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Natsumi Kawaguchi vs Ya Yi YangPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats

🇯🇵Natsumi Kawaguchi

#401 · 23 yrs · Left-Handed

0–1

1 meeting · sets 0–2

🇹🇼Ya Yi Yang

#513 · 22 yrs · Left-Handed

Natsumi Kawaguchi and Ya Yi Yang have met 1 time since 2026; Ya Yi Yang leads 1–0. Across all meetings Kawaguchi has taken 0 sets to Yang's 2. Their most recent meeting: Ya Yi Yang won at W35 Taipei (2026).

Spread & Straight-Sets Form

Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months

Indicator	Kawaguchi	Yi Yang
Indicator	Natsumi Kawaguchi		Ya Yi Yang
Wins in straight sets	75%	15/20	76%	26/34
Wins a set when losing	32%	6/19	29%	9/31
Goes to a deciding set	28%	11/39	26%	17/65
Covers −1.5 sets as favorite	62%	8/13	11%	1/9
Covers +1.5 sets as underdog	55%	12/22	50%	5/10
Tiebreak sets won	56%	5/9	57%	4/7
Wins after taking set 1	81%	17/21	94%	29/31
Wins 2-0 after taking set 1	71%	15/21	84%	26/31

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. Head-to-head: 1 of 1 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Kawaguchi 0, Yi Yang 1).

Style Matchup

Playing styles and historical archetype record

Kawaguchi

💥 Big Hitter

Power groundstrokesHigh winner countAggressive shotsShort rallies

Yang

👑 The Complete Package

Elite serve & returnHigh BP conversionAll-surface dominanceClutch performer

Matchup analysis

💥 Big Hitter vs 👑 The Complete Package is historically tight (48% vs 52%, 3,896 matches). Neither style has a clear edge, so form, surface, and the head-to-head matter most.

Previous meetings

1 career meeting, newest first

Jun 25, 2026

W35 Taipei

H Hard · 2nd Round

Yang

Prop Research

Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days

Outcome	Kawaguchi	Yang
Outcome	Natsumi Kawaguchi		Ya Yi Yang
1 or more	100%	4/4	68%	13/19
3 or more	25%	1/4	53%	10/19
5 or more	0%	0/4	32%	6/19
10 or more	0%	0/4	0%	0/19
15 or more	0%	0/4	0%	0/19
20 or more	0%	0/4	0%	0/19

Player ROI

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

Metric	Kawaguchi	Yang
W-L	1–2	3–6
Avg odds	2.31	2.09
ROI %	-59.7%	-49.9%
Units P/L	-1.79u	-4.49u

Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.

Travel

Last 30 days

Metric	Kawaguchi	Yang
Countries	1	2
Events	1	2
Matches	1	5
Distance	—	—
Route	USA	ITA → USA

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

Yang has a higher win rate against shared opponents (50% vs Kawaguchi's 25%).

Opponent	Kawaguchi	Yang
Haruka Kaji	L 67 36	W 36 63 76
Mei Yamaguchi	L 63 36 46	W 63 63
Ye Xin Ma	L 06 06	L 26 06
Yi Chi Ma	L 06 06	L 26 06
Sarah Rokusek	W 62 62	L 06 64 67
Fangran Tian	L 16 06	L 26 36
Taylah Preston	L 26 46	W 26 62 64
Erika Sema	W 61 75	W 64 63

Recent Form

Last five matches per player

Kawaguchi

LLWWLLWL

Priska Madelyn Nugroho

W15 Tianjin · 1st Round

6¹7

Aug 25

Ya Yi Yang

W35 Taipei · 2nd Round

Jun 25

Yishuang Lin

Taipei 3 ITF · Round of 32

Jun 23

Yu Chen Lin

W35 Taipei · 1st Round

Jun 23

Yuno Kitahara

W35 Taipei · 1st Round

Jun 16

Valentina Ryser

W100 Takasaki · 2nd Round

May 22

Sayaka Ishii

W100 Takasaki · 1st Round

76²

May 20

Momoko Kobori

W75 Kurume · Quarterfinals

May 15

Yang

LWLWWLWW

Rinko Matsuda

W15 Tianjin · Quarterfinals

6⁹7

76²

Aug 21

Yingqun Sun

W15 Tianjin · 1st Round

76²

Aug 19

Thasaporn Naklo

W15 Tianjin · Quarterfinals

Aug 14

Dabin Kim

W15 Tianjin · 2nd Round

Aug 13

Xi Luo

W15 Tianjin · 1st Round

Aug 11

Natsuho Arakawa

W15 Brisbane · 2nd Round

Jul 30

Fang An Lin

W15 Brisbane · 1st Round

Jul 29

Nithesa Selvaraj

W15 Brisbane · 2nd Round

Jul 23

Win rate

Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 39–65 matches

Metric	Kawaguchi	Yang
Matches won	51%	52%
Sets won	52%	52%
Games won	51%	50%

Record by tier

Head-to-head record by tournament tier

Stage	Kawaguchi	Yang
ITF W35	0	1

By surface

Head-to-head record per surface

Surface	Kawaguchi	Yang
Hard	0	1

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Natsumi Kawaguchi vs Ya Yi Yang FAQ

Ya Yi Yang leads the head-to-head 1–0 over 1 meetings.

Spread & Straight-Sets Form

Style Matchup

Previous meetings

Prop Research

Player ROI

Travel

Common opponents

Recent Form

Win rate

Record by tier

By surface

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