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Castelnuovo vs Kusuhara 2:0: result and our tips

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Luca CastelnuovoATP #446Elo 1521hard 1532
2:0finalrebuilt6:2 6:4
Yusuke KusuharaATP #856Elo 1299hard 1308

Our tips

Tips and chances as published: . A published tip never changes.

Our tip
Total Sets: Under 2.5Won67%

Where the number comes from: chance from the market; the pick and the reasoning come from our data

Kusuhara: 9 matches in a row without a deciding set

Other tips

  • Match Winner: CastelnuovoWon75%

    Where the number comes from: chance from the market (bookmakers 75%); the pick and the reasoning come from our data

    Kusuhara lost 7 of the last 10 matches

Match chances

Winner chance from the market (no margin). The other markets come from the history of matches with a similar balance of strength. Chances and profiles as they stood before the match.

Winner

Luca Castelnuovo77%
Yusuke Kusuhara23%

Elo: L. Castelnuovo 78% · Y. Kusuhara 22%

from the market (no margin)

Set score

2:0 L. Castelnuovo55%
2:1 L. Castelnuovo22%
2:1 Y. Kusuhara10%
2:0 Y. Kusuhara13%

First set

Luca Castelnuovo71%
Yusuke Kusuhara29%
Full distance (3rd set)
yes32%
no68%

Total games

Expected total: 23.0

Distribution of total games
LineOverUnderTour over
18.575%25%71%
19.566%34%62%
20.557%43%54%
21.550%50%49%
22.544%57%42%
23.537%63%37%
24.534%66%35%

Sample: 3,556 matches

Games handicap

L. Castelnuovo −4.547%

Tie-break in the match

Tie-break: yes37%

tour average 32%

Bookmakers offer no tie-break bet on this match.

How the forecast did

Tip worked out after the fact from pre-match data — the board was not published yet at the time.

  • Favouritefavourite won
  • Most likely set scorehit 2:0
  • Total games Under 21.5in · 18 games
  • Games handicapcovered

Match stats

Luca CastelnuovoYusuke Kusuhara
12Aces5
0Double faults4
76%First serves in56%
87%First-serve points won72%
50%Second-serve points won39%
3/9Break points converted0/0
9/9Service games held6/9
78%Service points won58%
42%Return points won22%
65Total points won48

Serve profile (12 months)

Matches with stats from the last 12 months, pulled towards the tour average on a small sample.

L. CastelnuovoTourY. Kusuhara
Service points won65%62%60%
Return points won35%38%36%
Service games held82%76%72%
Breaks of serve18%24%24%
Aces per service game0.730.36
Double faults per game0.260.27
Sets with a tie-break17%13%
Tie-breaks won6/131/4
Wins in straight sets64%60%
Matches in the sample3313

Form

The last 10 matches in all tournaments, newest first.

Luca Castelnuovo

  • 20/10/26LKhumoyun Sultanov#416Challenger Guangzhou Nansha · R326:7 6:7
  • 19/10/26WMitsuki Wei Kang Leong#408Challenger Guangzhou Nansha · Q26:3 6:4
  • 18/10/26WEgor Pleshivtsev#783Challenger Guangzhou Nansha · Q17:6 6:4
  • 05/10/26LAkira Santillan#294Challenger Wuning 3 · R323:6 6:3 6:7
  • 22/09/26LPavel Kotov#169ATP Chengdu · Q17:6 5:7 5:7
  • 16/09/26LElias Ymer#227Challenger Guangzhou (Huangpu) · R166:7 4:6
  • 15/09/26WOmar Jasika#386Challenger Guangzhou (Huangpu) · R326:7 6:2 1:0
  • 12/09/26LIlya Ivashka#220Challenger Shanghai · SF3:6 4:6
  • 11/09/26WJi Sung Nam#821Challenger Shanghai · QF6:4 6:4
  • 10/09/26WTung-Lin Wu#375Challenger Shanghai · R167:5 6:4

Yusuke Kusuhara

  • 26/04/26LMatthew Dellavedova#237Challenger Jiujiang · Q10:6 3:6
  • 12/04/26LLeo Vithoontien#743Challenger Wuning 2 · Q13:6 5:7
  • 30/03/26LKoki Matsuda#463Challenger Miyazaki · Q24:6 2:6
  • 29/03/26WTsung-Hao Huang#919Challenger Miyazaki · Q15:4
  • 22/03/26LTsung-Hao Huang#919Challenger Yokkaichi · Q12:6 2:6
  • 02/03/26LMarek Gengel#423Challenger Fujairah · Q12:6 6:7
  • 04/01/26LEthan CookChallenger Noumea · Q11:6 5:7
  • 21/11/25LAkira Santillan#294Challenger Yokohama · QF3:6 2:6
  • 19/11/25WYuta Shimizu#404Challenger Yokohama · R166:3 6:3
  • 18/11/25WKokoro Isomura#652Challenger Yokohama · R327:5 6:3

Elo over the last year

Luca CastelnuovoYusuke Kusuhara

Record by surface (12 months)

Wins–losses over the last 12 months.

L. CastelnuovoY. Kusuhara
Hard court12–1446%5–838%
Clay1–325%0–10%
Grass1–233%0–0

Head to head

They have not met yet.