Yuta Shimizu and Nishesh Basavareddy will fight against each other in the semifinal of the Little Rock Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 1:30 pm on STADIUM. 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 Nishesh Basavareddy who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nishesh Basavareddy is the pick to win this match.
Nishesh Basavareddy -> 1.86
Yuta Shimizu -> 1.86

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Prediction and head to head Yuta Shimizu vs. Nishesh Basavareddy

There is no head to head record between Yuta Shimizu and Nishesh Basavareddy since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Yuta Shimizu

Yuta Shimizu

15 - 11win/loss

Hard
11-8
I Hard
4-3
Rank
215
High
203
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 32-27 28-24 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
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Ranked no. 265, Shimizu got to the semifinal after beating Keegan Smith 7-5 6-3, Bernard Tomic 6-1 ret. and Rudy Quan 6-4 6-3

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In the quarter, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Quan (6-4 6-3). During the match, Shimizu scored 74 points vs Quan’s 61. Yuta was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Regarding the service games, Shimizu scored 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Yuta Shimizu lost the serve 4 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Shimizu put 67% of his first serves in, winning 57% (21/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Quan 7 times after converting 44% of his break points (7/16).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Japanese hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 54% of the points he played.

Shimizu has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 65% of his matches (232-126). 10-8 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Shimizu has an aggregate178-97 match record in the last 9 years on hard.

Shimizu’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the New Delhi Challenger and the Hamburg Challenger.

Yuta has a compiled 14-11 win-loss record in 2024, 10-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Little Rock Challenger

Little Rock Challenger
Shimizu's Record

Nishesh Basavareddy

Nishesh Basavareddy

8 - 3win/loss

Hard
8-3
I Hard
0-0
Rank
172
High
170
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 39-15 29-11 0-0 10-4 0-0 0-0
2023 12-6 10-4 0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0
2022 2-5 1-2 1-2 0-1 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 411, Nishesh got to the semifinal after defeating Ethan Quinn 7-5 6-4, Christian Langmo 7-5 7-5 and Trevor Svajda 6-2 6-2.

In the quarter, Basavareddy had a good straight sets win against Svajda (6-2 6-2). During the match Basavareddy scored 56 points vs Svajda’s 36. Basavareddy was very aggressive to blast 16 winners.

Talking about serving, Basavareddy blasted 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Nishesh Basavareddy lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Basavareddy put 50% of his first serves in, winning 70% (16/23) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the 2nd serve. The American was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Svajda 6 times.

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

Nishesh’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Calabasas.

The American has an overall 8-2 win-loss record in 2024, 8-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Little Rock Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Little Rock Challenger
Basavareddy's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Y.Shimizu
N.Basavareddy
3h:37
3h:37
Time on court​
4h:22
4h:22
1h:47
1h:47
Last match​
!
0h:58
0h:58
3
3
Match played
3
3
47
47
Games Played​
62
62
6
6
Set played​​
6
6
177
177
Total points​
209
209
59
59
Avg point​
69.7
69.7
67
67
Winners
65
65
22.3
22.3
Avg Winners​
21.7
21.7
38%
38%
Ratio winners
31%
31%
-- Serve --
9
9
Aces
13
13
3
3
Avg Aces
4.3
4.3
5
5
Double Faults
13
13
1.7
1.7
Avg Double Faults
4.3
4.3
67/96
67/96
1st won total​
65/89
65/89
70%
70%
1st won %
!
73%
73%
28/57
28/57
2nd won total​
59/92
59/92
49%
49%
2nd won %
!
64%
64%
-- Break Points --
13/28
13/28
BP won
11/21
11/21
4.3/9.3
4.3/9.3
Avg BP won
3.7/7
3.7/7
46%
46%
Won
!
52%
52%
14
14
Conceded
12
12
4.7
4.7
Avg Conceded
4
4
5
5
Broken
3
3
1.7
1.7
Avg Broken
1
1
9
9
Saved
9
9
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Shimizu Basavareddy
Match played 3 3
Tot Set 6 6
Tot Games 47 62
Pts 177-137 209-166
Total Points 314 375
Winners 67 65
%Winners 38% 31%

Both Shimizu and Basavareddy played 3 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Shimizu and Basavareddy have played the same amount of sets 6. However, Shimizu played 15 games less than Basavareddy. The Japanese scored 67 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Nishesh bagged 65 winners (31%).

Serve Performance

Serve Shimizu Basavareddy
Aces 9 13
Avg per match 3 4.3
1st in 96/153 89/181
%1st in 63% 49%
1st pts 67/96 65/89
%1st pts 70% 73%
2nd pts 28/57 59/92
%2nd pts 49% 64%

Shimizu fired 9 aces (3 per match). Basavareddy recorded 13 aces (4.3 per match). Shimizu won 70% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Basavareddy won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Shimizu Basavareddy
Won 13 11
Converted 13/28 11/21
% Converted 46% 52%
Conceded 14 12
Saved 9 9
% Saved 64% 75%
Times Broken 5 3

The Japanese broke his opponents 13 times with a 46% conversion rate. Shimizu lost his serve 5 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded. Nishesh broke his opponents 11 times with a 52% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Shimizu
R1
Smith		 R2
Tomic		 1/4
Quan		 Total
Score 7-5 6-3 6-1 ret. 6-4 6-3
Tot Set 2 1 2 5
Tot Games 21 7 19 47
pts 74-65 29-11 74-61 177-137
Total points 139 40 135 314
Winners 35 11 21 67
%Winners 47% 38% 28% 38%
SERVE
Aces 3 2 4 9
Double Faults 3 1 1 5
1st in 46/79 13/19 37/55 96/153
% 1st in 58% 68% 67% 63%
1st pts 35/46 11/13 21/37 67/96
% 1st pts 76% 85% 57% 70%
2nd pts 15/33 4/6 9/18 28/57
% 2nd pts 45% 67% 50% 49%
Breaks
Won 3 3 7 13
Converted 3/8 3/4 7/16 13/28
Converted % 38% 75% 44% 46%
Conceded 7 0 7 14
Saved 6/7 0/0 3/7 9
Saved % 86% – 43% 43%
Times Broken 1 0 4 5
Basavareddy
R1
Quinn		 R2
Langmo		 1/4
Svajda		 Total
Score 7-5 6-4 7-5 7-5 6-2 6-2
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 22 24 16 62
pts 73-60 80-70 56-36 209-166
Total points 133 150 92 375
Winners 21 28 16 65
%Winners 29% 35% 29% 31%
SERVE
Aces 5 6 2 13
Double Faults 6 5 2 13
1st in 26/61 40/74 23/46 89/181
% 1st in 43% 54% 50% 49%
1st pts 21/26 28/40 16/23 65/89
% 1st pts 81% 70% 70% 73%
2nd pts 25/35 22/34 12/23 59/92
% 2nd pts 71% 65% 52% 64%
Breaks
Won 2 3 6 11
Converted 2/6 3/9 6/6 11/21
Converted % 33% 33% 100% 52%
Conceded 3 5 4 12
Saved 3/3 4/5 2/4 9
Saved % 100% 80% 50% 77%
Times Broken 0 1 2 3

Tennis Scores in Little Rock Challenger

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