Yuta Shimizu and Micah Braswell will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Lexington Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 2:00 pm on STADIUM 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yuta Shimizu who should win in 3 sets.
Yuta Shimizu -> 1.54
Micah Braswell -> 2.375
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Prediction and head to head Yuta Shimizu vs. Micah Braswell
This will be the 2nd time that Yuta Shimizu and Micah Braswell square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Shimizu (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Shimizu won 1-6 7-6(4) 6-1 in the 1st round in the Bloomfield Hills Challenger back in July 2024.
Yuta Shimizu
| 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 |
Ranked no. 263, Shimizu reached the qualifications after defeating Enzo Wallart 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Yuta had a good straight sets win against Wallart (6-3 6-1). During the match, Shimizu scored 56 points vs Wallart’s 36. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Regarding the service games, Shimizu was unable to score even 1 ace during the match and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults. Yuta Shimizu conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Shimizu put 51% of his first serves in, winning 64% (16/25) of the points behind his 1st serve and 79% (19/24) on the 2nd serve. Yuta was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Wallart 4 times.
Shimizu has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 64% of his matches (238-132). 16-14 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Shimizu has an overall184-103 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Japanese’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Little Rock Challenger.
Yuta has an aggregate 20-17 win-loss record in 2024, 16-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lexington Challenger
Yuta has never competed in this tournament before.
Micah Braswell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-13 | 17-8 | 0-0 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 7-6 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 6-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-3 | 2-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 740, the American reached the qualifications after beating Christian Langmo 7-5 6-0.
In the qualifications, Micah had a good straight sets win against Langmo (7-5 6-0). During the match Braswell scored 63 points vs Langmo’s 40. Braswell was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Braswell recorded 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Micah Braswell was pretty efficient on serve to win 74% (23/31) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Micah broke Langmo 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Micah’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Wichita.
Braswell has a composed 13-4 win-loss record in 2024, 10-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Shimizu | Braswell |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 18 |
| Pts | 56-36 | 63-40 |
| Total Points | 92 | 103 |
| Winners | 16 | 23 |
| %Winners | 29% | 37% |
Both Shimizu and Braswell played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Shimizu and Braswell have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Shimizu played 2 games less than Braswell. Shimizu scored 16 winners (29% of the total points). On the other side, Micah managed to score 23 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Shimizu | Braswell |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 3 |
| 1st in | 25/49 | 31/52 |
| %1st in | 51% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 16/25 | 23/31 |
| %1st pts | 64% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 19/24 | 13/21 |
| %2nd pts | 79% | 62% |
Shimizu didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Braswell struck 3 aces . Shimizu won 64% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 79% of the points. On the other side, Braswell won 74% 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 | Shimizu | Braswell |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/4 | 5/8 |
| % Converted | 100% | 63% |
| Conceded | 1 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Shimizu broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Yuta quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. The American broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Micah conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Shimizu | |||
| Q1 Wallart | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 56-36 | 56-36 | |
| Total points | 92 | 92 | |
| Winners | 16 | 16 | |
| %Winners | 29% | 29% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 25/49 | 25/49 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 16/25 | 16/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/24 | 19/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 79% | 79% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Braswell | |||
| Q1 Langmo | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 63-40 | 63-40 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 31/52 | 31/52 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 23/31 | 23/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 13/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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