Sho Shimabukuro and Mark Lajal will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on Court 16. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mark Lajal who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mark Lajal is the pick to win this match.
Mark Lajal -> 1.79
Sho Shimabukuro -> 1.98
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Prediction and head to head Sho Shimabukuro vs. Mark Lajal
There is no head to head record between Sho Shimabukuro and Mark Lajal since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Sho Shimabukuro
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-28 | 21-17 | 1-3 | 3-5 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-26 | 19-17 | 7-1 | 9-4 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-25 | 38-20 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-20 | 28-18 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 194, Shimabukuro got to the qualifications after defeating Radu Albot 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Albot (6-2 6-3). During the match, Shimabukuro scored 66 points vs Albot’s 46. Shimabukuro was very aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Talking about the service games, Shimabukuro fired 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Sho Shimabukuro was very effective on serve to win 84% (16/19) of his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Albot 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Shimabukuro has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (242-147). 1-1 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Shimabukuro has an overall 179-104 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Shimabukuro has a compiled 1-1 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Mark Lajal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-30 | 18-14 | 0-3 | 15-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 25-16 | 5-2 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-24 | 35-12 | 2-6 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-7 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 234, the Estonian reached the qualifications after defeating Mikhail Kukushkin 6-0 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Estonian had a good straight sets win against Kukushkin (6-0 6-2). During the match Lajal scored 56 points vs Kukushkin’s 29. The Estonian was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Lajal recorded 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Mark Lajal lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Lajal put 67% of his first serves in, winning 79% (23/29) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (6/14) on the 2nd serve. Mark broke Kukushkin 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).
Mark has a composed 1-0 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Shimabukuro | Lajal |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 14 |
| Pts | 66-46 | 56-29 |
| Total Points | 112 | 85 |
| Winners | 16 | 23 |
| %Winners | 24% | 41% |
Both Shimabukuro and Lajal played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Shimabukuro and Lajal have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Shimabukuro played 3 games more than Lajal. Sho scored 16 winners (24% of the total points). On the other side, Lajal bagged 23 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Shimabukuro | Lajal |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 6 |
| 1st in | 19/49 | 29/43 |
| %1st in | 39% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 16/19 | 23/29 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 6/14 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 43% |
Shimabukuro fired 6 aces . Lajal fired 6 aces . Shimabukuro won 84% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Lajal won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 43% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Shimabukuro | Lajal |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 6/7 |
| % Converted | 63% | 86% |
| Conceded | 3 | 2 |
| Saved | 2 | 1 |
| % Saved | 67% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Shimabukuro broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Sho lost his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Lajal broke his opponent 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. Mark conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Shimabukuro | |||
| Q1 Albot |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 66-46 | 66-46 | |
| Total points | 112 | 112 | |
| Winners | 16 | 16 | |
| %Winners | 24% | 24% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 19/49 | 19/49 | |
| % 1st in | 39% | 39% | |
| 1st pts | 16/19 | 16/19 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 17/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Lajal | |||
| Q1 Kukushkin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 56-29 | 56-29 | |
| Total points | 85 | 85 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 29/43 | 29/43 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/14 | 6/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/7 | 6/7 | |
| Converted % | 86% | 86% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
WL
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