Bernard Tomic and Yuta Shimizu will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Little Rock Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 6:00 pm on STADIUM. 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yuta Shimizu is the pick to win this match.
Yuta Shimizu -> 1.61
Bernard Tomic -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Bernard Tomic vs. Yuta Shimizu
There is no head to head record between Bernard Tomic and Yuta Shimizu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Bernard Tomic
25 - 13win/loss
203
17
LWLWLLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 49-28 | 33-18 | 12-5 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-27 | 35-19 | 4-4 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-12 | 24-7 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 9-12 | 4-4 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 247, Bernard got to the 2nd round after beating Thai Kwiatkowski 3-6 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round against Kwiatkowski, The Australian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-2 6-3). During the match, Tomic scored 85 points vs Kwiatkowski’s 77. Tomic was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Tomic made 8 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Bernard Tomic lost the serve 5 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Tomic put 47% of his first serves in, winning 76% (26/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 36% (14/39) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Kwiatkowski 7 times after converting 64% of his break points (7/11).
Tomic has good record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (232-184). 17-9 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Tomic has a composed 153-94 match record in the last years on hard.
Bernard’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Chennai and M25 Xalapa.
The Australian has a compiled 25-12 win-loss record in 2024, 17-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
Yuta Shimizu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-28 | 28-24 | 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. 265, Shimizu got to the 2nd round after defeating Keegan Smith 7-5 6-3.
In the 1st round, Shimizu had a good straight sets win against Smith (7-5 6-3). During the match Shimizu scored 74 points vs Smith’s 65. Yuta was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Shimizu scored 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Yuta Shimizu lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Shimizu put 58% of his first serves in, winning 76% (35/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (15/33) on the 2nd serve. Shimizu broke Smith 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
The Japanese’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the New Delhi Challenger and the Hamburg Challenger.
Shimizu has a compiled 12-11 win-loss record in 2024, 8-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tomic | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 21 |
| Pts | 85-77 | 74-65 |
| Total Points | 162 | 139 |
| Winners | 26 | 35 |
| %Winners | 31% | 47% |
Both Tomic and Shimizu played 1 match. At the moment, Bernard Tomic lost 1 set while Yuta Shimizu hasn’t lost a set so far. Tomic has played 1 set more than Shimizu (3 vs 2). Therefore, Tomic played 5 games more than Shimizu. Tomic scored 26 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Shimizu blasted 35 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tomic | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 3 |
| 1st in | 34/73 | 46/79 |
| %1st in | 47% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 26/34 | 35/46 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 14/39 | 15/33 |
| %2nd pts | 36% | 45% |
Tomic managed to score 8 aces . Shimizu struck 3 aces . Tomic won 76% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 36% of the points. On the other side, Shimizu won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tomic | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 3 |
| Converted | 7/11 | 3/8 |
| % Converted | 64% | 38% |
| Conceded | 11 | 7 |
| Saved | 6 | 6 |
| % Saved | 55% | 86% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 1 |
Bernard broke his opponent 7 times with a 64% conversion rate. Bernard dropped his serve 5 times and he saved 55% of the break points that he conceded. Yuta broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Shimizu conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.
| Tomic | |||
| R1 Kwiatkowski |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 85-77 | 85-77 | |
| Total points | 162 | 162 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 34/73 | 34/73 | |
| % 1st in | 47% | 47% | |
| 1st pts | 26/34 | 26/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/39 | 14/39 | |
| % 2nd pts | 36% | 36% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/11 | 7/11 | |
| Converted % | 64% | 64% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 6/11 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 55% | 55% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
| Shimizu | |||
| R1 Smith |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 74-65 | 74-65 | |
| Total points | 139 | 139 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 46/79 | 46/79 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 35/46 | 35/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/33 | 15/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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