Jose Statham and Masamichi Imamura will face off in the qualifications of the Noumea Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 2:30 pm on COURT HERTZ. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jose Statham who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jose Statham is the pick to win this match.
Jose Statham -> 1.43
Masamichi Imamura -> 2.69
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Prediction and head to head Jose Statham vs. Masamichi Imamura
There is no head to head record between Jose Statham and Masamichi Imamura since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Jose Statham
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-16 | 4-8 | 2-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-31 | 20-23 | 4-7 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-27 | 37-26 | 5-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-6 | 7-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 453, Jose got to the qualifications after beating Toshihide Matsui 6-2 7-63.
In the qualifications, Jose had a good straight sets win against Matsui (6-2 7-63). During the match, Statham scored 71 points vs Matsui’s 59. Statham was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Statham recorded 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Jose Statham was quite effective on serve to win 81% (26/32) of his 1st serve and 52% (16/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Kiwi broke Matsui 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Statham has good match record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (265-194). 20-23 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Statham has an overall 168-141 match record in the last years on hard.
Statham has a compiled 26-31 win-loss record in 2023, 20-23 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Noumea Challenger
Masamichi Imamura
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 56-28 | 48-24 | 2-1 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 4-5 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-26 | 36-23 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-15 | 24-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 894, Masamichi reached the qualifications after beating Ajeet Rai 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Rai (6-1 6-4). During the match Imamura scored 57 points vs Rai’s 35. The Japanese was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Imamura scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Masamichi Imamura was extremely effective on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Rai 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Masamichi’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Yanagawa.
Imamura has an aggregate 4-5 win-loss record in 2023, 4-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Statham | Imamura |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 17 |
| Pts | 71-59 | 57-35 |
| Total Points | 130 | 92 |
| Winners | 26 | 23 |
| %Winners | 37% | 40% |
Both Statham and Imamura played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Statham and Imamura have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Statham played 4 games more than Imamura. The Kiwi scored 26 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese blasted 23 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Statham | Imamura |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 1 |
| 1st in | 32/63 | 30/44 |
| %1st in | 51% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 23/30 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 16/31 | 9/14 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 64% |
Statham struck 4 aces . Imamura managed to score 1 ace . Statham won 81% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Imamura won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Statham | Imamura |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 5/8 |
| % Converted | 57% | 63% |
| Conceded | 4 | 2 |
| Saved | 2 | 1 |
| % Saved | 50% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Jose broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Kiwi dropped his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Masamichi broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Masamichi conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Statham | |||
| Q1 Matsui |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 71-59 | 71-59 | |
| Total points | 130 | 130 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 32/63 | 32/63 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 26/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/31 | 16/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Imamura | |||
| Q1 Rai |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 57-35 | 57-35 | |
| Total points | 92 | 92 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 30/44 | 30/44 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 23/30 | 23/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 9/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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