Sho Shimabukuro and Moerani Bouzige will play each other in the 1st round of the Zhangjiagang Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 7:00 pm on Court 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sho Shimabukuro who should win in 2 sets.
Sho Shimabukuro -> 1.29
Moerani Bouzige -> 3.34
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Prediction and head to head Sho Shimabukuro vs. Moerani Bouzige
There is no head to head record between Sho Shimabukuro and Moerani Bouzige since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Sho Shimabukuro
12 - 17win/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. 198, the Japanese will start his run in the Zhangjiagang Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-7(3) 6-3 6-3 to Shimizu in the qualifications on the 19th of August.
Shimabukuro has a compiled 12-17 win-loss record in 2025, 9-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Sho’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Winnipeg Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 253-163 record. He has a positive 187-117 record on hard.
Previously in the Zhangjiagang Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Moerani Bouzige
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-35 | 35-34 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-33 | 42-32 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-36 | 33-27 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-19 | 13-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-4 | 21-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 330, Moerani will start his run in the Zhangjiagang Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Bali where he lost 6-3 6-3 to Castelnuovo in the 1st round on the 6th of August.
Moerani has an overall 29-25 win-loss record in 2025, 29-25 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Moerani’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Noumea Challenger and M25 Santo Domingo.
In terms of his career, Moerani has an overall 188-155 record. He has a positive 175-137 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Zhangjiagang Challenger
- Kaito UesugiUesugi – James WattWatt (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Joshua CharltonCharlton – Akira SantillanSantillan (7-64 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Hanyi LiuLiu (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Takeru YuzukiYuzuki (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Yuta KikuchiKikuchi – Charles ChenChen (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Yuta KikuchiKikuchi – Charles ChenChen (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Kaito UesugiUesugi – James WattWatt (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Joshua CharltonCharlton – Akira SantillanSantillan (7-6(4) 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Hanyi LiuLiu (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Takeru YuzukiYuzuki (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Bernard TomicTomic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Yuta KikuchiKikuchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaito UesugiUesugi – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fajing SunSun – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Oliver CrawfordCrawford (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sergey FominFomin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jie CuiCui – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sanhui ShinShin – Woobin ShinShin (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Moerani BouzigeBouzige – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Joshua CharltonCharlton – Rigele TeTe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Linang XiaoXiao – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (1-0) – H2H and prediction