Adam Walton and Yuta Shimizu will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Busan Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 2. 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 Adam Walton who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Adam Walton is the pick to win this match.
Adam Walton -> 1.35
Yuta Shimizu -> 2.99
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Prediction and head to head Adam Walton vs. Yuta Shimizu
This will be the 2nd time that Adam Walton and Yuta Shimizu fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Walton (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Walton won 7-6(5) 6-0 in the 1st round in the Taipei Challenger back in 2024.
Adam Walton
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25-14 | 24-13 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 54-37 | 46-27 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-30 | 53-26 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-12 | 41-10 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 86, Adam reached the 2nd round after defeating Rio Noguchi 6-0 6-2.
In the 1st round, Adam had a good straight sets win against Noguchi (6-0 6-2). During the match, Walton scored 54 points vs Noguchi’s 30. Adam was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Walton scored 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Adam Walton was very efficient on serve to win 80% (20/25) of his 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Walton broke Noguchi 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Walton has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 65% of his matches (182-99). 19-10 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Walton has an aggregate168-79 match record in the last 7 years on hard.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Brisbane 2 Challenger where he defeated Jason Murray Kubler in the final 7-6(6) 7-6(4).
The Australian has an aggregate 20-11 win-loss record in 2025, 19-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Yuta Shimizu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7-8 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-29 | 35-25 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-24 | 35-23 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-23 | 36-21 | 7-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-12 | 12-8 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 194, the Japanese reached the 2nd round after defeating Sho Shimabukuro 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Shimizu had a good straight sets win against Shimabukuro (6-3 6-1). During the match Shimizu scored 78 points vs Shimabukuro’s 57. Shimizu was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Shimizu managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yuta Shimizu lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Shimizu put 69% of his first serves in, winning 61% (25/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the 2nd serve. Shimizu broke Shimabukuro 5 times after converting 33% of his break points (5/15).
The Japanese has a compiled 7-7 win-loss record in 2025, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Walton | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 16 |
| Pts | 54-30 | 78-57 |
| Total Points | 84 | 135 |
| Winners | 20 | 25 |
| %Winners | 37% | 32% |
Both Walton and Shimizu played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Walton and Shimizu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Walton played 2 games less than Shimizu. Adam scored 20 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Shimizu bagged 25 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Walton | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 3 |
| 1st in | 25/39 | 41/59 |
| %1st in | 64% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 20/25 | 25/41 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 61% |
| 2nd pts | 8/14 | 13/18 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 72% |
Walton bagged 7 aces . Shimizu blasted 3 aces . Walton won 80% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Shimizu won 61% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 72% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Walton | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/15 |
| % Converted | 71% | 33% |
| Conceded | 0 | 4 |
| Saved | 0 | 3 |
| % Saved | 0% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Walton broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Adam pretty solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Yuta broke his opponent 5 times with a 33% conversion rate. Shimizu conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Walton | |||
| R1 Noguchi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 54-30 | 54-30 | |
| Total points | 84 | 84 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 25/39 | 25/39 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 20/25 | 20/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/14 | 8/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Shimizu | |||
| R1 Shimabukuro |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 78-57 | 78-57 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 41/59 | 41/59 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 25/41 | 25/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 61% | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/18 | 13/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 72% | 72% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/15 | 5/15 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLWWLLWWL Tennis Scores in Busan Challenger
- Ilia SimakinSimakin – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (6-77 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Omar JasikaJasika – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (0-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Li TuTu – Marat SharipovSharipov (6-2 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Sanhui ShinShin – Johannus MondayMonday (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (3-6 6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Alex BoltBolt – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – James McCabeMcCabe (7-64 7-62) – See score progression
- Hyeon ChungChung – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Christopher EubanksEubanks (3-6 7-63 6-0) – See score progression
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltHolt – Constant LestienneLestienne (1-6 7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Rei SakamotoSakamoto (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Gerard Campana LeeCampana Lee – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Adam WaltonWalton – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (7-6(4) 6-3) – See score progression
- Li TuTu – Marat SharipovSharipov (6-2 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Sanhui ShinShin – Johannus MondayMonday (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Omar JasikaJasika – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (0-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ilia SimakinSimakin – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (6-7(7) 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Alex BoltBolt – Brandon HoltHolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hyeon ChungChung – Li TuTu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Sanhui ShinShin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Omar JasikaJasika (2-0) – H2H and prediction
