Akira Santillan and Yusuke Kusuhara will play each other in the quarter of the Yokohama Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:30 pm 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.

As per the initial odds, Akira Santillan is the pick to win this match.
Akira Santillan -> 1.27
Yusuke Kusuhara -> 3.34

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Prediction and head to head Akira Santillan vs. Yusuke Kusuhara

There is no head to head record between Akira Santillan and Yusuke Kusuhara since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Akira Santillan

Ranked no. 348, Akira got to the quarter after defeating Masamichi Imamura 6-0 6-2 and Kaylan Bigun 6-3 6-1.

In the 2^nd round, Santillan had a good straight sets win against Bigun (6-3 6-1). During the match, Santillan scored 62 points vs Bigun’s 37. Santillan was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about the service games, Santillan fired 11 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Akira Santillan was very effective on serve to win 84% (26/31) of his 1st serve and 78% (7/9) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Akira broke Bigun 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Australian hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 64% of the points he played.

Santillan has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (301-217). 32-12 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Santillan has a compiled 174-119 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

The Australian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Antalya,M15 Maanshan,M25 Yinchuan and M25 Huzhou.

The Australian has an aggregate 60-21 win-loss record in 2025, 32-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokohama Challenger

Santillan has never competed in this tournament before.

Yusuke Kusuhara

Ranked no. 744, the Japanese got to the quarter after beating Gai Ando 6-0 6-1, Koki Matsuda 6-7(2) 6-1 6-2, Kokoro Isomura 7-5 6-3 and Yuta Shimizu 6-3 6-3.

In the 2^nd round, Yusuke had a good straight sets win against Shimizu (6-3 6-3). During the match Kusuhara scored 61 points vs Shimizu’s 47. Yusuke was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about serving, Kusuhara managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yusuke Kusuhara lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Kusuhara put 60% of his first serves in, winning 67% (22/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Shimizu 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 58% of the points he played.

The Japanese’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Harmon and M15 Tanagura.

Kusuhara has a compiled 40-16 win-loss record in 2025, 40-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Santillan	Kusuhara
Match played	2	4
Tot Set	4	9
Tot Games	30	80
Pts	116-65	276-200
Total Points	181	476
Winners	48	113
%Winners	41%	41%

Santillan played 2 matches while Kusuhara competed in 4 matches. Kusuhara started his run from the qualifications while Santillan had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Yusuke Kusuhara lost 1 set while Akira Santillan hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Santillan has played 5 set(s) less than Kusuhara (4 vs 9). Therefore, Santillan played 50 games less than Kusuhara. Santillan scored 48 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Yusuke bagged 113 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Santillan	Kusuhara
Aces	13	23
Avg per match	6.5	5.8
1st in	59/81	157/256
%1st in	73%	61%
1st pts	48/59	113/157
%1st pts	81%	72%
2nd pts	15/22	63/99
%2nd pts	68%	64%

Santillan made 13 aces (6.5 per match). Kusuhara managed to score 23 aces (5.8 per match). Santillan won 81% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Kusuhara won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Santillan	Kusuhara
Won	9	17
Converted	9/16	17/29
% Converted	56%	59%
Conceded	0	16
Saved	0	13
% Saved	0%	81%
Times Broken	0	3

Akira broke his opponents 9 times with a 56% conversion rate. Akira was rock solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Kusuhara broke his opponents 17 times with a 59% conversion rate. Kusuhara conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 81% of the break points that he conceded.

Santillan
	R1 Imamura	R2 Bigun	Total
Score	6-0 6-2	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	14	16	30
pts	54-28	62-37	116-65
Total points	82	99	181
Winners	22	26	48
%Winners	41%	42%	41%
SERVE
Aces	2	11	13
Double Faults	2	1	3
1st in	28/41	31/40	59/81
% 1st in	68%	78%	73%
1st pts	22/28	26/31	48/59
% 1st pts	79%	84%	81%
2nd pts	8/13	7/9	15/22
% 2nd pts	62%	78%	68%
Breaks
Won	5	4	9
Converted	5/7	4/9	9/16
Converted %	71%	44%	56%
Conceded	0	0	0
Saved	0/0	0/0	0
Saved %	–	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0	0

Kusuhara
	Q1 Ando	Q3 Matsuda	R1 Isomura	R2 Shimizu	Total
Score	6-0 6-1	6-72 6-1 6-2	7-5 6-3	6-3 6-3
Tot Set	2	3	2	2	9
Tot Games	13	28	21	18	80
pts	50-18	92-73	73-62	61-47	276-200
Total points	68	165	135	108	476
Winners	16	40	35	22	113
%Winners	32%	43%	48%	36%	41%
SERVE
Aces	4	5	11	3	23
Double Faults	1	2	2	1	6
1st in	20/36	56/88	48/77	33/55	157/256
% 1st in	56%	64%	62%	60%	61%
1st pts	16/20	40/56	35/48	22/33	113/157
% 1st pts	80%	71%	73%	67%	72%
2nd pts	12/16	22/32	15/29	14/22	63/99
% 2nd pts	75%	69%	52%	64%	64%
Breaks
Won	5	5	3	4	17
Converted	5/6	5/8	3/7	4/8	17/29
Converted %	83%	63%	43%	50%	59%
Conceded	0	5	6	5	16
Saved	0/0	4/5	5/6	4/5	13
Saved %	–	80%	83%	80%	122%
Times Broken	0	1	1	1	3

Tennis Scores in Yokohama Challenger

• Neil Oberleitner/Michael VrbenskyOberleitner/Michael Vrbensky – Yusuke Kusuhara/Shunsuke NakagawaKusuhara/Shunsuke Nakagawa (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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