Yuta Shimizu and Kaichi Uchida will play each other in the 2nd round of the Taipei Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yuta Shimizu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yuta Shimizu is the pick to win this match.
Yuta Shimizu -> 1.61
Kaichi Uchida -> 2.15
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Prediction and head to head Yuta Shimizu vs. Kaichi Uchida
This will be the 2nd time that Yuta Shimizu and Kaichi Uchida square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Uchida (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Uchida won 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in the Sydney Challenger back in 2023.
Yuta Shimizu
20 - 22win/loss
356
181
LWLLWLWLWW | 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. 255, the Japanese reached the 2nd round after beating Marek Gengel 6-0 7-6(8).
In the 1st round, Shimizu had a good straight sets win against Gengel (6-0 7-68). During the match, Shimizu scored 74 points vs Gengel’s 61. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Regarding the service games, Shimizu bagged 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Yuta Shimizu lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Shimizu put 69% of his first serves in, winning 80% (39/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 32% (7/22) on the 2nd serve. Yuta broke Gengel 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Shimizu has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (277-166). 3-2 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Shimizu has an overall 22-15 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Shimizu has a composed 20-22 win-loss record in 2025, 3-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Taipei Challenger
Kaichi Uchida
39 - 28win/loss
252
147
LWWWWLWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-31 | 39-21 | 0-3 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2024 | 42-30 | 18-22 | 16-6 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-33 | 4-18 | 3-10 | 9-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-34 | 24-23 | 8-5 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-26 | 27-13 | 6-11 | 1-2 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 328, the Japanese got to the 2nd round after defeating Mukund Sasikumar 7-6(5) 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Kumar Mukund (7-65 6-2). During the match Uchida scored 78 points vs Kumar Mukund’s 63. Kaichi was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Uchida struck 5 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Kaichi Uchida was quite efficient on serve to win 81% (30/37) of his 1st serve and 67% (18/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Kumar Mukund twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Kaichi’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Nakhon Pathom,M25 Sapporo,M25 Takasaki and M25 Perth.
The Japanese has an overall 39-28 win-loss record in 2025, 3-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Taipei Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Shimizu | Uchida |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 21 |
| Pts | 74-61 | 78-63 |
| Total Points | 135 | 141 |
| Winners | 39 | 30 |
| %Winners | 53% | 38% |
Both Shimizu and Uchida played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Shimizu and Uchida have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Shimizu played 2 games less than Uchida. The Japanese scored 39 winners (53% of the total points). On the other side, Kaichi bagged 30 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Shimizu | Uchida |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 5 |
| 1st in | 49/71 | 37/64 |
| %1st in | 69% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 39/49 | 30/37 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 7/22 | 18/27 |
| %2nd pts | 32% | 67% |
Shimizu made 5 aces . Uchida bagged 5 aces . Shimizu won 80% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 32% of the points. On the other side, Uchida won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Shimizu | Uchida |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 2 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 2/5 |
| % Converted | 67% | 40% |
| Conceded | 5 | 1 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 80% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Shimizu lost his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Uchida broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. The Japanese was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Shimizu | |||
| R1 Gengel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 7-68 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 74-61 | 74-61 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 53% | 53% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 49/71 | 49/71 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 39/49 | 39/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/22 | 7/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 32% | 32% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Uchida | |||
| R1 Kumar Mukund |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 78-63 | 78-63 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 37/64 | 37/64 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 30/37 | 30/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/27 | 18/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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