Li Tu and Hikaru Shiraishi will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Brisbane 2 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:30 pm on PAT RAFTER ARENA. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Li Tu who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Li Tu is the pick to win this match.
Li Tu -> 1.131
Hikaru Shiraishi -> 5.25

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Prediction and head to head Li Tu vs. Hikaru Shiraishi

There is no head to head record between Li Tu and Hikaru Shiraishi since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Li Tu

Ranked no. 170, the Australian will start his run in the Brisbane 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Brisbane 1 Challenger where he lost 7-6(3) 6-4 to Ellis in the 1^st round on the 28^th of January.

Li has a compiled 2-4 win-loss record in 2025, 2-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 174-97 record. He has a positive 130-64 record on hard.

Previously in the Brisbane 2 Challenger

Tu has never competed in this tournament before.

Hikaru Shiraishi

Ranked no. 559, Shiraishi got to the 1^st round after defeating Duje Markovina 6-4 6-3 and Hayato Matsuoka 6-1 3-6 6-3.

In the qualifications, Shiraishi defeated Matsuoka (6-1 3-6 6-3). During the match Shiraishi scored 83 points vs Matsuoka’s 71. Hikaru was exceptionally aggressive to blast 37 winners.

About the serving games, Shiraishi scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Hikaru Shiraishi lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Shiraishi put 67% of his first serves in, winning 73% (37/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (11/25) on the 2nd serve. Hikaru broke Matsuoka 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Hikaru started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Shiraishi has an aggregate 5-3 win-loss record in 2025, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Brisbane 2 Challenger

• Christian LangmoLangmo – Dane SweenySweeny (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• James McCabeMcCabe – Jacob BradshawBradshaw (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maxime JanvierJanvier – Alex BoltBolt (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Arthur WeberWeber (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Li TuTu – Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Kousuke OguraOgura (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Christian LangmoLangmo – Maxime JanvierJanvier (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Blake EllisEllis – Omar JasikaJasika (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Marek GengelGengel – Charles BroomBroom (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Bernard TomicTomic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Adam WaltonWalton – Govind NandaNanda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Moerani BouzigeBouzige – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Matthew HulmeHulme – (0-0) – H2H and prediction