Sho Shimabukuro and Ryotaro Taguchi will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on CENTRE COURT. 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 Sho Shimabukuro who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sho Shimabukuro is the pick to win this match.
Sho Shimabukuro -> 1.105
Ryotaro Taguchi -> 5.85

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Prediction and head to head Sho Shimabukuro vs. Ryotaro Taguchi

There is no head to head record between Sho Shimabukuro and Ryotaro Taguchi since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Sho Shimabukuro

Ranked no. 195, the Japanese will start his run in the Yokkaichi Challenger after he played his last match in the Yokohama Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-4 to Hassan in the 1^st round on the 18^th of November.

The Japanese has an aggregate 29-27 win-loss record in 2024, 20-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the season was winning the title the Shanghai Challenger where he beat Yu Hsiou Hsu in the final 6-4 6-4.

Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 240-145 record. He has a positive 177-102 record on hard.

Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See his history.

Ryotaro Taguchi

Ranked no. 545 (career-high), Ryotaro reached the 1^st round after beating Shion Motoyama 6-1 6-2 and Hikaru Shiraishi 6-3 6-0.

In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Shiraishi (6-3 6-0). During the match Taguchi scored 66 points vs Shiraishi’s 45. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Taguchi struck 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ryotaro Taguchi lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Taguchi put 67% of his first serves in, winning 62% (26/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Shiraishi 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 63% of the points he played.

The Japanese’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Hinode,Tokyo,M15 Kashiwa,M25 Tianjin,M25 Taipei and M25 Huzhou.

Ryotaro has an overall 41-20 win-loss record in 2024, 39-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Yokkaichi Challenger

• Federico CinaCina – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Dane SweenySweeny (7-6¹⁰ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Kokoro IsomuraIsomura (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Omar JasikaJasika – Kris Van WykVan Wyk (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Christoph NegrituNegritu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elias YmerYmer – Alexey ZakharovZakharov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi – (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Benjamin HassanHassan – Jakub PaulPaul (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Masamichi ImamuraImamura – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Alafia AyeniAyeni (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Philip HenningHenning – (0-0) – H2H and prediction