. He has a positive 40-34 record on hard.
Previously in the Yokohama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.
Kasidit Samrej
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-30 | 28-25 | 0-0 | 19-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-23 | 34-19 | 0-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-20 | 23-19 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-16 | 25-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-4 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 414, Kasidit will start his run in the Yokohama Challenger after he played his last match in the Kobe Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4
to Ribeiro Marcondes in the qualifications on the 10th of November.Samrej has a compiled 47-30 win-loss record in 2025, 28-25 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Kasidit’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Maanshan and M15 Singapore.
In terms of his career, Samrej has an overall 155-116 record. He has a positive 132-106 record on hard.
Previously in the Yokohama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Yokohama Challenger
- 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
- Maxim ZhukovZhukov – Ryo TabataTabata (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hyeon ChungChung – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jumpei YamasakiYamasaki – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Igor Ribeiro MarcondesRibeiro Marcondes (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- 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
- Woobin ShinShin – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (0-0) – H2H and prediction