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H2H, prediction of Sho Shimabukuro vs Hiroki Moriya in Busan Challenger with odds, preview, pick | 9th May 2023

PREVIEW. Busan Challenger. Shimabukuro and Moriya will play each other in the 1st round of the Busan Challenger. See the prediction, H2H stats, odds, and preview of their next match on Tuesday the 9th of May

Mark Hall

8 May 2023

Prediction and head to head Sho Shimabukuro vs. Hiroki Moriya

Sho Shimabukuro and Hiroki Moriya will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Busan Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:30 pm on COURT 3. 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.

As per the initial odds, Sho Shimabukuro is the pick to win this match.
Sho Shimabukuro -> 1.44
Hiroki Moriya -> 2.64

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Prediction and head to head Sho Shimabukuro vs. Hiroki Moriya

This will be the 3^rd time that Sho Shimabukuro and Hiroki Moriya face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Shimabukuro and Moriya (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Moriya won 6-1 5-7 6-3 in the qualifications in the Seoul Challenger back in 2022.

Sho Shimabukuro

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Rank
246

High
135

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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

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Ranked no. 234, the Japanese will start his run in the Busan Challenger after he played his last match in the Gwangju Challenger where he lost 7-5 7-6(2) to Vukic in the 1^st round on the 2^nd of May.

The Japanese has an aggregate 12-9 win-loss record in 2023, 11-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the 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, Shimabukuro has an overall 180-101 record. He has a positive 149-77 record on hard.

Previously in the Busan Challenger

Sho has never competed in this tournament before.

Busan Challenger

Shimabukuro's Record

Hiroki Moriya

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Rank
415

High
143

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	19-17	19-15	0-0	0-0	0-2	0-0
2023	31-28	31-27	0-0	0-1	0-0	0-0
2022	27-30	18-19	0-0	7-9	1-1	1-1
2021	22-28	13-17	0-0	8-9	0-0	1-2
2020	7-15	5-5	1-2	0-7	0-0	1-1

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Ranked no. 360, Moriya got to the 1^st round after defeating Duckhee Lee 7-6⁶ 6-0 and Makoto Ochi 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Ochi (6-4 6-4). During the match Moriya scored 64 points vs Ochi’s 57. The Japanese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.

About the serving games, Moriya blasted 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Hiroki Moriya was exceptionally effective on serve to win 74% (23/31) of his 1st serve and 52% (16/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Japanese broke Ochi 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Moriya started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 56% of the points he played.

The Japanese has an overall 8-10 win-loss record in 2023, 8-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).