Yuta Shimizu and Ernesto Escobedo will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Bloomfield Hills Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ernesto Escobedo who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ernesto Escobedo is the pick to win this match.
Ernesto Escobedo -> 1.85
Yuta Shimizu -> 1.88
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Prediction and head to head Yuta Shimizu vs. Ernesto Escobedo
There is no head to head record between Yuta Shimizu and Ernesto Escobedo since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Yuta Shimizu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-13 | 12-10 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-24 | 35-23 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-23 | 36-21 | 7-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-12 | 12-8 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-1 | 6-1 | 0-0 | 5-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 252, Yuta will start his run in the Bloomfield Hills Challenger after he played his last match in the Palmas Del Mar Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Zhukayev in the 1st round on the 12th of June.
Yuta has an aggregate 23-13 win-loss record in 2023, 23-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Japanese’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Burnie and the Puerto Vallarta Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Yuta has an overall 205-104 record. He has a positive 156-79 record on hard.
Previously in the Bloomfield Hills Challenger
Shimizu has never competed in this tournament before.
Ernesto Escobedo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-15 | 13-9 | 1-6 | 5-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-17 | 19-12 | 4-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-31 | 16-16 | 4-5 | 5-6 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-25 | 17-12 | 6-8 | 2-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-8 | 6-4 | 0-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 399, Escobedo got to the 1st round after defeating Alexander Cozbinov 7-62 4-6 6-1 and Yunseong Chung 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Chung (6-4 6-3). During the match Escobedo scored 72 points vs Chung’s 61. Ernesto was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.
About the serving games, Escobedo blasted 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Ernesto Escobedo lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Escobedo put 78% of his first serves in, winning 63% (38/60) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Chung 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Ernesto’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Xalapa.
Escobedo has a composed 13-7 win-loss record in 2023, 11-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Omar JasikaJasika – Dane SweenySweeny (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mukund SasikumarSasikumar – Ethan QuinnQuinn (7-5 4-6 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Christian HarrisonHarrison (6-2 6-77 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Li TuTu (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (7-62 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis KudlaKudla – Skander MansouriMansouri (6-3 5-7 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (4-6 6-1 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardMpetshi Perricard – Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy (3-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (7-63 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Adam WaltonWalton (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emilio GomezGomez – Michael ZhengZheng (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tristan SchoolkateTristan – Evan ZhuEvan (6-7(0) 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Aidan MchughMchugh (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Denis KudlaKudla – Kei NishikoriNishikori (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Emilio GomezGomez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
