Aely Arai and Honoka Kobayashi have met 1 time since 2025; Honoka Kobayashi leads 1–0. Their most recent meeting: Honoka Kobayashi won at W15 Sapporo (2025).
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Arai
🏃 Pusher
Kobayashi
🧱 The Wall
Matchup analysis
The 🧱 The Wall archetype wins about 73% vs 🏃 Pusher across 1,049 matches in our dataset — a stylistic lean toward Honoka Kobayashi.
The Wall players often use elite returner and low unforced errors to pressure the pusher's extreme retrieval.
1 career meeting, newest first
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Arai | Kobayashi |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | - | 0–1 |
| Avg odds | - | 5.57 |
| ROI % | - | -100.0% |
| Units P/L | - | -1.00u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Last five matches per player
Boyoung Jeong
W35 Miyazaki · Round of 32
Apr 20
Aoi Ito
W35 Osaka · Round of 32
Apr 6
Laquisa Khan
W35 Timaru · Round of 32
Mar 9
Solymar Colling
W35 Timaru · Quarterfinals
Mar 9
Kisa Yoshioka
W35 Timaru · Semifinals
Mar 9
Aishi Das
W35 Timaru · Round of 16
Mar 9
Elena Micic
W35 Launceston · Round of 16
Mar 2
Hikaru Sato
W35 Launceston · Round of 32
Mar 2
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 27–27 matches
| Metric | Arai | Kobayashi |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | - | 48% |
| Sets won | - | 47% |
| Games won | - | 45% |
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Arai | Kobayashi |
|---|---|---|
| ITF W15 | 0 | 1 |
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Arai | Kobayashi |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 0 | 1 |
