August Holmgren and Yuta Shimizu will clash against each other in the quarter of the Granby Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 10:00 am on COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is August Holmgren who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, August Holmgren is the pick to win this match.
August Holmgren -> 1.66
Yuta Shimizu -> 2.12
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Prediction and head to head August Holmgren vs. Yuta Shimizu
There is no head to head record between August Holmgren and Yuta Shimizu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
August Holmgren
14 - 15win/loss
194
144
LWLLLWWLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-25 | 14-12 | 3-8 | 1-3 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-25 | 24-12 | 6-6 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-26 | 33-14 | 9-6 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-12 | 18-4 | 10-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-8 | 12-6 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 146 (career-high), the Dane reached the quarter after beating James Watt 6-7(5) 7-6(3) 6-4 and Marek Gengel 6-3 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The Dane had a good straight sets win against Gengel (6-3 6-4). During the match, Holmgren scored 60 points vs Gengel’s 40. Holmgren was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Holmgren made 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. August Holmgren was extremely effective on serve to win 87% (26/30) of his 1st serve and 79% (15/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. August was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Gengel twice.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Holmgren has conceded 1 set in this event to conquer 53% of the points he played.
Holmgren has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 64% of his matches (192-109). 5-5 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Holmgren has a composed118-55 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
August has an aggregate 13-15 win-loss record in 2025, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Granby Challenger
August has never competed in this tournament before.
Yuta Shimizu
13 - 15win/loss
356
181
LWLLWLWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21-25 | 17-18 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 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. 225, Yuta got to the quarter after beating Tung-Lin Wu 6-4 1-6 7-5 and Yosuke Watanuki w/o.
In the 2nd round, The Japanese defeated Watanuki (w/o). During the match Shimizu and Watanuki scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 146 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Japanese was not very aggressive do strike just winners.
About the serving games, Shimizu wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yuta Shimizu conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.
Shimizu has a compiled 13-14 win-loss record in 2025, 10-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Granby Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Holmgren | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 55 | 29 |
| Pts | 177-155 | 93-96 |
| Total Points | 332 | 189 |
| Winners | 87 | 23 |
| %Winners | 49% | 25% |
Holmgren played 2 matches while Shimizu competed in 1 match. Both players lost a set in the event. August Holmgren lost 1 set, while Yuta Shimizu conceded 1 set. Holmgren has played 2 sets more than Shimizu (5 vs 3). Therefore, Holmgren played 26 games more than Shimizu. The Dane scored 87 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Yuta bagged 23 winners (25%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Holmgren | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 24 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 12 | 4 |
| 1st in | 102/174 | 38/76 |
| %1st in | 59% | 50% |
| 1st pts | 87/102 | 23/38 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 61% |
| 2nd pts | 43/72 | 23/38 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 61% |
Holmgren blasted 24 aces (12 per match). Shimizu scored 4 aces . Holmgren won 85% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Shimizu won 61% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Holmgren | Shimizu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 4/12 |
| % Converted | 60% | 33% |
| Conceded | 5 | 4 |
| Saved | 5 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
Holmgren broke his opponents 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Dane had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 5 break points. The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Shimizu conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Holmgren | ||||
| R1 Watt |
R2 Gengel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-75 7-63 6-4 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 36 | 19 | 55 | |
| pts | 117-115 | 60-40 | 177-155 | |
| Total points | 232 | 100 | 332 | |
| Winners | 61 | 26 | 87 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 43% | 49% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 15 | 9 | 24 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 1 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 72/125 | 30/49 | 102/174 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 61% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 61/72 | 26/30 | 87/102 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 87% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 28/53 | 15/19 | 43/72 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 79% | 60% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Converted | 1/3 | 2/2 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 100% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 0/0 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Shimizu | ||||
| R1 Wu |
R2 Watanuki |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 1-6 7-5 | w/o | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | – | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | – | 29 | |
| pts | 93-96 | – | 93-96 | |
| Total points | 189 | – | 189 | |
| Winners | 23 | – | 23 | |
| %Winners | 25% | – | 25% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | – | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | – | 4 | |
| 1st in | 38/76 | – | 38/76 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | – | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 23/38 | – | 23/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 61% | – | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/38 | – | 23/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | – | 61% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | – | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | – | 4/12 | |
| Converted % | 33% | – | 33% | |
| Conceded | 4 | – | 4 | |
| Saved | 0/4 | – | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | – | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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