In the 1/16 final of the challenger in Columbus, Japanese Yasutaka Uchiyama will play against Nikola Kuhn from Germany.
Nikola Kuhn
The 21-year-old German representative spent the beginning of January in Australia. At the challenger in Traralgon, Kuhn reached the quarterfinals, where he lost to Croatian Nino Serdarusic – 3:6; 6:7 (8:10). And then Nikola could not cope with Emilio Gomez from Ecuador in his first match of qualifying for the main draw of the Australian Open - 4:6; 4:6.
Yasutaka Uchiyama
The 29-year-old representative of Japan, in turn, also spent the first days of January in Australia, but Uchiyama immediately lost all his matches. At first, there was a defeat in the 1/16 finals at the challenger in Bendigo by Hugo Carbelli from Argentina – 4:6; 4:6. And in the first match of qualifying for the main draw of the Australian Open, Uchiyama failed to cope with Juan Pablo Varyals from Peru – 5:7; 6:7 (6:8).
Forecast
Yasutaka Uchiyama is not in the best shape right now, but Nikola Kuhn likes to play on the ground more, which can roughly equalize the chances of tennis players in this match. Most likely, a hard fight will be waiting for us here, and therefore we suggest that you put more than 21.5 games on the total.
