Masamichi Imamura and Colin Sinclair will square off in the 1st round of the Playford Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Masamichi Imamura who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Masamichi Imamura is the pick to win this match.
Masamichi Imamura -> 1.52
Colin Sinclair -> 2.4
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Prediction and head to head Masamichi Imamura vs. Colin Sinclair
This will be the 2nd time that Masamichi Imamura and Colin Sinclair fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sinclair (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Sinclair won 7-6(4) 6-2 in the 2nd round in M15 Monastir back in 2022.
Masamichi Imamura
50 - 23win/loss
349
346
LLWLWLLWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 56-29 | 48-25 | 2-1 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 4-5 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-26 | 36-23 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-15 | 24-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 409, Imamura will start his run in the Playford Challenger after he won the title in M25 Takasaki after beating w/o Saitoh in the final.
The Japanese has a composed 50-23 win-loss record in 2024, 43-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Masamichi’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Kashiwa,M25 Changwon,M15 Tokyo,M25 Roehampton and M25 Takasaki.
Talking about his overall career, Imamura has an overall 133-80 record. He has a positive 122-73 record on hard.
Previously in the Playford Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Colin Sinclair
21 - 13win/loss
689
340
LLWLLWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-17 | 18-15 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-32 | 31-25 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-22 | 22-14 | 7-5 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-21 | 22-8 | 14-9 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-12 | 3-7 | 6-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 680, Colin got to the 1st round after defeating Charlie Camus 6-4 6-1 and Thomas Fancutt 7-6(5) 6-3.
In the qualifications, Colin had a good straight sets win against Fancutt (7-65 6-3). During the match Sinclair scored 70 points vs Fancutt’s 60. Colin was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Sinclair blasted 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Colin Sinclair was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Colin broke Fancutt 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 56% of the points he played.
Colin’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Hong Kong.
Sinclair has a composed 21-13 win-loss record in 2024, 17-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Li TuTu – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blake MottMott – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Zura TkemaladzeTkemaladze (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christian LangmoLangmo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Colin SinclairSinclair (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Emile HuddHudd (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Takuya KumasakaKumasaka – Omar JasikaJasika (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taisei IchikawaIchikawa – Shintaro ImaiImai (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda – Ajeet RaiRai (0-0) – H2H and prediction
