Tallon Griekspoor and Sho Shimabukuro will face off in the 2nd round of the Astana Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 12:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Tallon Griekspoor who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tallon Griekspoor is the pick to win this match.
Tallon Griekspoor -> 1.191
Sho Shimabukuro -> 4.7
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Prediction and head to head Tallon Griekspoor vs. Sho Shimabukuro
There is no head to head record between Tallon Griekspoor and Sho Shimabukuro since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Tallon Griekspoor
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-23 | 8-9 | 8-8 | 6-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-24 | 14-10 | 3-5 | 12-7 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-27 | 5-6 | 12-6 | 4-11 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 59-17 | 11-3 | 36-10 | 9-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-9 | 3-1 | 12-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 24 (career-high), Tallon will start his run in Astana after he played his last match in Davis Cup, Group D, Split where he lost 4-6 7-6(2) 6-4 to Gojo in the Rubber 2 on the 17th of September.
Tallon has a composed 30-18 win-loss record in 2023, 6-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title in Pune where he overcame Benjamin Bonzi in the final 4-6 7-5 6-3 and in Hertogenbosch where he defeated Jordan Thompson in the final 6-7(4) 7-6(3) 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Griekspoor has an overall 333-187 record. He has a positive 49-41 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Astana
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
Sho Shimabukuro
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-23 | 18-13 | 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 |
Ranked no. 148, Sho got to the 2nd round after defeating Saba Purtseladze 6-0 2-6 6-2, Taro Daniel 6-3 6-77 7-66 and Roberto Carballes Baena 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Sho had a good straight sets win against Carballes Baena (6-2 6-4). During the match Shimabukuro scored 70 points vs Carballes Baena’s 56. The Japanese was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Shimabukuro blasted 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Sho Shimabukuro lost the serve once. Furthermore, Shimabukuro put 60% of his first serves in, winning 84% (26/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (9/21) on the 2nd serve. Shimabukuro broke Carballes Baena 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
His best result of the year was winning the title the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger where he defeated Arthur Cazaux in the final 6-2 7-5 and the Tunis Challenger where he beat Geoffrey Blancaneaux in the final 6-4 6-4.
Shimabukuro has a composed 38-21 win-loss record in 2023, 5-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Astana
Sho has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (6-2 5-7 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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