Yuta Shimizu and Naoki Nakagawa will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT B. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yuta Shimizu who should win in 3 sets.
Yuta Shimizu -> 1.43
Naoki Nakagawa -> 2.66
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Prediction and head to head Yuta Shimizu vs. Naoki Nakagawa
This will be the 3rd time that Yuta Shimizu and Naoki Nakagawa face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Shimizu and Nakagawa (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Shimizu won 5-7 6-3 7-6(11) in the 1st round in Japan F6 (Matsuyama) back in 2018.
Yuta Shimizu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21-24 | 17-17 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-29 | 35-25 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-24 | 35-23 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-23 | 36-21 | 7-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-12 | 12-8 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 454, the Japanese reached the qualifications after beating Chanchin Sookton-Eng 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications, Shimizu had a good straight sets win against Sookton-Eng (6-1 6-2). During the match, Shimizu scored 58 points vs Sookton-Eng’s 34. Yuta was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Shimizu fired 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Yuta Shimizu was extremely efficient on serve to win 84% (21/25) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Yuta broke Sookton-Eng 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Shimizu has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 67% of his matches (174-85). 28-13 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Shimizu has an aggregate126-59 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
The Japanese’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Antalya,M15 Kuala Lumpur,M15 Kuching and M15 Jakarta.
Shimizu has an overall 35-14 win-loss record in 2022, 28-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger
Naoki Nakagawa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-22 | 15-21 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-16 | 13-12 | 1-1 | 11-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-23 | 42-19 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-27 | 16-16 | 10-9 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-15 | 32-13 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 486, the Japanese got to the qualifications after defeating Shinji Hazawa 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Nakagawa had a good straight sets win against Hazawa (6-4 6-4). During the match Nakagawa scored 68 points vs Hazawa’s 62. Naoki was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Nakagawa made 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Naoki Nakagawa lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Nakagawa put 61% of his first serves in, winning 70% (32/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (13/29) on the 2nd serve. Naoki broke Hazawa 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Naoki has an aggregate 19-14 win-loss record in 2022, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Shimizu | Nakagawa |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 20 |
| Pts | 58-34 | 68-62 |
| Total Points | 92 | 130 |
| Winners | 21 | 32 |
| %Winners | 36% | 47% |
Both Shimizu and Nakagawa played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Shimizu and Nakagawa have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Shimizu played 5 games less than Nakagawa. Yuta scored 21 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese made 32 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Shimizu | Nakagawa |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 8 |
| 1st in | 25/47 | 46/75 |
| %1st in | 53% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 21/25 | 32/46 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 13/29 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 45% |
Shimizu fired 2 aces . Nakagawa bagged 8 aces . Shimizu won 84% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Nakagawa won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Shimizu | Nakagawa |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/6 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 83% | 67% |
| Conceded | 2 | 8 |
| Saved | 1 | 6 |
| % Saved | 50% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Yuta broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. Yuta conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Shimizu | |||
| Q1 Sookton-Eng | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 58-34 | 58-34 | |
| Total points | 92 | 92 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 25/47 | 25/47 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 21/25 | 21/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 12/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Nakagawa | |||
| Q1 Hazawa | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 68-62 | 68-62 | |
| Total points | 130 | 130 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 46/75 | 46/75 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 32/46 | 32/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/29 | 13/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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