Sho Shimabukuro and Sebastian Fanselow will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Rome Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on COURT 2. 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 Sho Shimabukuro who should win in 3 sets.
Sho Shimabukuro -> 1.7
Sebastian Fanselow -> 2.06
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Prediction and head to head Sho Shimabukuro vs. Sebastian Fanselow
This will be the 2nd time that Sho Shimabukuro and Sebastian Fanselow face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Fanselow (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Fanselow won 6-4 7-5 in the semifinal in Indonesia F3 (Jakarta) back in 2017.
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. 251, Shimabukuro will start his run in the Rome Challenger after he won the title in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger after beating 6-2 7-5 Cazaux in the final.
Sho has a compiled 6-2 win-loss record in 2023, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger where he defeated Arthur Cazaux in the final 6-2 7-5.
The Japanese won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Shimabukuro has an overall 174-94 record. He has a positive 13-10 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Rome Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.
Sebastian Fanselow
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18-18 | 11-10 | 3-5 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2024 | 29-34 | 7-9 | 14-18 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-31 | 24-9 | 20-15 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-31 | 5-11 | 17-13 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-28 | 17-13 | 13-11 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 369, Sebastian got to the 1st round after defeating Ronald Hohmann 6-4 4-6 6-2 and Pedro Rodenas 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Sebastian had a good straight sets win against Rodenas (6-3 6-2). During the match Fanselow scored 60 points vs Rodenas’s 44. The German was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Fanselow recorded 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Sebastian Fanselow was extremely efficient on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Fanselow broke Rodenas 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Fanselow started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Fanselow’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Manacor.
Fanselow has an overall 12-5 win-loss record in 2023, 6-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Rome Challenger
Fanselow has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Rome Challenger
- Mats MoraingMoraing – Christian HarrisonHarrison (1-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elmar EjupovicEjupovic – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-4 3-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (6-3 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Henri SquireSquire – Daniel RinconRincon (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aleksandar VukicAleksandar – Ulises BlanchUlises (6-3 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Alex MichelsenAlex – Dominik KoepferDominik (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Elmar EjupovicEjupovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian FanselowFanselow – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Aziz DougazDougaz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nathan PonwithPonwith – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DecampsDecamps – Daniel CukiermanCukierman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Patrick KypsonKypson – Keegan SmithSmith (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alastair GrayGray – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (0-0) – H2H and prediction