Sho Shimabukuro and Jose Statham will play each other in the 1st round of the Puerto Vallarta Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on CANCHA VINOS AMERICA. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sho Shimabukuro who should win in 2 sets.
Sho Shimabukuro -> 1.168
Jose Statham -> 4.6
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Prediction and head to head Sho Shimabukuro vs. Jose Statham
There is no head to head record between Sho Shimabukuro and Jose Statham since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
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. 234 (career-high), Shimabukuro will start his run in the Puerto Vallarta Challenger after he played his last match in the Waco Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 to Gojo in the 2nd round on the 2nd of March.
The Japanese has a composed 8-4 win-loss record in 2023, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger where he beat Arthur Cazaux in the final 6-2 7-5.
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 176-96 record. He has a positive 145-72 record on hard.
Previously in the Puerto Vallarta Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Jose Statham
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-16 | 4-8 | 2-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-31 | 20-23 | 4-7 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-27 | 37-26 | 5-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-6 | 7-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 487, Jose reached the 1st
round after beating Edan Leshem 6-72 7-610 6-3 and Nick Chappell 6-4 6-2.In the qualifications, Statham had a good straight sets win against Chappell (6-4 6-2). During the match Statham scored 70 points vs Chappell’s 51. Jose was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Statham bagged 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Jose Statham lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Statham put 67% of his first serves in, winning 69% (31/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. Statham broke Chappell 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Jose started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Jose has an overall 6-3 win-loss record in 2023, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Puerto Vallarta Challenger
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Alex BoltBolt (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Benoit PairePaire – Nicolas MejiaMejia (6-73 6-1 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel RinconRincon – Alan Fernando Rubio FierrosFernando Rubio Fierros (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (2-6 7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Guido AndreozziAndreozzi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gastao EliasElias – Facundo MenaMena (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benoit PairePaire – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Christian LangmoLangmo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Jose StathamStatham (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini – Elmar EjupovicEjupovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Gabriel DialloDiallo (0-0) – H2H and prediction