Yuta Shimizu and Philip Henning will fight against each other in the quarter of the Jinan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:30 am on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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
Philip Henning -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Yuta Shimizu vs. Philip Henning
There is no head to head record between Yuta Shimizu and Philip Henning 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 | 33-28 | 29-24 | 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. 261, Shimizu reached the quarter after beating Yuquan Jin 6-4 6-2 and Yi Zhou 6-2 6-1.
In the 2nd round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Zhou (6-2 6-1). During the match, Shimizu scored 63 points vs Zhou’s 36. Shimizu was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Shimizu recorded 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Yuta Shimizu was quite efficient on serve to win 76% (22/29) of his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Yuta broke Zhou 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Shimizu hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Shimizu has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 64% of his matches (240-134). 18-16 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Shimizu has a compiled186-105 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
Yuta’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Little Rock Challenger.
Shimizu has a composed 22-19 win-loss record in 2024, 18-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Jinan Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Philip Henning
38 - 8win/loss
391
355
LLWWWWWLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 43-14 | 31-8 | 12-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-4 | 23-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-3 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 5-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 388 (career-high), Henning reached the quarter after defeating Hiroki Moriya 6-0 6-4 and Sanhui Shin 6-2 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Henning had a good straight sets win against Shin (6-2 6-3). During the match Henning scored 67 points vs Shin’s 46. Philip was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Henning blasted 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Philip Henning was very efficient on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Philip broke Shin 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Philip hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 59% of the points he played.
Henning’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh,M15 Antalya,M25 Addis Ababa and M15 Hillcrest.
The South African has an overall 38-7 win-loss record in 2024, 26-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Shimizu | Henning |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 33 | 33 |
| Pts | 125-92 | 134-95 |
| Total Points | 217 | 229 |
| Winners | 49 | 40 |
| %Winners | 39% | 30% |
Both Shimizu and Henning played 2 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Shimizu and Henning have played the same amount of sets 4. They also played the same amount of games (33). Yuta scored 49 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The South African fired 40 winners (30%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Shimizu | Henning |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 4 |
| 1st in | 67/104 | 56/98 |
| %1st in | 64% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 49/67 | 40/56 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 21/37 | 25/42 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 60% |
Shimizu bagged 10 aces (5 per match). Henning made 8 aces (4 per match). Shimizu won 73% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Henning won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Shimizu | Henning |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 10 |
| Converted | 8/17 | 10/20 |
| % Converted | 47% | 50% |
| Conceded | 5 | 4 |
| Saved | 5 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 25% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
The Japanese broke his opponents 8 times with a 47% conversion rate. Yuta was rock solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 5 break points. Henning broke his opponents 10 times with a 50% conversion rate. Philip conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded.
| Shimizu | ||||
| R1 Jin |
R2 Zhou |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 15 | 33 | |
| pts | 62-56 | 63-36 | 125-92 | |
| Total points | 118 | 99 | 217 | |
| Winners | 27 | 22 | 49 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 35% | 39% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 38/59 | 29/45 | 67/104 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 27/38 | 22/29 | 49/67 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 76% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 9/16 | 21/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 56% | 57% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 5/9 | 8/17 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 56% | 47% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 2/2 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Henning | ||||
| R1 Moriya |
R2 Shin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-4 | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 17 | 33 | |
| pts | 67-49 | 67-46 | 134-95 | |
| Total points | 116 | 113 | 229 | |
| Winners | 19 | 21 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 31% | 30% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 30/51 | 26/47 | 56/98 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 55% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 19/30 | 21/26 | 40/56 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 81% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/21 | 14/21 | 25/42 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 67% | 60% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 4 | 10 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 4/9 | 10/20 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 44% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 0/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 0% | 17% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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