ATP Challenger Tour · 1st Round Qualifying · Texas Spine and Joint Men's Championship
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Masur
💥 Big Hitter
Kuzuhara
🧱 The Wall
Matchup analysis
The 💥 Big Hitter archetype wins about 56% vs 🧱 The Wall across 2,689 matches in our dataset. That is a small stylistic lean for Daniel Masur here.
Big Hitter players often use power groundstrokes and high winner count to pressure the the wall's elite returner. On Hard, that can swing with conditions.
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Masur | Kuzuhara |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 5–4 | 5–3 |
| Avg odds | 1.97 | 2.42 |
| ROI % | -33.6% | -2.4% |
| Units P/L | -3.02u | -0.19u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
First career meeting
Masur and Kuzuhara have never faced each other on tour.
Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months
Kuzuhara has a higher win rate against shared opponents (100% vs Masur's 0%).
| Opponent | Masur | Kuzuhara |
|---|---|---|
| Joshua Sheehy | L 26 46 | W 75 63 |
Serve and return comparison · Last 90 days
| Stat | Masur | Kuzuhara |
|---|---|---|
| Serve | ||
| 1st Serve In % | 58.1% | 62.8% |
| 1st Serve Pts Won % | 74.4% | 63.7% |
| 2nd Serve Pts Won % | 50.8% | 54.1% |
| Aces / Match | 6.8 | 2.6 |
| Double Faults / Match | 1.7 | 3.1 |
| Break Points Saved % | 39.2% | 47.9% |
| Return | ||
| 1st Return Pts Won % | 33.3% | 33.1% |
| 2nd Return Pts Won % | 53.5% | 50.2% |
| BP Converted % | 52.5% | 46.5% |
| Rally | ||
| Winners / Match | 25 | 22.3 |
| Unforced Errors / Match | 25.5 | 37.2 |
| Net Pts Won % | 70% | 65.6% |
| Total Pts Won % | 52.7% | 49.7% |
| Surface (Hard) | ||
| Hard Win % | 55% | 50% |
Last five matches per player
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Apr 27
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May 3
Daniel Evans
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May 2
Tyler Zink
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Apr 14
Match summary
Bruno Kuzuhara meets Daniel Masur in 1st Round Qualifying at the Texas Spine and Joint Men's Championship on May 31st on outdoor hard court. Kuzuhara ranks 592nd; Masur sits at 367th. The two have not faced each other before.
Kuzuhara won three of his last five matches but stands at 4-10 over his last ten outings. Masur also won three of his last five and holds a 5-5 record in his most recent ten. Both players are coming off match losses and neither has competed in the past two weeks. Masur has been sidelined for over three months, while Kuzuhara last played 54 days ago. Both defeated Alfredo Perez at different points.
Kuzuhara builds points through retrieval and consistency; his hard court record sits at 5-15 in the recent sample. Masur relies on power and aggression from the baseline, converting at a 55% clip on hard courts. The match will test whether Masur's pace translates after an extended layoff or whether Kuzuhara's steadiness can neutralize the big hitting over the course of a qualifying best-of-three.
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