Grigor Dimitrov and Sho Shimabukuro will square off in the 1st round of Wimbledon for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on Court 18. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Grigor Dimitrov who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Grigor Dimitrov is the pick to win this match.
Grigor Dimitrov -> 1.048
Sho Shimabukuro -> 10.25

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Prediction and head to head Grigor Dimitrov vs. Sho Shimabukuro

There is no head to head record between Grigor Dimitrov and Sho Shimabukuro since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Grigor Dimitrov

Grigor Dimitrov

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Rank
44
High
3
WLWWWLLLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 18-11 9-6 5-4 1-0 3-1 0-0
2024 46-18 21-7 8-4 13-5 4-2 0-0
2023 43-21 16-10 10-5 10-4 7-2 0-0
2022 26-22 10-11 10-5 5-4 1-2 0-0
2021 24-18 18-10 3-5 2-2 1-1 0-0

Ranked no. 24, Dimitrov will start his run in Wimbledon after he played his last match in London where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Alcaraz in the quarter on the 23rd of June.

Dimitrov has a compiled 22-12 win-loss record in 2023, 4-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).

The Bulgarian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Geneva.

Talking about his overall career, Dimitrov has an overall 541-333 record. He has a positive 51-33 record on grass.

Previously in Wimbledon

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2014. See his history.

Wimbledon
Dimitrov's Record

Sho Shimabukuro

Sho Shimabukuro

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Rank
146
High
135
LWWLWWWWWW
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. 162 (career-high), Sho reached the 1st round after beating Facundo Diaz Acosta 6-75 6-3 6-4, Toby Samuel 5-7 6-1 6-4 and Denis Kudla 6-4 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, Shimabukuro had a good straight sets win against Kudla (6-4 6-4 6-4). During the match Shimabukuro scored 91 points vs Kudla’s 80. Sho was very aggressive to blast 37 winners.

About the serving games, Shimabukuro bagged 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Sho Shimabukuro was extremely efficient on serve to win 82% (37/45) of his 1st serve and 66% (23/35) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sho broke Kudla 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger where he overcame Arthur Cazaux in the final 6-2 7-5 and the Tunis Challenger where he defeated Geoffrey Blancaneaux in the final 6-4 6-4.

Shimabukuro has a composed 28-14 win-loss record in 2023, 8-3 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Wimbledon

Sho has never competed in this tournament before.

Wimbledon
Shimabukuro's Record

Tennis Scores – Wimbledon

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