Shunsuke Nakagawa and Sanhui Shin will face off in the 1st round of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sanhui Shin who should win in 3 sets.
Sanhui Shin -> 1.46
Shunsuke Nakagawa -> 2.49
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Prediction and head to head Shunsuke Nakagawa vs. Sanhui Shin
This will be the 2nd time that Shunsuke Nakagawa and Sanhui Shin clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Shin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Shin won 6-1 3-6 6-1 in the 2nd round in M15 Yanagawa back in 2023.
Shunsuke Nakagawa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-18 | 27-18 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 22-12 | 19-10 | 2-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 13-10 | 13-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 3-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, the Japanese got to the 1st round after beating Yuta Kawahashi 6-3 6-1 and Yuta Kikuchi 6-3 7-5.
In the qualifications, Shunsuke had a good straight sets win against Kikuchi (6-3 7-5). During the match, Nakagawa scored 83 points vs Kikuchi’s 70. Shunsuke was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Nakagawa managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Shunsuke Nakagawa lost the serve 3 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Nakagawa put 67% of his first serves in, winning 52% (25/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Kikuchi 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Shunsuke started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 57% of the points he played.
Nakagawa has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 61% of his matches (67-43). 26-16 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Nakagawa has an aggregate64-40 win-loss record in the last 5 years on hard.
The Japanese has a composed 26-16 win-loss record in 2025, 26-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Sanhui Shin
51 - 25win/loss
374
366
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51-27 | 37-20 | 4-1 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 27-22 | 19-15 | 1-2 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-20 | 35-16 | 8-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-8 | 16-7 | 5-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 372, Shin will start his run in the Matsuyama Challenger after he played his last match in the Seoul Challenger where he lost 7-6(0) 6-0 to Zhou in the 1st round on the 28th of October.
The Korean has an overall 51-25 win-loss record in 2025, 37-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Shin’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Anning,M15 Andong,M25 Changwon and M15 Wuning.
In terms of his career, Shin has an overall 180-99 record. He has a positive 134-78 record on hard.
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Matsuyama Challenger
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Sho KatayamaKatayama (6-4 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Garrett JohnsJohns – Maximus JonesJones (6-4 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Hynek BartonBarton (7-67 1-6 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Henrique RochaRocha – Kokoro IsomuraIsomura (5-7 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sanhui ShinShin – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Moerani BouzigeBouzige – Renta TokudaTokuda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi – Hugo GrenierGrenier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Takuya KumasakaKumasaka – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max BasingBasing – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (0-0) – H2H and prediction