Yuta Shimizu and Tatsuma Ito will face off in the 1st round of the Kobe Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:30 am on CENTRAL COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and 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 -> 1.32
Tatsuma Ito -> 3.16
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Prediction and head to head Yuta Shimizu vs. Tatsuma Ito
This will be the 3rd time that Yuta Shimizu and Tatsuma Ito fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Ito (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Ito won 7-6(6) 6-1 in the 2nd round in the Kobe Challenger back in 2018.
Yuta Shimizu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-8 | 4-5 | 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. 249, Yuta will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Matsuyama Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Hsiou in the 2nd round on the 9th of November.
The Japanese has a compiled 32-21 win-loss record in 2023, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
The Japanese’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Burnie,the Puerto Vallarta Challenger and the Chicago Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Yuta has an overall 214-112 record. He has a positive 14-8 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018. See his history.
Tatsuma Ito
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-18 | 14-14 | 10-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-8 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-23 | 6-12 | 1-3 | 2-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-6 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 648, the Japanese will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Matsuyama Challenger where he lost 4-6 6-4 6-2 to Li in the qualifications on the 6th of November.
Ito has a composed 22-16 win-loss record in 2023, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
Ito’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Canberra and M15 Karuizawa.
In terms of his career, Tatsuma has an overall 549-416 record. He has a positive 49-42 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2018. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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LL Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger
- Yan BaiBai – Kalin IvanovskiIvanovski (6-1 4-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- August HolmgrenHolmgren – Moez EcharguiEchargui (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Andrew FentyFenty (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jason JungJung – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Menelaos EfstathiouEfstathiou (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Benjamin HassanHassan – James McCabeMcCabe (0-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Giovanni FonioFonio (4-6 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-1 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Omar JasikaJasika (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Dane SweenySweeny (6-3 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Tatsuma ItoIto – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yan BaiBai – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Renta TokudaTokuda – Yunseong ChungChung (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin HassanHassan – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Taisei IchikawaIchikawa – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
