Challenger Wuning 3Challenger 50Semifinalhardbest of three sets

Saitoh vs Friend 0:2: result and our tips

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Keisuke SaitohATP #550Elo 1538hard 1536
0:2final2:6 1:6
Jay FriendATP #260Elo 1818hard 1806

Our tips

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

Our tip
Total Games: Under 23.5Won68%

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

Friend: 5 matches in a row under 23.5 games

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

Keisuke Saitoh18%
Jay Friend82%

Elo: K. Saitoh 18% · J. Friend 83%

from the market (no margin)

Set score

2:0 K. Saitoh9%
2:1 K. Saitoh8%
2:1 J. Friend21%
2:0 J. Friend61%

First set

Keisuke Saitoh24%
Jay Friend76%
Full distance (3rd set)
yes29%
no71%

Total games

The bookmakers' lineOver 20.5 · 51%market (no margin): 50%

The 20.5 line offered by bookmakers before the match: our chance on that line, and next to it the market's (from the odds, without the margin).

Expected total: 22.2

Distribution of total games
LineOverUnderTour over
17.578%22%79%
18.569%31%71%
19.560%40%62%
20.551%49%54%
21.544%56%49%
22.538%62%42%
23.532%68%37%

Sample: 2,528 matches

Games handicap

Jay Friend −4.554%

Tie-break in the match

Tie-break: yes31%

tour average 32%

How the forecast did

  • Favouritefavourite won
  • Most likely set scorehit 0:2
  • Total games Over 20.5out · 15 games
  • Games handicapcovered
  • Tie-breakno tie-break

Match stats

Keisuke SaitohJay Friend
0Aces6
3Double faults2
60%First serves in62%
62%First-serve points won81%
26%Second-serve points won50%
0/1Break points converted5/10
3/8Service games held7/7
48%Service points won69%
31%Return points won52%
36Total points won54

Serve profile (12 months)

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

K. SaitohTourJ. Friend
Service points won65%62%64%
Return points won39%38%39%
Service games held82%76%81%
Breaks of serve28%24%24%
Aces per service game0.260.43
Double faults per game0.170.28
Sets with a tie-break11%17%
Tie-breaks won1/212/18
Wins in straight sets67%62%
Matches in the sample844

Form

The last 10 matches in all tournaments, newest first.

Keisuke Saitoh

  • 09/10/26WAkira Santillan#324Challenger Wuning 3 · QF6:7 6:1 6:4
  • 07/10/26WHiroki Moriya#505Challenger Wuning 3 · R166:2 6:3
  • 06/10/26WDominik Palan#631Challenger Wuning 3 · R327:6 6:4
  • 05/10/26WYusuke Takahashi#727Challenger Wuning 3 · Q24:6 6:3 6:2
  • 04/10/26WZicong WangChallenger Wuning 3 · Q16:1 6:0
  • 29/09/26LMattia Bellucci#86Challenger Jingshan · Q22:6 2:6
  • 28/09/26WKoki Matsuda#481Challenger Jingshan · Q16:3 6:2
  • 02/11/25LKoki Matsuda#481Challenger Matsuyama · Q15:7 7:5 4:6
  • 14/07/25LAndres Martin#338Challenger Granby · Q11:6 5:7
  • 07/07/25LQuinn Vandecasteele#473Challenger Newport · Q24:6 6:7

Jay Friend

Elo over the last year

Keisuke SaitohJay Friend

Record by surface (12 months)

Wins–losses over the last 12 months.

K. SaitohJ. Friend
Hard court6–275%29–1566%

Head to head

They have not met yet.

Road through the tournament

Keisuke Saitoh

Jay Friend