Juan Manuel Cerundolo and Sho Shimabukuro will play each other in the qualifications of the Japan Open Tennis Championships for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COLOSSEUM. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.7
Sho Shimabukuro -> 2.06

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Prediction and head to head Juan Manuel Cerundolo vs. Sho Shimabukuro

This will be the 2^nd time that Juan Manuel Cerundolo and Sho Shimabukuro play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Shimabukuro (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Shimabukuro won 6-4 6-4 in the 1^st round in M15 Antalya back in 2019.

Juan Manuel Cerundolo

Ranked no. 72 (career-high), Juan reached the qualifications after defeating Rio Noguchi 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications, Manuel Cerundolo had a good straight sets win against Noguchi (6-3 6-2). During the match, Manuel Cerundolo scored 57 points vs Noguchi’s 38. The Argentine was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about the service games, Manuel Cerundolo recorded 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Juan Manuel Cerundolo lost the serve once. Furthermore, Manuel Cerundolo put 60% of his first serves in, winning 86% (24/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. Manuel Cerundolo was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Noguchi 4 times.

Manuel Cerundolo has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 62% of his matches (290-174). 8-6 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Manuel Cerundolo has a composed17-19 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.

His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Guangzhou Challenger where he beat Alejandro Tabilo in the final 6-2 6-3.

Juan has an overall 45-25 win-loss record in 2025, 8-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Tokyo

Juan has never competed in this tournament before.

Sho Shimabukuro

Ranked no. 271, Shimabukuro got to the qualifications after beating Mariano Navone 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications, Sho had a good straight sets win against Navone (6-2 6-3). During the match Shimabukuro scored 66 points vs Navone’s 52. Sho was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Shimabukuro wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Sho Shimabukuro was extremely efficient on serve to win 72% (23/32) of his 1st serve and 59% (16/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Navone 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

His best result of the year was winning the title the Zhangjiagang Challenger where he beat Oliver Crawford in the final 6-3 3-6 7-5.

Sho has an overall 18-18 win-loss record in 2025, 15-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Manuel Cerundolo	Shimabukuro
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
Pts	57-38	66-52
Total Points	95	118
Winners	24	23
%Winners	42%	35%

Both Manuel Cerundolo and Shimabukuro 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, Manuel Cerundolo and Shimabukuro have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (17). Manuel Cerundolo scored 24 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese made 23 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Manuel Cerundolo	Shimabukuro
Aces	4	0
Avg per match	4	0
1st in	28/47	32/59
%1st in	60%	54%
1st pts	24/28	23/32
%1st pts	86%	72%
2nd pts	9/19	16/27
%2nd pts	47%	59%

Manuel Cerundolo recorded 4 aces . Shimabukuro didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Manuel Cerundolo won 86% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Shimabukuro won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Manuel Cerundolo	Shimabukuro
Won	4	4
Converted	4/4	4/9
% Converted	100%	44%
Conceded	1	2
Saved	0	2
% Saved	0%	100%
Times Broken	1	0

Manuel Cerundolo broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Argentine conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Shimabukuro broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Sho was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.

Manuel Cerundolo
	Q1 Noguchi	Total
Score	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	57-38	57-38
Total points	95	95
Winners	24	24
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	28/47	28/47
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	24/28	24/28
% 1st pts	86%	86%
2nd pts	9/19	9/19
% 2nd pts	47%	47%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/4	4/4
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

Shimabukuro
	Q1 Navone	Total
Score	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	66-52	66-52
Total points	118	118
Winners	23	23
%Winners	35%	35%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	32/59	32/59
% 1st in	54%	54%
1st pts	23/32	23/32
% 1st pts	72%	72%
2nd pts	16/27	16/27
% 2nd pts	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/9	4/9
Converted %	44%	44%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	2/2	2
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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