Yuta Shimizu and Kai Wehnelt will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Playford Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yuta Shimizu who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yuta Shimizu is the pick to win this match.
Yuta Shimizu -> 1.33
Kai Wehnelt -> 3.125
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Prediction and head to head Yuta Shimizu vs. Kai Wehnelt
There is no head to head record between Yuta Shimizu and Kai Wehnelt since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Yuta Shimizu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-28 | 30-24 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 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. 266, Yuta will start his run in the Playford Challenger after he played his last match in Tokyo where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Draper in the qualifications on the 14th of October.
The Japanese has an aggregate 29-18 win-loss record in 2023, 29-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Shimizu’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Burnie,the Puerto Vallarta Challenger and the Chicago Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Shimizu has an overall 211-109 record. He has a positive 162-84 record on hard.
Previously in the Playford Challenger
Yuta has never competed in this tournament before.
Kai Wehnelt
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-22 | 4-6 | 12-11 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-2 |
| 2023 | 36-33 | 16-8 | 20-21 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-31 | 4-6 | 19-20 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 29-26 | 16-9 | 12-14 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-5 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
Ranked no. 549, Wehnelt reached the 1st round after defeating Hayden Jones 6-3 6-2 and Scott Jones 6-3 6-76 7-66.
In the qualifications, Wehnelt defeated Jones (6-3 6-76 7-66). During the match Wehnelt scored 127 points vs Jones’s 119. Kai was extremely aggressive to blast 50 winners.
About the serving games, Wehnelt struck 11 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Kai Wehnelt lost the serve 4 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Wehnelt put 59% of his first serves in, winning 75% (50/67) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (21/47) on the 2nd serve. Wehnelt broke Jones 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The German 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.
Kai’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Monastir.
The German has an overall 34-27 win-loss record in 2023, 14-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Benjamin LockLock – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Jayden CourtCourt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Blake EllisEllis – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
