Yuta Shimizu and Masamichi Imamura will play each other in the 1st round of the Seoul Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 13. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yuta Shimizu who should win in 2 sets.
Yuta Shimizu -> 1.28
Masamichi Imamura -> 3.44
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Prediction and head to head Yuta Shimizu vs. Masamichi Imamura
This will be the 4th time that Yuta Shimizu and Masamichi Imamura fight against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Shimizu (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Shimizu won 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in the Brisbane 1 Challenger back in January 2025.
Yuta Shimizu
18 - 21win/loss
246
181
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21-25 | 17-18 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-29 | 35-25 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-24 | 35-23 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-23 | 36-21 | 7-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-12 | 12-8 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 241, the Japanese will start his run in the Seoul Challenger after he played his last match in the Suzhou Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-2 to Mayot in the quarter on the 24th of October.
Shimizu has an overall 18-21 win-loss record in 2025, 15-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 275-165 record. He has a positive 218-130 record on hard.
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
Masamichi Imamura
22 - 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. 557, the Japanese reached the 1st round after beating Kaito Uesugi 6-3 6-3 and Michael Vrbensky 6-4 7-6(3).
In the qualifications, Masamichi had a good straight sets win against Vrbensky (6-4 7-63). During the match Imamura scored 78 points vs Vrbensky’s 66. Masamichi was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Imamura scored 2 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Masamichi Imamura lost the serve 3 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Imamura put 72% of his first serves in, winning 63% (32/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the 2nd serve. Masamichi broke Vrbensky 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Masamichi started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 55% of the points he played.
The Japanese’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Taipei and M25 Perth.
Masamichi has a compiled 22-28 win-loss record in 2025, 22-26 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Seoul Challenger
- Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Hyeon ChungChung (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – James DuckworthDuckworth (1-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Omar JasikaJasika (6-3 5-7 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Henrique RochaRocha (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Garrett JohnsJohns (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Renta TokudaTokuda – Elias YmerYmer (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Uisung ParkPark – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sanhui ShinShin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Woobin ShinShin – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (0-0) – H2H and prediction