Juan Manuel Cerundolo and Yuta Shimizu will play each other in the 1^st round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. 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 Juan Manuel Cerundolo who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Juan Manuel Cerundolo is the pick to win this match.
Juan Manuel Cerundolo -> 1.69
Yuta Shimizu -> 2.07

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Prediction and head to head Juan Manuel Cerundolo vs. Yuta Shimizu

This will be the 2^nd time that Juan Manuel Cerundolo and Yuta Shimizu clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Shimizu (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Shimizu won 7-6(5) 7-5 in the qualifications in at the U.S. Open back in August 2025.

Juan Manuel Cerundolo

Ranked no. 86, Manuel Cerundolo will start his run in the Guangzhou Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 7-6(5) 7-5 to Shimizu in the qualifications on the 21^st of August.

Manuel Cerundolo has an overall 39-24 win-loss record in 2025, 2-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Manuel Cerundolo’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Braunschweig Challenger and Gstaad.

Talking about his overall career, The Argentine has an overall 284-173 record. He has a negative 11-18 record on hard.

Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger

The Argentine has never competed in this tournament before.

Yuta Shimizu

Ranked no. 202, Yuta will start his run in the Guangzhou Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 7-6(10) 6-4 to Damm in the qualifications on the 22^nd

of August.

Shimizu has an aggregate 16-17 win-loss record in 2025, 13-12 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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In terms of his career, Shimizu has an overall 273-161 record. He has a positive 216-126 record on hard.

Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.

Tennis Scores in Guangzhou Challenger

• Tianhui ZhangZhang – Wishaya TrongcharoenchaikulTrongcharoenchaikul (7-6⁴ 7-5) – See score progression
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Seita WatanabeWatanabe (7-5 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Alexandr BindaBinda – Evan ZhuZhu (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (4-6 6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Yuta KikuchiKikuchi – Hanyi LiuLiu (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Seita WatanabeWatanabe (7-5 7-6(4)) – See score progression
• Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Tomohiro MasabayashiMasabayashi (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Yuta KikuchiKikuchi – Hanyi LiuLiu (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Alexandr BindaBinda – Evan ZhuZhu (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (4-6 6-3 7-6(4)) – See score progression
• Tianhui ZhangZhang – Wishaya TrongcharoenchaikulTrongcharoenchaikul (7-6(4) 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Daniel EvansEvans – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Rigele TeTe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Billy HarrisHarris – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Pavel KotovKotov – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Linang XiaoXiao (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gauthier OnclinOnclin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction