Shintaro Imai and Yaroslav Demin will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:30 am on COURT 8. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yaroslav Demin who should win in 3 sets.
Yaroslav Demin -> 1.833
Shintaro Imai -> 1.89
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Prediction and head to head Shintaro Imai vs. Yaroslav Demin
There is no head to head record between Shintaro Imai and Yaroslav Demin since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Shintaro Imai
29 - 17win/loss
406
290
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-19 | 22-15 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 5-4 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-14 | 29-13 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-19 | 13-18 | 0-0 | 8-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 421, Imai reached the 1st round after beating Kaichi Uchida 6-4 6-0.
Imai has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (280-160). 21-14 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Imai has a composed 245-141 record in the last years on hard.
Shintaro’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Hong Kong and M15 Tokyo.
The Japanese has an overall 29-17 win-loss record in 2024, 21-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Shintaro has never competed in this tournament before.
Yaroslav Demin
28 - 22win/loss
631
624
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-24 | 22-16 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 8-14 | 5-7 | 3-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-4 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 624 (career-high), Demin will start his run in the Matsuyama Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Sintra where he lost 6-2 6-1
to Echeverria in the 2nd round on the 18th of October.Demin has an aggregate 28-22 win-loss record in 2024, 22-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Yaroslav’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Manacor,M15 Monastir and M15 Pontevedra.
In terms of his career, The Russian has an overall 36-40 record. He has a positive 27-23 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Matsuyama Challenger
- Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-3 6-75 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alex BoltBolt – Matej DodigDodig (6-2 3-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Guy Den OudenDen Ouden (7-5 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Sho KatayamaKatayama (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander BlockxBlockx – Shunsuke NakagawaNakagawa (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Li TuTu – Alafia AyeniAyeni (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shintaro ImaiImai – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction