Kaichi Uchida and Ryotaro Taguchi will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 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 Kaichi Uchida who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Kaichi Uchida is the pick to win this match.
Kaichi Uchida -> 1.2
Ryotaro Taguchi -> 3.94

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Prediction and head to head Kaichi Uchida vs. Ryotaro Taguchi

There is no head to head record between Kaichi Uchida and Ryotaro Taguchi since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Kaichi Uchida

Ranked no. 288, Uchida reached the 2^nd round after defeating Hyeon Chung 6-3 6-0.

In the 1^st round, Uchida had a good straight sets win against Chung (6-3 6-0). During the match, Uchida scored 61 points vs Chung’s 35. Kaichi was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Regarding the service games, Uchida blasted 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Kaichi Uchida was pretty effective on serve to win 76% (22/29) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Chung 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Uchida has favorable record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (346-311). 36-20 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Uchida has a composed 192-177 match record in the last years on hard.

The Japanese’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Nakhon Pathom,M25 Sapporo,M25 Takasaki and M25 Perth.

Uchida has an aggregate 44-30 win-loss record in 2025, 36-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokohama Challenger

Ryotaro Taguchi

Ranked no. 898, Ryotaro got to the 2^nd round after beating Sora Fukuda 6-7(7) 6-4 7-6(5), Yuta Kikuchi 4-6 6-3 6-3 and Maximus Jones 7-6(3) 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Ryotaro had a good straight sets win against Jones (7-6³ 6-2). During the match Taguchi scored 73 points vs Jones’s 57. Taguchi was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Taguchi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Ryotaro Taguchi was very effective on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 74% (17/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Taguchi broke Jones twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).

Taguchi has an overall 13-16 win-loss record in 2025, 12-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokohama Challenger

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

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Uchida	Taguchi
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	8
Tot Games	15	85
Pts	61-35	266-236
Total Points	96	502
Winners	22	127
%Winners	36%	48%

Uchida played 1 match while Taguchi competed in 3 matches. Taguchi started his run from the qualifications while Uchida had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Ryotaro Taguchi conceded 2 sets while Kaichi Uchida hasn’t dropped a set so far. Uchida has played 6 set(s) less than Taguchi (2 vs 8). Therefore, Uchida played 70 games less than Taguchi. Kaichi scored 22 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese bagged 127 winners (48%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Uchida	Taguchi
Aces	5	17
Avg per match	5	5.7
1st in	29/48	163/248
%1st in	60%	66%
1st pts	22/29	127/163
%1st pts	76%	78%
2nd pts	11/19	53/85
%2nd pts	58%	62%

Uchida recorded 5 aces . Taguchi bagged 17 aces (5.7 per match). Uchida won 76% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Taguchi won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Uchida	Taguchi
Won	5	8
Converted	5/10	8/14
% Converted	50%	57%
Conceded	4	10
Saved	3	7
% Saved	75%	70%
Times Broken	1	3

Uchida broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Kaichi conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Taguchi broke his opponents 8 times with a 57% conversion rate. Ryotaro conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded.

Uchida
	R1 Chung	Total
Score	6-3 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	61-35	61-35
Total points	96	96
Winners	22	22
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	29/48	29/48
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	22/29	22/29
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	11/19	11/19
% 2nd pts	58%	58%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/10	5/10
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

Taguchi
	Q1 Fukuda	Q3 Kikuchi	R1 Jones	Total
Score	6-77 6-4 7-65	4-6 6-3 6-3	7-63 6-2
Tot Set	3	3	2	8
Tot Games	36	28	21	85
pts	113-105	80-74	73-57	266-236
Total points	218	154	130	502
Winners	66	33	28	127
%Winners	58%	41%	38%	48%
SERVE
Aces	14	2	1	17
Double Faults	4	2	2	8
1st in	81/116	46/73	36/59	163/248
% 1st in	70%	63%	61%	66%
1st pts	66/81	33/46	28/36	127/163
% 1st pts	81%	72%	78%	78%
2nd pts	19/35	17/27	17/23	53/85
% 2nd pts	54%	63%	74%	62%
Breaks
Won	2	4	2	8
Converted	2/3	4/5	2/6	8/14
Converted %	67%	80%	33%	57%
Conceded	6	4	0	10
Saved	5/6	2/4	0/0	7
Saved %	83%	50%	–	133%
Times Broken	1	2	0	3

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• Yusuke KusuharaKusuhara – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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