Nam Hoang Ly and Sho Shimabukuro will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 -> 1.65
Nam Hoang Ly -> 2.18

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Prediction and head to head Nam Hoang Ly vs. Sho Shimabukuro

There is no head to head record between Nam Hoang Ly and Sho Shimabukuro since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Nam Hoang Ly

Ranked no. 236, Hoang Ly reached the 2^nd round after beating James Kent Trotter 6-3 6-1.

In the 1^st round, The Vietnamese had a good straight sets win against Kent Trotter (6-3 6-1). During the match, Hoang Ly scored 69 points vs Kent Trotter’s 51. Hoang Ly was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Hoang Ly bagged 2 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Nam Hoang Ly conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 7 break points. Furthermore, Hoang Ly put 69% of his first serves in, winning 76% (29/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. The Vietnamese broke Kent Trotter 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Hoang Ly has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 68% of his matches (232-109). 50-12 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Hoang Ly has an overall200-85 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.

Nam’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Balma,M15 Chiang Rai,M15 Tay Ninh,M15 Kuala Lumpur,M15 Kuching,the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger and M25 Tay Ninh.

The Vietnamese has a compiled 59-16 win-loss record in 2022, 50-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger

Sho Shimabukuro

Ranked no. 284 (career-high), the Japanese got to the 2^nd round after beating Shuichi Sekiguchi 6-4 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Sho had a good straight sets win against Sekiguchi (6-4 6-3). During the match Shimabukuro scored 65 points vs Sekiguchi’s 50. Sho was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Shimabukuro recorded 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Sho Shimabukuro was extremely efficient on serve to win 80% (24/30) of his 1st serve and 68% (17/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Sekiguchi twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).

Shimabukuro’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Monastir and M25 Harmon.

Sho has an aggregate 41-24 win-loss record in 2022, 37-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Hoang Ly	Shimabukuro
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	19
Pts	69-51	65-50
Total Points	120	115
Winners	29	24
%Winners	42%	37%

Both Hoang Ly and Shimabukuro played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Hoang Ly and Shimabukuro have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Hoang Ly played 3 games less than Shimabukuro. The Vietnamese scored 29 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Shimabukuro made 24 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Hoang Ly	Shimabukuro
Aces	2	6
Avg per match	2	6
1st in	38/55	30/55
%1st in	69%	55%
1st pts	29/38	24/30
%1st pts	76%	80%
2nd pts	8/17	17/25
%2nd pts	47%	68%

Hoang Ly recorded 2 aces . Shimabukuro managed to score 6 aces . Hoang Ly won 76% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Shimabukuro won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Hoang Ly	Shimabukuro
Won	4	2
Converted	4/11	2/8
% Converted	36%	25%
Conceded	7	0
Saved	7	0
% Saved	100%	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Hoang Ly broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Hoang Ly quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 7 break points. Sho broke his opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. The Japanese was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Hoang Ly
	R1 Kent Trotter	Total
Score	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	69-51	69-51
Total points	120	120
Winners	29	29
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	38/55	38/55
% 1st in	69%	69%
1st pts	29/38	29/38
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	8/17	8/17
% 2nd pts	47%	47%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/11	4/11
Converted %	36%	36%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	7/7	7
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Shimabukuro
	R1 Sekiguchi	Total
Score	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	65-50	65-50
Total points	115	115
Winners	24	24
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	30/55	30/55
% 1st in	55%	55%
1st pts	24/30	24/30
% 1st pts	80%	80%
2nd pts	17/25	17/25
% 2nd pts	68%	68%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/8	2/8
Converted %	25%	25%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Yokkaichi Challenger

• Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (6-4 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Shinji HazawaHazawa – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
• Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Duckhee LeeLee (1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Colin SinclairSinclair – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Shintaro ImaiImai – Keisuke SaitohSaitoh (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Makoto OchiOchi (7-6² 6-4) – See score progression
• Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-2 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (6-3 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Yuichi SugitaSugita – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-4 1-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Mukund SasikumarSasikumar – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Yunseong ChungChung – Dane SweenySweeny (7-5 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Yuichi SugitaSugita – Colin SinclairSinclair (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Shinji HazawaHazawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yunseong ChungChung – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Shintaro ImaiImai (0-0) – H2H and prediction