Yasutaka Uchiyama and Michael Vrbensky will face off in the 2^nd round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yasutaka Uchiyama who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yasutaka Uchiyama is the pick to win this match.
Yasutaka Uchiyama -> 1.285
Michael Vrbensky -> 3.24

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Prediction and head to head Yasutaka Uchiyama vs. Michael Vrbensky

There is no head to head record between Yasutaka Uchiyama and Michael Vrbensky since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Yasutaka Uchiyama

Ranked no. 330, Yasutaka got to the 2^nd round after beating Tsung-Hao Huang 6-4 7-6(11).

In the 1^st round, Uchiyama had a good straight sets win against Huang (6-4 7-6¹¹). During the match, Uchiyama scored 92 points vs Huang’s 84. Yasutaka was extremely aggressive to blast 41 winners.

Regarding the service games, Uchiyama bagged 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Yasutaka Uchiyama was exceptionally effective on serve to win 75% (41/55) of his 1st serve and 61% (19/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Uchiyama broke Huang twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Uchiyama has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 52% of his matches (256-239). 18-21 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Uchiyama has an aggregate 195-155 match record in the last years on hard.

Yasutaka’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Shanghai Challenger.

Yasutaka has an aggregate 22-28 win-loss record in 2025, 18-21 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokohama Challenger

Michael Vrbensky

Ranked no. 636, Vrbensky reached the 2^nd round after defeating Ramkumar Ramanathan 7-5 6-4, Thijmen Loof 6-3 6-3 and Woobin Shin 6-3 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Michael had a good straight sets win against Shin (6-3 6-3). During the match Vrbensky scored 58 points vs Shin’s 44. The Czech was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Vrbensky recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Michael Vrbensky lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Vrbensky put 73% of his first serves in, winning 70% (28/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the 2nd serve. Vrbensky broke Shin 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Michael’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in M15 Opatija.

The Czech has an aggregate 27-30 win-loss record in 2025, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokohama Challenger

Vrbensky has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Uchiyama	Vrbensky
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	6
Tot Games	23	58
Pts	92-84	196-151
Total Points	176	347
Winners	41	80
%Winners	45%	41%

Uchiyama played 1 match while Vrbensky competed in 3 matches. Vrbensky started his run from the qualifications while Uchiyama had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Uchiyama has played 4 set(s) less than Vrbensky (2 vs 6). Therefore, Uchiyama played 35 games less than Vrbensky. The Japanese scored 41 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Michael scored 80 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Uchiyama	Vrbensky
Aces	5	13
Avg per match	5	4.3
1st in	55/86	110/164
%1st in	64%	67%
1st pts	41/55	80/110
%1st pts	75%	73%
2nd pts	19/31	32/54
%2nd pts	61%	59%

Uchiyama made 5 aces . Vrbensky bagged 13 aces (4.3 per match). Uchiyama won 75% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Vrbensky won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Uchiyama	Vrbensky
Won	2	12
Converted	2/5	12/25
% Converted	40%	48%
Conceded	5	12
Saved	4	8
% Saved	80%	67%
Times Broken	1	4

Yasutaka broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Uchiyama dropped his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Michael broke his opponents 12 times with a 48% conversion rate. Vrbensky conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Uchiyama
	R1 Huang	Total
Score	6-4 7-611
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	23	23
pts	92-84	92-84
Total points	176	176
Winners	41	41
%Winners	45%	45%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	55/86	55/86
% 1st in	64%	64%
1st pts	41/55	41/55
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	19/31	19/31
% 2nd pts	61%	61%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/5	2/5
Converted %	40%	40%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	4/5	4
Saved %	80%	80%
Times Broken	1	1

Vrbensky
	Q1 Ramanathan	Q3 Loof	R1 Shin	Total
Score	7-5 6-4	6-3 6-3	6-3 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	22	18	18	58
pts	73-56	65-51	58-44	196-151
Total points	129	116	102	347
Winners	32	20	28	80
%Winners	44%	31%	48%	41%
SERVE
Aces	10	1	2	13
Double Faults	2	2	1	5
1st in	38/59	32/50	40/55	110/164
% 1st in	64%	64%	73%	67%
1st pts	32/38	20/32	28/40	80/110
% 1st pts	84%	63%	70%	73%
2nd pts	12/21	12/18	8/15	32/54
% 2nd pts	57%	67%	53%	59%
Breaks
Won	3	5	4	12
Converted	3/6	5/14	4/5	12/25
Converted %	50%	36%	80%	48%
Conceded	3	3	6	12
Saved	2/3	1/3	5/6	8
Saved %	67%	33%	83%	183%
Times Broken	1	2	1	4

Tennis Scores in Yokohama Challenger

• 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
• Ryotaro TaguchiTaguchi – Maximus JonesJones (7-6³ 6-2) – 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
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (6-4 7-6¹¹) – 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