Jurij Rodionov and Yuta Shimizu will square off in the 2nd round of the Kobe Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on CENTRAL COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jurij Rodionov who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jurij Rodionov is the pick to win this match.
Jurij Rodionov -> 1.4
Yuta Shimizu -> 2.78
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Prediction and head to head Jurij Rodionov vs. Yuta Shimizu
There is no head to head record between Jurij Rodionov and Yuta Shimizu since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Jurij Rodionov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7-5 | 5-4 | 1-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 27-32 | 10-10 | 6-12 | 11-7 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-33 | 3-6 | 15-13 | 21-11 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 45-31 | 5-5 | 16-11 | 21-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-28 | 2-4 | 2-7 | 13-13 | 3-3 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 107, Jurij reached the 2nd round after beating Yasutaka Uchiyama 7-65 6-4.
In the 1st round, Jurij had a good straight sets win against Uchiyama (7-65 6-4). During the match, Rodionov and Uchiyama scored the same amount of points (77). However, the world no. 107 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Rodionov was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Rodionov bagged 6 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Jurij Rodionov lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Rodionov put 60% of his first serves in, winning 68% (32/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (13/31) on the 2nd serve. The Austrian broke Uchiyama 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Rodionov has a winning record in the last 8 years having won 58% of his matches (245-178). 20-10 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Rodionov has an aggregate88-53 record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the season was winning the title the Biel Challenger where he overcame Liam Broady in the final 6-3 ret..
Rodionov has a composed 43-30 win-loss record in 2023, 20-10 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
The Austrian has never competed in this tournament before.
Yuta Shimizu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4-5 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-29 | 35-25 | 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 |
Ranked no. 249, Yuta got to the 2nd round after defeating Tatsuma Ito 7-66 6-3.
In the 1st round, Shimizu had a good straight sets win against Ito (7-66 6-3). During the match Shimizu scored 81 points vs Ito’s 59. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Shimizu fired 8 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Yuta Shimizu was pretty efficient on serve to win 80% (32/40) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Shimizu broke Ito 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Shimizu’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Burnie,the Puerto Vallarta Challenger and the Chicago Challenger.
Shimizu has an overall 33-21 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Rodionov | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 22 |
| Pts | 77-77 | 81-59 |
| Total Points | 154 | 140 |
| Winners | 32 | 32 |
| %Winners | 42% | 40% |
Both Rodionov and Shimizu played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Rodionov and Shimizu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Rodionov played 1 game more than Shimizu. Jurij scored 32 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Yuta blasted 32 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Rodionov | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 8 |
| 1st in | 47/78 | 40/60 |
| %1st in | 60% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 32/47 | 32/40 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 13/31 | 13/20 |
| %2nd pts | 42% | 65% |
Rodionov managed to score 6 aces . Shimizu made 8 aces . Rodionov won 68% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Shimizu won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Rodionov | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/9 |
| % Converted | 75% | 33% |
| Conceded | 5 | 2 |
| Saved | 3 | 0 |
| % Saved | 60% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Jurij broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Jurij surrendered his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Shimizu broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Rodionov | |||
| R1 Uchiyama |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 77-77 | 77-77 | |
| Total points | 154 | 154 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 47/78 | 47/78 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 32/47 | 32/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/31 | 13/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Shimizu | |||
| R1 Ito |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 81-59 | 81-59 | |
| Total points | 140 | 140 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 40/60 | 40/60 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 32/40 | 32/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 13/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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