Sho Shimabukuro and Jason Jung will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 2. 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sho Shimabukuro is the pick to win this match.
Sho Shimabukuro -> 1.69
Jason Jung -> 2.12
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Prediction and head to head Sho Shimabukuro vs. Jason Jung
There is no head to head record between Sho Shimabukuro and Jason Jung since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Sho Shimabukuro
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-17 | 3-7 | 1-3 | 1-4 | 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 |
| 2020 | 4-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 331, the Japanese reached the 2nd round after beating Yuki Mochizuki 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Shimabukuro had a good straight sets win against Mochizuki (6-2 6-4). During the match, Shimabukuro scored 73 points vs Mochizuki’s 60. Sho was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Shimabukuro fired 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Sho Shimabukuro conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 7 break points. Furthermore, Shimabukuro put 59% of his first serves in, winning 91% (30/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (10/23) on the 2nd serve. Sho broke Mochizuki 3 times after converting 19% of his break points (3/16).
Shimabukuro has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 65% of his matches (153-84). 33-17 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Shimabukuro has a compiled130-64 record in the last 7 years on hard.
Sho’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Monastir and M25 Harmon.
Sho has an overall 36-21 win-loss record in 2022, 33-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokohama Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Jason Jung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-25 | 40-23 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-28 | 13-14 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-25 | 5-12 | 1-4 | 2-6 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-18 | 7-8 | 2-4 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 438, Jung got to the 2nd round after defeating Zdenek Kolar 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Kolar (6-2 6-1). During the match Jung scored 54 points vs Kolar’s 26. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Jung scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Jason Jung was very efficient on serve to win 86% (24/28) of his 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Jung broke Kolar 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Jason has an overall 17-23 win-loss record in 2022, 8-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Shimabukuro | Jung |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 15 |
| Pts | 73-60 | 54-26 |
| Total Points | 133 | 80 |
| Winners | 30 | 24 |
| %Winners | 41% | 44% |
Both Shimabukuro and Jung played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Shimabukuro and Jung have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Shimabukuro played 3 games more than Jung. Sho scored 30 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Jason made 24 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Shimabukuro | Jung |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
| 1st in | 33/56 | 28/41 |
| %1st in | 59% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 30/33 | 24/28 |
| %1st pts | 91% | 86% |
| 2nd pts | 10/23 | 9/13 |
| %2nd pts | 43% | 69% |
Shimabukuro recorded 3 aces . Jung made 1 ace . Shimabukuro won 91% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Jung won 86% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Shimabukuro | Jung |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/16 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 19% | 57% |
| Conceded | 7 | 0 |
| Saved | 7 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The Japanese broke his opponent 3 times with a 19% conversion rate. Sho pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 7 break points. Jung broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Chinese was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Shimabukuro | |||
| R1 Mochizuki |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 73-60 | 73-60 | |
| Total points | 133 | 133 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 33/56 | 33/56 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 30/33 | 30/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 91% | 91% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/23 | 10/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/16 | 3/16 | |
| Converted % | 19% | 19% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 7/7 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Jung | |||
| R1 Kolar |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 54-26 | 54-26 | |
| Total points | 80 | 80 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 28/41 | 28/41 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 24/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 9/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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