Masamichi Imamura and Thomas Fancutt will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Playford Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:30 am on COURT 2. 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 Masamichi Imamura who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Masamichi Imamura is the pick to win this match.
Masamichi Imamura -> 1.42
Thomas Fancutt -> 2.69

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Prediction and head to head Masamichi Imamura vs. Thomas Fancutt

There is no head to head record between Masamichi Imamura and Thomas Fancutt since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Masamichi Imamura

Ranked no. 409, Masamichi reached the 2^nd round after beating Colin Sinclair 7-6(4) 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Imamura had a good straight sets win against Sinclair (7-6⁴ 6-3). During the match, Imamura scored 74 points vs Sinclair’s 64. Imamura was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Regarding the service games, Imamura blasted 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Masamichi Imamura was very efficient on serve to win 76% (35/46) of his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Imamura broke Sinclair twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).

Imamura has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 63% of his matches (134-80). 44-20 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Imamura has a composed123-73 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.

Masamichi’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Kashiwa,M25 Changwon,M15 Tokyo,M25 Roehampton and M25 Takasaki.

Imamura has an overall 51-23 win-loss record in 2024, 44-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Playford Challenger

Masamichi has never competed in this tournament before.

Thomas Fancutt

Ranked no. 764, the Australian got to the 2^nd round after beating Thijmen Loof 6-4 3-6 6-3 and Edward Winter 7-5 7-6(2).

In the 1^st round, Fancutt had a good straight sets win against Winter (7-5 7-6²). During the match Fancutt scored 80 points vs Winter’s 69. Fancutt was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about serving, Fancutt scored 12 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Thomas Fancutt was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (35/48) of his 1st serve and 61% (17/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Australian broke Winter 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).

Fancutt has a compiled 13-17 win-loss record in 2024, 8-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Playford Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2019. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Imamura	Fancutt
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	2	5
Tot Games	22	53
Pts	74-64	169-151
Total Points	138	320
Winners	35	77
%Winners	47%	46%

Imamura played 1 match while Fancutt competed in 2 matches. Fancutt started his run from the qualifications while Imamura had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Thomas Fancutt conceded 1 set while Masamichi Imamura hasn’t dropped a set so far. Imamura has played 3 set(s) less than Fancutt (2 vs 5). Therefore, Imamura played 31 games less than Fancutt. Masamichi scored 35 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Thomas bagged 77 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Imamura	Fancutt
Aces	4	21
Avg per match	4	10.5
1st in	46/71	101/157
%1st in	65%	64%
1st pts	35/46	77/101
%1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	15/25	33/56
%2nd pts	60%	59%

Imamura bagged 4 aces . Fancutt scored 21 aces (10.5 per match). Imamura won 76% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Fancutt won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Imamura	Fancutt
Won	2	5
Converted	2/8	5/12
% Converted	25%	42%
Conceded	3	13
Saved	2	10
% Saved	67%	77%
Times Broken	1	3

Imamura broke his opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. Imamura surrendered his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Thomas broke his opponents 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 77% of the break points that he conceded.

Imamura
	R1 Sinclair	Total
Score	7-64 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	74-64	74-64
Total points	138	138
Winners	35	35
%Winners	47%	47%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	46/71	46/71
% 1st in	65%	65%
1st pts	35/46	35/46
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	15/25	15/25
% 2nd pts	60%	60%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/8	2/8
Converted %	25%	25%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

Fancutt
	Q1 Loof	Q3 Sinclair	R1 Winter	Total
Score	6-4 3-6 6-3	7-65 6-3	7-5 7-62
Tot Set	3	2	2	7
Tot Games	28	22	25	75
pts	89-82	–	80-69	169-151
Total points	171	0	149	320
Winners	42		35	77
%Winners	47%	0%	44%	46%
SERVE
Aces	9	0	12	21
Double Faults	2		4	6
1st in	53/81	/	48/76	101/157
% 1st in	65%	0%	63%	64%
1st pts	42/53	/	35/48	77/101
% 1st pts	79%	0%	73%	76%
2nd pts	16/28	/	17/28	33/56
% 2nd pts	57%	0%	61%	59%
Breaks
Won	2		3	5
Converted	2/8	/	3/4	5/12
Converted %	25%	0%	75%	42%
Conceded	6		7	13
Saved	5/6	0/	5/7	10
Saved %	83%	–	71%	154%
Times Broken	1		2	3

Tennis Scores in Playford Challenger

• Christian LangmoLangmo – Pavle MarinkovMarinkov (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Colin SinclairSinclair (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda – Ajeet RaiRai (3-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Zura TkemaladzeTkemaladze (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Thomas FancuttFancutt – Edward WinterWinter (7-5 7-6²) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Shintaro ImaiImai – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Blake MottMott (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Emile HuddHudd (7-6⁴ 7-6²) – See score progression
• Omar JasikaJasika – Takuya KumasakaKumasaka (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Philip SekulicSekulic – Tibo ColsonColson (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Dane SweenySweeny – Blake EllisEllis (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Moerani BouzigeBouzige – Jacob BradshawBradshaw (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Aleksandre BakshiBakshi (7-5 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Li TuTu – (4-1) – H2H and prediction
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Shintaro ImaiImai (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Christian LangmoLangmo – Omar JasikaJasika (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Thomas FancuttFancutt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Dane SweenySweeny (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda – (0-0) – H2H and prediction