Emma Raducanu and Ena Shibahara will clash against each other in the 1st round of the U.S. Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 11:00 am on Louis Armstrong Stadium. 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 Emma Raducanu who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Emma Raducanu is the pick to win this match.
Emma Raducanu -> 1.158
Ena Shibahara -> 5.3

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Prediction and head to head Emma Raducanu vs. Ena Shibahara

This will be the 2nd time that Emma Raducanu and Ena Shibahara face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Raducanu (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Raducanu won 6-1 6-4 in the 1st round in Nottingham back in 2024.

Highlights Emma Raducanu vs Ena Shibahara – Nottingham 11-June-2024

Emma Raducanu

Emma Raducanu

24 - 17win/loss

Hard
13-9
I Hard
0-1
Clay
6-4
Grass
5-3
Rank
29
High
10
LLLWLWLWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 28-22 17-14 6-4 0-1 5-3 0-0
2024 23-13 9-8 4-2 3-0 7-3 0-0
2023 5-5 5-4 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 17-19 10-11 6-5 0-1 1-2 0-0
2021 25-9 18-4 0-0 2-2 5-3 0-0

Ranked no. 35, Raducanu will start her run at the U.S. Open after she played her last match in Cincinnati where she lost 7-6(3) 4-6 7-6(5) to Sabalenka in the 3rd round on the 11th of August.

Raducanu has a composed 24-17 win-loss record in 2025, 13-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Emma’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Washington.

Talking about her overall career, The Brit has an overall 145-79 record. She has a positive 91-43 record on hard.

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, she won this tournament once in 2021. See her history.

U.S. Open
Raducanu's Record

Ena Shibahara

Ena Shibahara

24 - 20win/loss

Hard
13-10
I Hard
2-2
Clay
6-4
Grass
3-4
Rank
197
High
116
LLLLLLWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 25-27 14-16 6-4 2-3 3-4 0-0
2024 51-19 42-14 5-3 2-0 2-2 0-0
2023 16-15 12-12 4-3 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 16-15 11-8 1-3 4-4 0-0 0-0
2021 5-7 5-7 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 130, Shibahara got to the 1st round after beating Kayla Day 7-5 6-1, Elena Pridankina 7-6(5) 7-6(7) and Varvara Gracheva 6-0 6-4.

In the qualifications, Shibahara had a good straight sets win against Gracheva (6-0 6-4). During the match Shibahara scored 55 points vs Gracheva’s 33. Shibahara was quite aggressive to blast 17 winners.

Talking about serving, Shibahara struck 5 aces and she was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Ena Shibahara was extremely efficient on serve to win 89% (17/19) of her 1st serve and 71% (15/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Shibahara broke Gracheva 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Ena started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 55% of the points she played.

The American’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the W100 Tokyo and the W75 Prague.

Shibahara has a composed 24-20 win-loss record in 2025, 13-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See her history.

U.S. Open
Shibahara's Record

Tennis Scores – U.S. Open

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