Claire Liu and Ena Shibahara will square off in the qualifications of the Sydney Tennis Classic for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT 4. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Claire Liu who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Claire Liu is the pick to win this match.
Claire Liu -> 1.05
Ena Shibahara -> 9.9
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Prediction and head to head Claire Liu vs. Ena Shibahara
This will be the 2nd time that Claire Liu and Ena Shibahara play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Liu (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Liu won 6-2 6-1 in the 1st round in the Indian Wells back in 2019.
Claire Liu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-12 | 8-7 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-29 | 19-19 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-22 | 15-14 | 12-4 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-17 | 17-11 | 17-4 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-10 | 8-8 | 4-1 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 94,she will start her run in Sydney after she played her last match in Sydney where she beat 6-1 6-1 to Bai in the qualifications on the 9th of January.
Liu has an overall 3-1 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Claire has an overall 162-104 record. She has a positive 85-66 record on hard.
Previously in Sydney
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Ena Shibahara
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-10 | 25-7 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-15 | 12-12 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-15 | 11-8 | 1-3 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-7 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 588, Ena reached the qualifications after beating Lisa Mays 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications, Shibahara had a good straight sets win against Mays (6-1 6-2). During the match Shibahara scored 54 points vs Mays’s 23. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Shibahara scored 6 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ena Shibahara was quite effective on serve to win 95% (20/21) of her 1st serve and 75% (12/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Shibahara broke Mays 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).
Shibahara has an aggregate 1-0 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Liu | Shibahara |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 15 |
| Pts | 55-27 | 54-23 |
| Total Points | 82 | 77 |
| Winners | 20 | 20 |
| %Winners | 36% | 37% |
Both Liu and Shibahara played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Liu and Shibahara have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Liu played 1 game less than Shibahara. The American scored 20 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Ena blasted 20 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Liu | Shibahara |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 6 |
| 1st in | 24/42 | 21/37 |
| %1st in | 57% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 20/24 | 20/21 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 95% |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 12/16 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 75% |
Liu recorded 4 aces . Shibahara fired 6 aces . Liu won 83% points behind her first serve. She was rock solid on her second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Shibahara won 95% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 75% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Liu | Shibahara |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 4/5 |
| % Converted | 71% | 80% |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Claire broke her opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Liu was rock solid on her serve as she has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. Shibahara broke her opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Shibahara was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Liu | ||
| Total | ||
|---|---|---|
| Score | ||
| Tot Set | 0 | |
| Tot Games | 0 | |
| pts | 0-0 | |
| Total points | 0 | |
| Winners | 0 | |
| %Winners | 0% | |
| SERVE | ||
| Aces | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | |
| 1st in | 0/0 | |
| % 1st in | 0% | |
| 1st pts | 0/0 | |
| % 1st pts | % | |
| 2nd pts | 0/0 | |
| % 2nd pts | 0% | |
| Breaks | ||
| Won | 0 | |
| Converted | 0/0 | |
| Converted % | 0% | |
| Conceded | 0 | |
| Saved | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | |
| Shibahara | |||
| Q1 Mays |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 54-23 | 54-23 | |
| Total points | 77 | 77 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 21/37 | 21/37 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 20/21 | 20/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 95% | 95% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/16 | 12/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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