Benjamin Bonzi and Yuta Shimizu will clash against each other in the quarter of the Winnipeg Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:00 am on STADIUM. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Benjamin Bonzi who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Benjamin Bonzi is the pick to win this match.
Benjamin Bonzi -> 1.63
Yuta Shimizu -> 2.16
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Prediction and head to head Benjamin Bonzi vs. Yuta Shimizu
This will be the 3rd time that Benjamin Bonzi and Yuta Shimizu square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Bonzi and Shimizu (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Shimizu won 7-5 6-4 in the 2nd round in the New Delhi Challenger back in February 2024.
Benjamin Bonzi
19 - 22win/loss
76
42
WWWWWWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 50-32 | 13-13 | 7-10 | 24-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-26 | 10-8 | 2-4 | 17-11 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-27 | 7-10 | 9-5 | 11-8 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 57-27 | 23-5 | 7-7 | 20-13 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 30-12 | 21-3 | 5-4 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 150, Benjamin got to the quarter after beating Ethan Quinn 6-4 6-4 and Philip Sekulic 6-3 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Benjamin had a good straight sets win against Sekulic (6-3 6-3). During the match, Bonzi scored 58 points vs Sekulic’s 42. The French player was very aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Talking about the service games, Bonzi struck 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Benjamin Bonzi was extremely efficient on serve to win 73% (16/22) of his 1st serve and 64% (18/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Bonzi broke Sekulic 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Benjamin hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 57% of the points he played.
Bonzi has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 60% of his matches (337-223). 5-6 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Bonzi has a compiled102-52 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
Benjamin’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Split Challenger and the Ilkley Challenger.
Benjamin has an aggregate 18-22 win-loss record in 2024, 5-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Winnipeg Challenger
Yuta Shimizu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-28 | 31-24 | 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. 233, the Japanese reached the quarter after beating Seong Chan Hong 6-2 7-5, Hady Habib 6-3 6-4 and Benjamin Bonzi .
In the 2nd round, Yuta had a good straight sets win against Habib (6-3 6-4). During the match Shimizu scored 60 points vs Habib’s 45. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Shimizu struck 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Yuta Shimizu was pretty effective on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 62% (18/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Shimizu broke Habib 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Shimizu hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
The Japanese’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Little Rock Challenger.
The Japanese has a composed 19-14 win-loss record in 2024, 15-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Winnipeg Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bonzi | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 38 | 39 |
| Pts | 126-95 | 132-97 |
| Total Points | 221 | 229 |
| Winners | 34 | 42 |
| %Winners | 27% | 32% |
Both Bonzi and Shimizu played 2 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Bonzi and Shimizu have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Bonzi played 1 game less than Shimizu. Bonzi scored 34 winners (27% of the total points). On the other side, Shimizu recorded 42 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bonzi | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 5.5 | 2 |
| 1st in | 43/104 | 52/104 |
| %1st in | 41% | 50% |
| 1st pts | 34/43 | 42/52 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 37/61 | 32/52 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 62% |
Bonzi blasted 11 aces (5.5 per match). Shimizu fired 4 aces (2 per match). Bonzi won 79% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Shimizu won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bonzi | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 8 |
| Converted | 8/9 | 8/19 |
| % Converted | 89% | 42% |
| Conceded | 5 | 8 |
| Saved | 2 | 5 |
| % Saved | 40% | 63% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 |
The French player broke his opponents 8 times with a 89% conversion rate. Bonzi surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded. Yuta broke his opponents 8 times with a 42% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded.
| Bonzi | ||||
| R1 Quinn |
R2 Sekulic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 18 | 38 | |
| pts | 68-53 | 58-42 | 126-95 | |
| Total points | 121 | 100 | 221 | |
| Winners | 18 | 16 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 26% | 28% | 27% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 4 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 21/54 | 22/50 | 43/104 | |
| % 1st in | 39% | 44% | 41% | |
| 1st pts | 18/21 | 16/22 | 34/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 73% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/33 | 18/28 | 37/61 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 64% | 61% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/5 | 8/9 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 80% | 89% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 0/1 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 0% | 25% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Shimizu | ||||
| R1 Chan Hong |
R2 Habib |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-5 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 19 | 39 | |
| pts | 72-52 | 60-45 | 132-97 | |
| Total points | 124 | 105 | 229 | |
| Winners | 20 | 22 | 42 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 37% | 32% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 26/49 | 26/55 | 52/104 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 47% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 20/26 | 22/26 | 42/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 85% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 18/29 | 32/52 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Converted | 5/13 | 3/6 | 8/19 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 50% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 4/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 80% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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