Sho Shimabukuro and Max Houkes will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Tunis Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:30 am on COURT 5. Here the head to head stats and relative 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
Max Houkes -> 2.14
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Prediction and head to head Sho Shimabukuro vs. Max Houkes
There is no head to head record between Sho Shimabukuro and Max Houkes since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Sho Shimabukuro
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-16 | 3-7 | 1-3 | 1-4 | 3-2 | 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 |
Ranked no. 234, Sho reached the qualifications after defeating Alex Bolt 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Shimabukuro had a good straight sets win against Bolt (6-3 6-1). During the match, Shimabukuro scored 53 points vs Bolt’s 27. Sho was quite aggressive to blast 15 winners.
Talking about the service games, Shimabukuro was unable to score even 1 ace throughout the encounter and he committed only 1 double fault. Sho Shimabukuro lost the serve 3 times. Furthermore, Shimabukuro put 71% of his first serves in, winning 52% (15/29) of the points behind his 1st serve and 58% (7/12) on the 2nd serve. Shimabukuro broke Bolt 7 times after converting 88% of his break points (7/8).
Shimabukuro has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 64% of his matches (182-102). 1-0 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Shimabukuro has an overall10-7 record in the last 8 years on clay.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger where he defeated Arthur Cazaux in the final 6-2 7-5.
The Japanese has a compiled 14-10 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tunis Challenger
Sho has never competed in this tournament before.
Max Houkes
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-10 | 0-0 | 12-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-33 | 1-1 | 39-30 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 70-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-16 | 2-2 | 30-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 28-11 | 7-3 | 21-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 278 (career-high), Max got to the qualifications after beating Rayen Hermassi 6-2 6-0.
In the qualifications, Houkes had a good straight sets win against Hermassi (6-2 6-0). During the match Houkes scored 53 points vs Hermassi’s 24. Houkes was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.
About the serving games, Houkes managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Max Houkes was extremely effective on serve to win 77% (17/22) of his 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Max broke Hermassi 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
The Dutch’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Palmanova.
Max has an aggregate 14-12 win-loss record in 2023, 13-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Shimabukuro | Houkes |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 14 |
| Pts | 53-27 | 53-24 |
| Total Points | 80 | 77 |
| Winners | 15 | 17 |
| %Winners | 28% | 32% |
Both Shimabukuro and Houkes played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Shimabukuro and Houkes have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Shimabukuro played 2 games more than Houkes. Shimabukuro scored 15 winners (28% of the total points). On the other side, The Dutch scored 17 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Shimabukuro | Houkes |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 2 |
| 1st in | 29/41 | 22/39 |
| %1st in | 71% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 15/29 | 17/22 |
| %1st pts | 52% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 7/12 | 12/17 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 71% |
Shimabukuro didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Houkes scored 2 aces . Shimabukuro won 52% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Houkes won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Shimabukuro | Houkes |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 5 |
| Converted | 7/8 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 88% | 56% |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Sho broke his opponent 7 times with a 88% conversion rate. Sho lost his serve 3 times and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Max broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Max was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Shimabukuro | |||
| Q1 Bolt |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 53-27 | 53-27 | |
| Total points | 80 | 80 | |
| Winners | 15 | 15 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 29/41 | 29/41 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 15/29 | 15/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 52% | 52% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/12 | 7/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/8 | 7/8 | |
| Converted % | 88% | 88% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 0/3 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Houkes | |||
| Q1 Hermassi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 53-24 | 53-24 | |
| Total points | 77 | 77 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 22/39 | 22/39 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 17/22 | 17/22 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/17 | 12/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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