Sho Shimabukuro and Kokoro Isomura will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Kobe Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Sho Shimabukuro who should win in 2 sets.
Sho Shimabukuro -> 1.103
Kokoro Isomura -> 5.55
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Prediction and head to head Sho Shimabukuro vs. Kokoro Isomura
This will be the 2nd time that Sho Shimabukuro and Kokoro Isomura clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Shimabukuro (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they fought against each other, Shimabukuro won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in M25 Tsukuba back in 2023.
Sho Shimabukuro
32 - 22win/loss
145
135
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-23 | 29-19 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-28 | 21-17 | 1-3 | 3-5 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-26 | 19-17 | 7-1 | 9-4 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-25 | 38-20 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-20 | 28-18 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 147, Sho will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Matsuyama Challenger where he lost 7-5 3-6 6-2 to Rocha in the final on the 9th of November.
Shimabukuro has an aggregate 32-22 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Zhangjiagang Challenger where he beat Oliver Crawford in the final 6-3 3-6 7-5 and the Seoul Challenger where he defeated Chak Lam Coleman Wong in the final 6-4 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Sho has an overall 273-168 record. He has a positive 25-19 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2023. See his history.
Kokoro Isomura
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-29 | 32-27 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-25 | 27-18 | 6-4 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-30 | 25-29 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-16 | 7-9 | 17-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-8 | 4-2 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 539, Isomura will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Matsuyama Challenger where he lost 5-7 6-4 6-1 to Rocha in the 1st round on the 3rd
of November.The Japanese has a compiled 34-28 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Isomura’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Luan.
In terms of his career, Kokoro has an overall 128-107 record. He has a positive 8-4 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Igor Ribeiro MarcondesRibeiro Marcondes (6-2 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-71 6-4 7-67) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Kaylan BigunBigun (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Maxim ZhukovZhukov (7-61 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elias YmerYmer – Ryan PenistonPeniston (6-2 6-74 1-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rei SakamotoSakamoto – Max BasingBasing (7-66 6-74 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hynek BartonBarton – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (6-78 6-4 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Renta TokudaTokuda – Ryotaro TaguchiTaguchi (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hyeon ChungChung – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jason JungJung – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Elias YmerYmer – Renta TokudaTokuda (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Hugo GrenierGrenier (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Hyeon ChungChung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Garrett JohnsJohns – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (0-0) – H2H and prediction