Yuta Shimizu and Keegan Smith will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Little Rock Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 13. 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 -> 1.27
Keegan Smith -> 3.52
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Prediction and head to head Yuta Shimizu vs. Keegan Smith
There is no head to head record between Yuta Shimizu and Keegan Smith 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 | 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 |
| 2020 | 11-1 | 6-1 | 0-0 | 5-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 265, the Japanese will start his run in the Little Rock Challenger after he played his last match in the Taipei Challenger where he lost 7-6(5) 6-0 to Walton in the 1st round on the 14th of May.
The Japanese has an aggregate 11-11 win-loss record in 2024, 7-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Yuta’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the New Delhi Challenger and the Hamburg Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 229-126 record. He has a positive 175-97 record on hard.
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
Keegan Smith
14 - 11win/loss
549
339
LWWWLWWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-26 | 36-21 | 0-1 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-26 | 31-20 | 0-0 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-24 | 26-14 | 3-4 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-5 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-4 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 595, Smith reached the 1st round after beating Andres Urrea 7-5 6-0 and Axel Nefve 7-5 6-78 7-5.
In the qualifications, Keegan defeated Nefve (7-5 6-78 7-5). During the match Smith scored 129 points vs Nefve’s 125. Keegan was very aggressive to blast 58 winners.
About the serving games, Smith recorded 5 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Keegan Smith lost the serve 3 times and he saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Smith put 58% of his first serves in, winning 73% (58/80) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (25/58) on the 2nd serve. Smith broke Nefve 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Smith 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.
The American has an aggregate 14-10 win-loss record in 2024, 14-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Brandon HoltHolt – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-0 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andres AndradeAndrade – Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong (6-75 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Ethan QuinnQuinn (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Stefan KozlovKozlov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Keegan SmithSmith (0-0) – H2H and prediction
