Sho Shimabukuro and Beibit Zhukayev will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 10:00 am on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sho Shimabukuro who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sho Shimabukuro is the pick to win this match.
Sho Shimabukuro -> 1.65
Beibit Zhukayev -> 2.18

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Prediction and head to head Sho Shimabukuro vs. Beibit Zhukayev

There is no head to head record between Sho Shimabukuro and Beibit Zhukayev since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Sho Shimabukuro

Sho Shimabukuro

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Rank
246

High
135

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	9-16	3-7	1-3	1-4	4-2	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
2020	4-5	4-4	0-0	0-1	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 384, Shimabukuro reached the 2^nd round after beating Daniel Cukierman 6-2 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Cukierman (6-2 6-4). During the match, Shimabukuro scored 59 points vs Cukierman’s 39. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Regarding the service games, Shimabukuro fired 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Sho Shimabukuro was very efficient on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 76% (13/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Cukierman 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Shimabukuro has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 65% of his matches (145-78). 25-11 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Shimabukuro has a composed122-58 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.

The Japanese’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Monastir and M25 Harmon.

The Japanese has a compiled 28-15 win-loss record in 2022, 25-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger

The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.

Nonthaburi 2 Challenger

Shimabukuro's Record

Beibit Zhukayev

Beibit Zhukayev

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Rank
208

High
171

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	17-16	6-8	6-4	0-1	5-3	0-0
2023	37-30	19-16	1-3	11-8	2-2	4-1
2022	43-30	33-21	1-2	9-7	0-0	0-0
2021	19-21	13-10	4-9	2-2	0-0	0-0
2020	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 395, Zhukayev got to the 2^nd round after beating Naoki Nakagawa 6-1 6-4, James McCabe 6-4 6-3 and Yuta Shimizu 6-3 7-6⁸.

In the 1^st round, Beibit had a good straight sets win against Shimizu (6-3 7-6⁸). During the match Zhukayev scored 71 points vs Shimizu’s 66. The Kazakhstani was extremely aggressive to blast 43 winners.

Talking about serving, Zhukayev fired 9 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Beibit Zhukayev conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Zhukayev put 73% of his first serves in, winning 81% (43/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (9/20) on the 2nd serve. Zhukayev broke Shimizu once after converting 33% of his break points (1/3).

Zhukayev’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Sultan.

The Kazakhstani has an overall 32-20 win-loss record in 2022, 25-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Nonthaburi 2 Challenger

Zhukayev's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Shimabukuro played 1 match while Zhukayev competed in 3 matches. Zhukayev started his run from the qualifications while Shimabukuro had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Shimabukuro has played 4 set(s) less than Zhukayev (2 vs 6). Therefore, Shimabukuro played 40 games less than Zhukayev. Sho scored 21 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Beibit struck 102 winners (52%).

Serve Performance

Shimabukuro struck 5 aces . Zhukayev scored 28 aces (9.3 per match). Shimabukuro won 81% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 76% of the points. On the other side, Zhukayev won 86% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Sho broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Beibit broke his opponents 6 times with a 46% conversion rate. Beibit was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 7 break points.

Head 2 Head

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Sho
Shimabukuro

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Beibit
Zhukayev

Rank

246

High

135

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Rank

208

High

171

Win Loss

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2024 2023 2022

9 - 16

17 - 16

3-7

Hard

6-8

1-4

I Hard

0-1

1-3

Clay

6-4

4-2

Grass

5-3

Tennis Scores in Nonthaburi 2 Challenger

• Ben PataelPatael – Alastair GrayGray (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Arthur CazauxCazaux – Krittin KoaykulKoaykul (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-3 7-6⁸) – See score progression
• Valentin VacherotVacherot – Akira SantillanSantillan (6-1 2-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Dane SweenySweeny – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (3-6 6-0 6-0) – See score progression
• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Charles BroomBroom – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (7-5 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Billy HarrisHarris – Yunseong ChungChung (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – James McCabeMcCabe (3-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Benjamin LockLock (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Daniel CukiermanCukierman (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Gabriel DecampsDecamps – Sergey FominFomin (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Federico GaioGaio – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (6-7⁷ 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Yshai OlielOliel (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Omar JasikaJasika – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Thanapet ChantaChanta (7-6⁶ 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Omar JasikaJasika (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Federico GaioGaio – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Valentin VacherotVacherot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gabriel DecampsDecamps – Kasidit SamrejSamrej (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Charles BroomBroom – Ben PataelPatael (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dane SweenySweeny – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (0-0) – H2H and prediction

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