Masamichi Imamura and Michael Vrbensky will play each other in the qualifications of the Seoul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT 13. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Michael Vrbensky who should win in 3 sets.
Michael Vrbensky -> 1.53
Masamichi Imamura -> 2.39
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Prediction and head to head Masamichi Imamura vs. Michael Vrbensky
There is no head to head record between Masamichi Imamura and Michael Vrbensky since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Masamichi Imamura
21 - 28win/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. 469, Imamura reached the qualifications after beating Kaito Uesugi 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Imamura had a good straight sets win against Uesugi (6-3 6-3). During the match, Imamura scored 71 points vs Uesugi’s 56. Imamura was quite aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about the service games, Imamura was unable to score even 1 ace in the encounter and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Masamichi Imamura lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Imamura put 48% of his first serves in, winning 56% (18/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 62% (21/34) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Uesugi 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Imamura has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 58% of his matches (160-114). 21-26 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Imamura has a composed148-104 record in the last 7 years on hard.
The Japanese’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Taipei and M25 Perth.
Masamichi has a composed 21-28 win-loss record in 2025, 21-26 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Masamichi has never competed in this tournament before.
Michael Vrbensky
21 - 27win/loss
636
277
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-31 | 4-4 | 19-20 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-27 | 4-4 | 32-18 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 58-28 | 11-6 | 44-21 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-27 | 7-3 | 37-16 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 17-24 | 2-1 | 14-21 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 706, Vrbensky got to the qualifications after beating Dominik Palan 6-2 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Palan (6-2 7-5). During the match Vrbensky scored 74 points vs Palan’s 62. Michael was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Vrbensky recorded 4 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Michael Vrbensky lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Vrbensky put 60% of his first serves in, winning 76% (29/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. The Czech broke Palan 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Michael’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Opatija.
The Czech has an aggregate 21-27 win-loss record in 2025, 1-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Imamura | Vrbensky |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 20 |
| Pts | 71-56 | 74-62 |
| Total Points | 127 | 136 |
| Winners | 18 | 29 |
| %Winners | 25% | 39% |
Both Imamura and Vrbensky played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Imamura and Vrbensky have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Imamura played 2 games less than Vrbensky. Imamura scored 18 winners (25% of the total points). On the other side, Michael fired 29 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Imamura | Vrbensky |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 4 |
| 1st in | 32/66 | 38/63 |
| %1st in | 48% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 18/32 | 29/38 |
| %1st pts | 56% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 21/34 | 12/25 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 48% |
Imamura didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Vrbensky fired 4 aces . Imamura won 56% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Vrbensky won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Imamura | Vrbensky |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 4/10 |
| % Converted | 71% | 40% |
| Conceded | 8 | 6 |
| Saved | 6 | 5 |
| % Saved | 75% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Masamichi broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Imamura dropped his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Czech broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Czech conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Imamura | |||
| Q1 Uesugi | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 71-56 | 71-56 | |
| Total points | 127 | 127 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 25% | 25% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 32/66 | 32/66 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 18/32 | 18/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 56% | 56% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/34 | 21/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Vrbensky | |||
| Q1 Palan | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 74-62 | 74-62 | |
| Total points | 136 | 136 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 38/63 | 38/63 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 29/38 | 29/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/25 | 12/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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