Hiroki Moriya and Yuta Shimizu will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Rakuten Japan Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 8:30 pm on COLOSSEUM. 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 Yuta Shimizu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yuta Shimizu is the pick to win this match.
Yuta Shimizu -> 1.68
Hiroki Moriya -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Hiroki Moriya vs. Yuta Shimizu
There is no head to head record between Hiroki Moriya and Yuta Shimizu since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Hiroki Moriya
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-18 | 19-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-28 | 31-27 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-30 | 18-19 | 0-0 | 7-9 | 1-1 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 22-28 | 13-17 | 0-0 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2020 | 7-15 | 5-5 | 1-2 | 0-7 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 253, the Japanese reached the 1st round after beating Yuki Mochizuki 6-3 6-4.
Moriya has a unfavourable record in the last 10 years having won only 48% of his matches (269-294). 14-13 on hard in 2022. . Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Moriya has a composed 196-189 match record in the last years on hard.
The Japanese’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Nottingham.
Hiroki has an aggregate 23-23 win-loss record in 2022, 14-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Yuta Shimizu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-14 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 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 |
| 2020 | 11-1 | 6-1 | 0-0 | 5-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 451, the Japanese reached the 1st round after defeating Nicolas Jarry 6-4 6-4 and Max Purcell 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Shimizu had a good straight sets win against Purcell (6-3 6-4). During the match Shimizu scored 68 points vs Purcell’s 55. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Shimizu scored 5 aces and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yuta Shimizu was very effective on serve to win 79% (31/39) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Yuta broke Purcell twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Yuta started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to conquer 54% of the points he played.
Yuta’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya,M15 Kuala Lumpur,M15 Kuching and M15 Jakarta.
Yuta has an overall 40-16 win-loss record in 2022, 33-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Moriya | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 39 |
| Pts | 68-56 | 128-110 |
| Total Points | 124 | 238 |
| Winners | 36 | 52 |
| %Winners | 53% | 41% |
Moriya played 1 match while Shimizu competed in 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Moriya has played 2 set(s) less than Shimizu (2 vs 4). Therefore, Moriya played 20 games less than Shimizu. The Japanese scored 36 winners (53% of the total points). On the other side, Yuta bagged 52 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Moriya | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3.5 |
| 1st in | 47/73 | 73/116 |
| %1st in | 64% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 36/47 | 52/73 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 14/26 | 28/43 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 65% |
Moriya blasted 1 ace . Shimizu also scored 7 aces (3.5 per match). Moriya won 77% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Shimizu won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Moriya | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 6 |
| Converted | 2/3 | 6/11 |
| % Converted | 67% | 55% |
| Conceded | 5 | 6 |
| Saved | 5 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Hiroki broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Moriya was rock solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 5 break points. Shimizu broke his opponents 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Moriya | ||||
| Q1 Mochizuki |
Q3 Shimabukuro |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | 5-7 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 30 | 49 | |
| pts | 68-56 | – | 68-56 | |
| Total points | 124 | 0 | 124 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | ||
| %Winners | 53% | 0% | 53% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1st in | 47/73 | / | 47/73 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 0% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 36/47 | / | 36/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 0% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/26 | / | 14/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 0% | 54% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 2 | ||
| Converted | 2/3 | / | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 0% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | ||
| Saved | 5/5 | 0/ | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | ||
| Shimizu | ||||
| Q1 Jarry |
Q3 Purcell |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 19 | 39 | |
| pts | 60-55 | 68-55 | 128-110 | |
| Total points | 115 | 123 | 238 | |
| Winners | 21 | 31 | 52 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 46% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 34/60 | 39/56 | 73/116 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 70% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 21/34 | 31/39 | 52/73 | |
| % 1st pts | 62% | 79% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/26 | 11/17 | 28/43 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 2/3 | 6/11 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 67% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 1/1 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 100% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
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