Alexander Shevchenko and Sho Shimabukuro will play each other in the 2nd round of the Sumter Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:00 pm on GRANDSTAND. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Shevchenko who should win in 3 sets.
Alexander Shevchenko -> 1.75
Sho Shimabukuro -> 1.99
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Shevchenko vs. Sho Shimabukuro
There is no head to head record between Alexander Shevchenko and Sho Shimabukuro since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Alexander Shevchenko
25 - 27win/loss
97
45
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-34 | 11-12 | 19-16 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 22-35 | 8-13 | 6-12 | 7-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-34 | 16-15 | 19-13 | 10-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-33 | 2-4 | 41-23 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 49-27 | 8-4 | 33-17 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 102, the Kazakhstani will start his run in the Sumter Challenger after he played his last match in Cincinnati where he lost 7-6(6) 4-1 ret. to Elahi Galan Riveros in the qualifications on the 6th of August.
Alexander has a compiled 24-27 win-loss record in 2025, 4-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Shevchenko’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Australia and the Bratislava 1 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Kazakhstani has an overall 276-198 record. He has a positive 52-49 record on hard.
Previously in the Sumter Challenger
Alexander has never competed in this tournament before.
Sho Shimabukuro
12 - 16win/loss
145
135
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-23 | 29-19 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 3-3 | 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. 208, Shimabukuro reached the 2nd round after beating Yoshihito Nishioka 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, Shimabukuro had a good straight sets win against Nishioka (6-3 7-5). During the match Shimabukuro scored 70 points vs Nishioka’s 53. Sho was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Shimabukuro blasted 10 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Sho Shimabukuro was pretty effective on serve to win 85% (29/34) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Shimabukuro broke Nishioka 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Sho’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Winnipeg Challenger.
Sho has an overall 12-15 win-loss record in 2025, 9-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Sumter Challenger
- Mark LajalLajal – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (1-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Henrique RochaRocha – Martin DammDamm (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Martin LandaluceLandaluce (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Lukas KleinKlein – Ryan SeggermanSeggerman (6-4 ret.) – See score progression
- Murphy CassoneCassone – Darwin BlanchBlanch (7-5 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- James McCabeMcCabe – Jacob FearnleyFearnley (3-6 7-5 ret.) – See score progression
- Karl PolingPoling – Daniel EvansEvans (1-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Christopher EubanksEubanks (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Alex RybakovRybakov (7-5 7-62) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Kaylan BigunBigun – Rei SakamotoSakamoto (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Jaime FariaFaria – Hady HabibHabib (6-79 6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Mark LajalLajal – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (1-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Henrique RochaRocha – Martin DammDamm (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Karl PolingPoling – Daniel EvansEvans (1-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Martin LandaluceLandaluce (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Murphy CassoneCassone – Darwin BlanchBlanch (7-5 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Filip MisolicMisolic (0-0) – H2H and prediction