Sho Shimabukuro and Benjamin Lock will square off in the qualifications of the Salinas Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on CANCHA 4. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sho Shimabukuro who should win in 3 sets.
Sho Shimabukuro -> 1.53
Benjamin Lock -> 2.44
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Prediction and head to head Sho Shimabukuro vs. Benjamin Lock
This will be the 2nd time that Sho Shimabukuro and Benjamin Lock play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Lock (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Lock won 6-4 6-7(5) 6-2 in the 1st round in the Calgary Challenger back in 2020.
Sho Shimabukuro
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2021 | 31-20 | 28-18 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 423 (career-high), Shimabukuro will start his run in the Salinas Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Calabasas where he lost 6-2 7-6(5) to O’Hoisin in the 1st round on the 23rd of March.
Sho has an overall 11-5 win-loss record in 2022, 11-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Sho’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Monastir.
Talking about his overall career, Shimabukuro has an overall 88-48 record. He has a positive 74-36 record on hard.
Previously in the Salinas Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Benjamin Lock
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 53-30 | 19-12 | 33-16 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-32 | 13-16 | 25-11 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-32 | 18-17 | 21-10 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-30 | 20-18 | 1-5 | 3-6 | 4-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-13 | 8-7 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 539, will start his run in the Salinas Challenger after he played his last match in the Salinas Challenger where he beat 6-0 6-0
to Lee Chan Baratau in the qualifications on the 3rd of April.Benjamin has a compiled 15-7 win-loss record in 2022, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Benjamin’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Medellin.
Lock won his last 5 matches.
In terms of his career, The has an overall 78-78 record. He has a positive 51-46 record on hard.
Previously in the Salinas Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.
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