John Millman and Shintaro Imai will face off in the 2nd round of the Kobe Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is John Millman who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, John Millman is the pick to win this match.
John Millman -> 1.26
Shintaro Imai -> 3.7
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Prediction and head to head John Millman vs. Shintaro Imai
There is no head to head record between John Millman and Shintaro Imai since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
John Millman
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 5-5 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-27 | 13-15 | 3-6 | 2-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-27 | 6-9 | 7-7 | 8-8 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-13 | 10-6 | 1-3 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 156, Millman got to the 2nd round after defeating Filip Cristian Jianu 6-3 3-6 6-4.
In the 1st round, Millman defeated Cristian Jianu (6-3 3-6 6-4). During the match, Millman scored 92 points vs Cristian Jianu’s 88. Millman was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Regarding the service games, Millman scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he was very steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, John Millman was very effective on serve to win 73% (35/48) of his 1st serve and 59% (23/39) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Australian broke Cristian Jianu 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Millman has positive record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (285-208). 1-1 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Millman has an aggregate 35-29 record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
The Australian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Delray Beach.
The Australian has a compiled 21-26 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Shintaro Imai
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-14 | 19-11 | 0-0 | 5-1 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 5-4 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-14 | 29-13 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-19 | 13-18 | 0-0 | 8-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 510, the Japanese reached the 2nd round after beating Hiroki Moriya 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Shintaro had a good straight sets win against Moriya (6-4 6-3). During the match Imai scored 61 points vs Moriya’s 45. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Imai blasted 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Shintaro Imai was pretty efficient on serve to win 88% (29/33) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Imai broke Moriya 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Shintaro’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Chiang Rai,M15 Chiang Rai and M15 Jakarta.
Shintaro has a composed 29-12 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Millman | Imai |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 28 | 19 |
| Pts | 92-88 | 61-45 |
| Total Points | 180 | 106 |
| Winners | 35 | 29 |
| %Winners | 38% | 48% |
Both Millman and Imai played 1 match. At the moment, John Millman dropped 1 set while Shintaro Imai hasn’t conceded a set so far. Millman has played 1 set more than Imai (3 vs 2). Therefore, Millman played 9 games more than Imai. John scored 35 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese fired 29 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Millman | Imai |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 8 |
| 1st in | 48/87 | 33/49 |
| %1st in | 55% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 35/48 | 29/33 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 88% |
| 2nd pts | 23/39 | 10/16 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 63% |
Millman fired 1 ace . Imai also managed to score 8 aces . Millman won 73% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Imai won 88% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Millman | Imai |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 33% | 60% |
| Conceded | 7 | 2 |
| Saved | 5 | 2 |
| % Saved | 71% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
The Australian broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Shintaro was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Millman | |||
| R1 Cristian |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 3-6 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 92-88 | 92-88 | |
| Total points | 180 | 180 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 48/87 | 48/87 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 35/48 | 35/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/39 | 23/39 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Imai | |||
| R1 Moriya |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 61-45 | 61-45 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/49 | 33/49 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 29/33 | 29/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWLWLWWWW Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Li TuTu (6-73 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Shintaro ImaiImai – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (5-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Tatsuma ItoIto (6-3 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-4 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Yunseong ChungChung (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (3-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Yuichi SugitaSugita (4-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Shinji HazawaHazawa – James DuckworthDuckworth (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Colin SinclairSinclair (6-77 7-610 7-63) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- John MillmanMillman – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (6-3 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (6-3 6-77 6-2) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Dane SweenySweeny (6-3 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Jason JungJung (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shintaro ImaiImai – John MillmanMillman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Marc PolmansPolmans (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-2) – H2H and prediction
