Marin Cilic and Sho Shimabukuro will play each other in the 1st round of the National Bank Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT 9. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marin Cilic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marin Cilic is the pick to win this match.
Marin Cilic -> 1.46
Sho Shimabukuro -> 2.7
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Prediction and head to head Marin Cilic vs. Sho Shimabukuro
There is no head to head record between Marin Cilic and Sho Shimabukuro since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Marin Cilic
13 - 13win/loss
80
3
LLLWLLLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 14-16 | 6-8 | 3-4 | 3-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 29-20 | 3-6 | 11-9 | 6-3 | 9-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 9-11 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-21 | 16-10 | 9-5 | 4-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 86, the Croatian will start his run in Toronto after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 6-1 6-2 6-4 to Medvedev in the 1st round on the 29th of June.
Marin has an overall 13-13 win-loss record in 2026, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Cilic has an overall 739-415 record. He has a positive 264-160 record on hard.
Previously in Toronto
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2008 and 2018. See his history.
Sho Shimabukuro
27 - 20win/loss
109
87
LLLWWLLLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 30-28 | 19-20 | 0-2 | 4-2 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 34-23 | 29-19 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-28 | 21-17 | 1-3 | 3-5 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-26 | 19-17 | 7-1 | 9-4 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-25 | 38-20 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 94, the Japanese got to the 1st round after defeating Nicolai Budkov Kjaer 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Sho had a good straight sets win against Budkov Kjaer (6-3 6-4). During the match Shimabukuro scored 65 points vs Budkov Kjaer’s 49. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 19 winners.
About the serving games, Shimabukuro fired 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Sho Shimabukuro lost the serve 4 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Shimabukuro put 52% of his first serves in, winning 59% (19/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (15/29) on the 2nd serve. Shimabukuro broke Budkov Kjaer 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).
ATP Montreal - Sho Shimabukuro's projected path
Shimabukuro has a compiled 27-20 win-loss record in 2026, 18-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
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