Jay Clarke and Masamichi Imamura will face off in the 1^st round of the Pune Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 1. 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 Jay Clarke who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jay Clarke is the pick to win this match.
Jay Clarke -> 1.52
Masamichi Imamura -> 2.4

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Prediction and head to head Jay Clarke vs. Masamichi Imamura

This will be the 2^nd time that Jay Clarke and Masamichi Imamura play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Clarke (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Clarke won 6-1 6-4 in the 1^st round in the New Delhi Challenger back in February 2025.

Jay Clarke

Ranked no. 273, the Brit will start his run in the Pune Challenger after he played his last match in the New Delhi Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-3 to Jacquet in the 2^nd round on the 12^th of February.

Clarke has an overall 4-5 win-loss record in 2025, 2-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Jay has an overall 297-218 record. He has a positive 107-79 record on hard.

Previously in the Pune Challenger

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

Masamichi Imamura

Ranked no. 344 (career-high), Imamura reached the 1^st round after beating Kasidit Samrej 3-6 7-6(4) 6-4 and Blake Ellis 6-1 6-4.

In the qualifications, Imamura had a good straight sets win against Ellis (6-1 6-4). During the match Imamura scored 59 points vs Ellis’s 48. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Imamura fired 4 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Masamichi Imamura conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Imamura put 73% of his first serves in, winning 69% (25/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the 2nd serve. Masamichi broke Ellis 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Imamura started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.

The Japanese has an overall 5-6 win-loss record in 2025, 5-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Pune Challenger

• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Karan SinghSingh (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Valentin VacherotVacherot – Elmer MollerMoller (5-7 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – August HolmgrenHolmgren (4-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jay ClarkeClarke – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Billy HarrisHarris – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Michael GeertsGeerts – Marek GengelGengel (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Nicolas MejiaMejia – Bernard TomicTomic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Kyrian JacquetJacquet (0-0) – H2H and prediction