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Masamichi Imamura vs Rio NoguchiPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats

🇯🇵Masamichi Imamura

#408 · 27 yrs · R

4Lost 4 straight

0–0

First meeting

🇯🇵Rio Noguchi

#221 · 27 yrs · R

Upcoming match

Tournament: Hangzhou Open - Hangzhou
Level: ATP 250
Round: 1st Round Qualifying
Surface: Hard
Date & time: September 22 · 3:00 AM ET

Book odds

Masamichi Imamura2.602.81

Rio Noguchi1.481.41

Set spread

Imamura -1.54.56

Noguchi +1.51.16

Game spread

Imamura +3.51.85

Noguchi -3.51.85

ImamuraHard-court specialist (98%)NoguchiHard-court specialist (94%)

Record at prices like this

Masamichi Imamura2.81implies 27%won 19%−8 pts

At 2.81 or longer, Masamichi Imamura has won 5 of 27 (19%). The price implied 27%, so Masamichi Imamura has fallen 8 points short of it.

Rio Noguchi1.41implies 74%won 81%+7 pts

At 1.41 or shorter, Rio Noguchi has won 26 of 32 (81%). The price implied 74%, so Rio Noguchi has beaten it by 7 points.

Book prices with the bookmaker margin removed, across every priced match we hold for each player. Green beats the price by 3 points or more, red falls that far short, grey is within 3 points. Samples under ten are not shown.

Masamichi Imamura and Rio Noguchi meet next at the Hangzhou Open - Hangzhou on September 22 on hard.

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Spread & Straight-Sets Form

Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months

Indicator	Imamura	Noguchi
Indicator	Masamichi Imamura		Rio Noguchi
Wins in straight sets	79%	42/53	58%	21/36
Wins a set when losing	29%	10/34	32%	10/31
Goes to a deciding set	24%	21/87	37%	25/67
Covers −1.5 sets as favorite	58%	28/48	36%	12/33
Covers +1.5 sets as underdog	50%	16/32	63%	19/30
Tiebreak sets won	69%	9/13	38%	8/21
Wins after taking set 1	92%	47/51	79%	26/33
Wins 2-0 after taking set 1	82%	42/51	64%	21/33

Colored rows are higher-is-better: green above 50%, red below. Favorite/underdog set by book odds; cover rows count only matches with odds on record.

Style Matchup

Playing styles and historical archetype record

Imamura

🪃 Counterpuncher

Elite BP conversionStrong return gameDefensive consistencyRally tolerance

Noguchi

🪃 Counterpuncher

Elite BP conversionStrong return gameDefensive consistencyRally tolerance

Matchup analysis

Both Masamichi Imamura and Rio Noguchi are 🪃 Counterpuncher types. Mirror matchups usually come down to execution, fitness, and surface fit, across 5,516 matches in our dataset the historical split is about even.

Previous meetings

First career meeting

Imamura and Noguchi have never faced each other on tour.

Prop Research

Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days

Outcome	Imamura	Noguchi
Outcome	Masamichi Imamura		Rio Noguchi
1 or more	58%	7/12	50%	7/14
3 or more	42%	5/12	7%	1/14
5 or more	17%	2/12	0%	0/14
10 or more	0%	0/12	0%	0/14
15 or more	0%	0/12	0%	0/14
20 or more	0%	0/12	0%	0/14

Player ROI

Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days

Metric	Imamura	Noguchi
W-L	8–9	8–8
Avg odds	1.93	1.84
ROI %	-19.6%	-23.2%
Units P/L	-3.33u	-3.71u

Travel

Last 30 days

Metric	Imamura	Noguchi
Countries	2	2
Events	2	3
Matches	2	6
Distance	1,651 mi · 2,657 km	8,121 mi · 13,070 km
Route	CHN → VIE	USA → CHN

Host country from the tournament each match was played in, over the last 30 days. Route is the order of countries visited; consecutive stops in the same country are shown once. Distance is the great-circle total between host cities, shown only when every stop in the window is geocoded. A rough fatigue signal, not a headline stat.

Common opponents

Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months

Noguchi has a higher win rate against shared opponents (70% vs Imamura's 40%).

Opponent	Imamura	Noguchi
Kaichi Uchida	L 63 57 36	W 36 62 63
Omar Jasika	W 76 16 63	L 26 57
Yu Hsiou Hsu	L 16 16	W 75 62
Sergey Fomin	L 26 16	L 76 46 67
Braden Shick	L 57 67	W 57 63 62
Jake Delaney	L 16 46	W 62 64
Tai Sach	W 36 64 61	L 62 16 26
Yusuke Takahashi	W 57 60 76	W 75 64
Fajing Sun	L 63 36 46	W 76 46 76
Sanhui Shin	W 64 61	W 61 64

Recent Form

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Imamura

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Aug 21

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Noguchi

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