Sho Shimabukuro and Yuki Mochizuki will play each other in the 1st round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on COURT 4. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sho Shimabukuro who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sho Shimabukuro is the pick to win this match.
Sho Shimabukuro -> 1.27
Yuki Mochizuki -> 3.48
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Prediction and head to head Sho Shimabukuro vs. Yuki Mochizuki
This will be the 5th time that Sho Shimabukuro and Yuki Mochizuki face off. The head to head is 2-2 for Shimabukuro and Mochizuki (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Shimabukuro won 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in the Yokkaichi Challenger back in 2019.
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. 331, Sho will start his run in the Yokohama Challenger after he played his last match in the Seoul Challenger where he lost 6-1 5-7 6-3 to Moriya in the qualifications on the 10th of October.
The Japanese has a composed 35-21 win-loss record in 2022, 32-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Japanese’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Monastir and M25 Harmon.
Talking about his overall career, Shimabukuro has an overall 152-84 record. He has a positive 129-64 record on hard.
Previously in the Yokohama Challenger
Sho has never competed in this tournament before.
Yuki Mochizuki
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-23 | 26-16 | 6-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-24 | 19-20 | 4-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-26 | 21-23 | 9-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-20 | 18-12 | 14-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-8 | 15-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 567, the Japanese got to the 1st round after beating Takuya Kumasaka 6-3 6-0 and Asahi Harazaki 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Harazaki (6-3 6-4). During the match Mochizuki scored 68 points vs Harazaki’s 52. Mochizuki was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Mochizuki made 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yuki Mochizuki lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Mochizuki put 77% of his first serves in, winning 72% (33/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (6/14) on the 2nd serve. Yuki broke Harazaki 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Yuki started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 61% of the points he played.
Yuki’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya.
Yuki has a composed 30-16 win-loss record in 2022, 16-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Tatsuma ItoIto (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Yunseong ChungChung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Taisei IchikawaIchikawa – John MillmanMillman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Jonathan MridhaMridha (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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