Kasidit Samrej and Masamichi Imamura will face off in the qualifications of the Shanghai Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 3:30 pm on COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kasidit Samrej who should win in 3 sets.
Kasidit Samrej -> 1.86
Masamichi Imamura -> 1.86
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Prediction and head to head Kasidit Samrej vs. Masamichi Imamura
This will be the 4th time that Kasidit Samrej and Masamichi Imamura fight against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Imamura (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Imamura won 6-4 7-5 in the 1st round in the Chisinau Challenger back in May 2025.
Kasidit Samrej
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-31 | 28-26 | 0-0 | 19-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-23 | 34-19 | 0-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-20 | 23-19 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-16 | 25-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-4 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 346 (career-high), Samrej reached the qualifications after defeating Aoran Wang 6-1 7-6(7).
In the qualifications, Samrej had a good straight sets win against Wang (6-1 7-67). During the match, Samrej scored 73 points vs Wang’s 59. Samrej was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Regarding the service games, Samrej managed to score 13 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Kasidit Samrej was extremely efficient on serve to win 79% (34/43) of his 1st serve and 52% (15/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Samrej broke Wang 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Samrej has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 57% of his matches (142-107). 16-18 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Samrej has a composed120-99 record in the last 9 years on hard.
Kasidit’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Maanshan and M15 Singapore.
The Thai has a composed 34-21 win-loss record in 2025, 16-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shanghai Challenger
Samrej has never competed in this tournament before.
Masamichi Imamura
15 - 22win/loss
522
331
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-32 | 22-28 | 0-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 56-29 | 48-25 | 2-1 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 4-5 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-26 | 36-23 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-15 | 24-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 421, Imamura got to the qualifications after defeating Hanyi Liu 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications, Imamura had a good straight sets win against Liu (6-4 6-1). During the match Imamura scored 65 points vs Liu’s 45. Imamura was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Imamura managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Masamichi Imamura lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Imamura put 67% of his first serves in, winning 81% (29/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. Masamichi broke Liu 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Imamura’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M25 Taipei.
Imamura has a compiled 15-22 win-loss record in 2025, 15-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Samrej | Imamura |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 17 |
| Pts | 73-59 | 65-45 |
| Total Points | 132 | 110 |
| Winners | 34 | 29 |
| %Winners | 47% | 45% |
Both Samrej and Imamura played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Samrej and Imamura have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Samrej played 3 games more than Imamura. The Thai scored 34 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Imamura made 29 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Samrej | Imamura |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 13 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 13 | 3 |
| 1st in | 43/72 | 36/54 |
| %1st in | 60% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 34/43 | 29/36 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 15/29 | 8/18 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 44% |
Samrej fired 13 aces . Imamura struck 3 aces . Samrej won 79% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Imamura won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 44% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Samrej | Imamura |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 60% | 50% |
| Conceded | 3 | 5 |
| Saved | 2 | 4 |
| % Saved | 67% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Kasidit broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Kasidit surrendered his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Imamura conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Samrej | |||
| Q1 Wang | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-67 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 73-59 | 73-59 | |
| Total points | 132 | 132 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 13 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 43/72 | 43/72 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 34/43 | 34/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/29 | 15/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Imamura | |||
| Q1 Liu | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 65-45 | 65-45 | |
| Total points | 110 | 110 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 36/54 | 36/54 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 29/36 | 29/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/18 | 8/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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