Akira Santillan and Kaylan Bigun will face off in the 2nd round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Akira Santillan who should win in 2 sets.
Akira Santillan -> 1.31
Kaylan Bigun -> 3.08
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Prediction and head to head Akira Santillan vs. Kaylan Bigun
There is no head to head record between Akira Santillan and Kaylan Bigun since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Akira Santillan
59 - 21win/loss
348
144
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59-21 | 31-12 | 6-2 | 22-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 3-7 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-33 | 11-13 | 21-14 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-28 | 28-19 | 9-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 20-15 | 2-5 | 12-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 348, Akira reached the 2nd round after defeating Masamichi Imamura 6-0 6-2.
In the 1st round, Santillan had a good straight sets win against Imamura (6-0 6-2). During the match, Santillan scored 54 points vs Imamura’s 28. Akira was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Santillan fired 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Akira Santillan was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (22/28) of his 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Akira broke Imamura 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Santillan has good match record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (300-217). 31-12 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Santillan has a composed 173-119 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Akira’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya,M15 Maanshan,M25 Yinchuan and M25 Huzhou.
The Australian has a compiled 59-21 win-loss record in 2025, 31-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokohama Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Kaylan Bigun
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-18 | 13-15 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 8-15 | 2-7 | 6-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 2-9 | 0-2 | 1-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 3-7 | 1-3 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 743, the American got to the 2nd round after beating Elias Ymer 3-0 ret..
In the 1st round against Ymer, Kaylan had a free pass after Ymer retired on a 3-0 . scoreline.
Kaylan’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Southaven.
Bigun has a compiled 15-18 win-loss record in 2025, 13-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Santillan | Bigun |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 3 |
| Pts | 54-28 | 12-3 |
| Total Points | 82 | 15 |
| Winners | 22 | 6 |
| %Winners | 41% | 50% |
Both Santillan and Bigun played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Santillan and Bigun have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Santillan played 11 games more than Bigun. The Australian scored 22 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Kaylan recorded 6 winners (50%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Santillan | Bigun |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
| 1st in | 28/41 | 6/9 |
| %1st in | 68% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 22/28 | 6/6 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 100% |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 2/3 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 67% |
Santillan scored 2 aces . Bigun recorded 2 aces . Santillan won 79% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Bigun won 100% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Santillan | Bigun |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 1 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 1/1 |
| % Converted | 71% | 100% |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The Australian broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Santillan had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. The American broke his opponent once with a 100% conversion rate. Bigun was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Santillan | |||
| R1 Imamura | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 54-28 | 54-28 | |
| Total points | 82 | 82 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 28/41 | 28/41 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 22/28 | 22/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 8/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Bigun | |||
| R1 Ymer | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-0 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 1 | 1 | |
| Tot Games | 3 | 3 | |
| pts | 12-3 | 12-3 | |
| Total points | 15 | 15 | |
| Winners | 6 | 6 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 6/6 | 6/6 | |
| % 1st pts | 100% | 100% | |
| 2nd pts | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/1 | 1/1 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Tennis Scores in Yokohama Challenger
- Ryotaro TaguchiTaguchi – Maximus JonesJones (7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi – Max BasingBasing (2-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Jumpei YamasakiYamasaki (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (4-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Kaylan BigunBigun – Elias YmerYmer (3-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Yusuke KusuharaKusuhara – Kokoro IsomuraIsomura (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Michael VrbenskyVrbensky – Woobin ShinShin (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Hyeon ChungChung (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Rei SakamotoSakamoto – Kasidit SamrejSamrej (6-4 7-61) – See score progression
- Sanhui ShinShin – Lennon Roark JonesRoark Jones (3-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Neil OberleitnerOberleitner – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Igor Ribeiro MarcondesRibeiro Marcondes – Oliver CrawfordCrawford (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (6-4 7-611) – See score progression
- Maxim ZhukovZhukov – Ryo TabataTabata (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Akira SantillanSantillan – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Sanhui ShinShin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Akira SantillanSantillan – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Igor Ribeiro MarcondesRibeiro Marcondes – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi – Neil OberleitnerOberleitner (1-0) – H2H and prediction