Terence Atmane and Shintaro Imai will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:30 am on COURT 6. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Terence Atmane who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Terence Atmane is the pick to win this match.
Terence Atmane -> 1.165
Shintaro Imai -> 4.6

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Prediction and head to head Terence Atmane vs. Shintaro Imai

There is no head to head record between Terence Atmane and Shintaro Imai since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Terence Atmane

Ranked no. 157, the French player reached the 2^nd round after defeating Sho Katayama 6-1 6-2.

In the 1^st round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Katayama (6-1 6-2). During the match, Atmane scored 62 points vs Katayama’s 38. Terence was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about the service games, Atmane scored 12 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Terence Atmane was quite effective on serve to win 82% (23/28) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The French player broke Katayama 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Atmane has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 63% of his matches (202-121). 29-19 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Atmane has a compiled158-82 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.

The French player best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Granby Challenger.

The French player has a composed 37-30 win-loss record in 2024, 29-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger

Atmane has never competed in this tournament before.

Shintaro Imai

Ranked no. 421, the Japanese reached the 2^nd round after defeating Kaichi Uchida 6-4 6-0 and Yaroslav Demin 6-4 3-6 6-1

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In the 1^st round, Shintaro defeated Demin (6-4 3-6 6-1). During the match Imai scored 95 points vs Demin’s 82. Shintaro was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about serving, Imai blasted 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Shintaro Imai was exceptionally effective on serve to win 78% (29/37) of his 1st serve and 51% (22/43) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Japanese broke Demin 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).

The Japanese’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Hong Kong and M15 Tokyo.

Imai has an overall 30-17 win-loss record in 2024, 22-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Atmane	Imai
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	2	5
Tot Games	15	42
Pts	62-38	156-121
Total Points	100	277
Winners	23	51
%Winners	37%	33%

Atmane played 1 match while Imai competed in 2 matches. Imai started his run from the qualifications while Atmane had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Shintaro Imai dropped 1 set while Terence Atmane hasn’t lost a set so far. Atmane has played 3 set(s) less than Imai (2 vs 5). Therefore, Atmane played 27 games less than Imai. Atmane scored 23 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese bagged 51 winners (33%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Atmane	Imai
Aces	12	12
Avg per match	12	6
1st in	28/49	66/127
%1st in	57%	52%
1st pts	23/28	51/66
%1st pts	82%	77%
2nd pts	12/21	30/61
%2nd pts	57%	49%

Atmane scored 12 aces . Imai managed to score 12 aces (6 per match). Atmane won 82% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Imai won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 49% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Atmane	Imai
Won	4	10
Converted	4/7	10/24
% Converted	57%	42%
Conceded	2	8
Saved	2	4
% Saved	100%	50%
Times Broken	0	4

Atmane broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Terence quite strong on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 2 break points. Shintaro broke his opponents 10 times with a 42% conversion rate. Shintaro conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Atmane
	R1 Katayama	Total
Score	6-1 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	62-38	62-38
Total points	100	100
Winners	23	23
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	12	12
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	28/49	28/49
% 1st in	57%	57%
1st pts	23/28	23/28
% 1st pts	82%	82%
2nd pts	12/21	12/21
% 2nd pts	57%	57%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/7	4/7
Converted %	57%	57%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	2/2	2
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Imai
	Q1 Uchida	Q3 McCabe	R1 Demin	Total
Score	6-4 6-0	6-2 6-3	6-4 3-6 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	3	7
Tot Games	16	17	26	59
pts	61-39	–	95-82	156-121
Total points	100	0	177	277
Winners	22		29	51
%Winners	36%	0%	31%	33%
SERVE
Aces	8	0	4	12
Double Faults	4		5	9
1st in	29/47	/	37/80	66/127
% 1st in	62%	0%	46%	52%
1st pts	22/29	/	29/37	51/66
% 1st pts	76%	0%	78%	77%
2nd pts	8/18	/	22/43	30/61
% 2nd pts	44%	0%	51%	49%
Breaks
Won	6		4	10
Converted	6/10	/	4/14	10/24
Converted %	60%	0%	29%	42%
Conceded	2		6	8
Saved	0/2	0/	4/6	4
Saved %	0%	–	67%	67%
Times Broken	2		2	4

Tennis Scores in Matsuyama Challenger

• Elias YmerYmer – Rei SakamotoSakamoto (6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Federico CinaCina – Dane SweenySweeny (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• James McCabeMcCabe – Benoit PairePaire (6-7² 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Alafia AyeniAyeni (1-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Yi ZhouZhou (5-7 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Shintaro ImaiImai – Yaroslav DeminDemin (6-4 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Philip SekulicSekulic (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Matteo GiganteGigante (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
• Kokoro IsomuraIsomura – Jurij RodionovRodionov (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-3 6-7⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Alexander BlockxBlockx – Shunsuke NakagawaNakagawa (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Guy Den OudenDen Ouden (7-5 7-6³) – See score progression
• Alex BoltBolt – Matej DodigDodig (6-2 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Terence AtmaneAtmane – Sho KatayamaKatayama (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Yi ZhouZhou (5-7 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Matteo GiganteGigante (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
• Federico CinaCina – Dane SweenySweeny (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Alafia AyeniAyeni (1-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Shintaro ImaiImai – Terence AtmaneAtmane (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – (0-0) – H2H and prediction