Yoshihito Nishioka and Shinji Hazawa will clash against each other in the 1^st round of the Taipei Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 8:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yoshihito Nishioka who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yoshihito Nishioka is the pick to win this match.
Yoshihito Nishioka -> 1.01
Shinji Hazawa -> 10.25

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Prediction and head to head Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Shinji Hazawa

There is no head to head record between Yoshihito Nishioka and Shinji Hazawa since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Yoshihito Nishioka

Ranked no. 134, the Japanese will start his run in the Taipei Challenger after he played his last match in the Seoul Challenger where he lost 6-0 5-7 7-6(5) to Ferreira Silva in the 2^nd round on the 30^th of October.

Nishioka has an overall 20-22 win-loss record in 2025, 4-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the year was winning the title the Suzhou Challenger where he overcame Harold Mayot in the final 6-4 6-4.

Talking about his overall career, Yoshihito has an overall 443-294 record. He has a positive 63-36 record on indoor hard courts.

Previously in the Taipei Challenger

Yoshihito has never competed in this tournament before.

Shinji Hazawa

Ranked no. 823, Hazawa got to the 1^st round after beating Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-2 6-2 and Leo Vithoontien 5-7 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications against Vithoontien, Hazawa recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-3 6-4). During the match Hazawa scored 110 points vs Vithoontien’s 100. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.

About the serving games, Hazawa scored 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Shinji Hazawa lost the serve 4 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Hazawa put 59% of his first serves in, winning 66% (39/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 51% (21/41) on the 2nd serve. Shinji broke Vithoontien 6 times after converting 46% of his break points (6/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Shinji started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Hazawa has a composed 26-24 win-loss record in 2025, 2-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Taipei Challenger

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• James McCabeMcCabe – Cing-Yang MengMeng (6-7⁵ 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Taro DanielDaniel (2-6 7-6² 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

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