Blake Ellis and Shinji Hazawa will face off in the 1st round of the Sydney Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play 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 Blake Ellis who should win in 3 sets.
Blake Ellis -> 1.4
Shinji Hazawa -> 2.68
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Prediction and head to head Blake Ellis vs. Shinji Hazawa
This will be the 2nd time that Blake Ellis and Shinji Hazawa square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Hazawa (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Hazawa won 6-4 6-2 in the semifinal in M15 Nakhon Si Thammarat back in 2023.
Blake Ellis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-10 | 7-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 8-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 49-31 | 41-26 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-29 | 43-25 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-11 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-14 | 16-8 | 0-0 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 435, the Australian will start his run in the Sydney Challenger after he played his last match in the Brisbane 3 Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-1 6-4 to Duckworth in the 2nd round on the 13th of November.
The Australian has an aggregate 15-10 win-loss record in 2025, 7-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Australian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Swan Hill.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 253-181 record. He has a positive 198-152 record on hard.
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See his history.
Shinji Hazawa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28-26 | 26-22 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 14-14 | 14-12 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-15 | 14-13 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-27 | 49-26 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 791, the Japanese reached the 1st
round after beating Ashton Mcleod 3-6 6-4 6-3 and Blaise Bicknell 3-6 7-6(5) 6-4.In the qualifications against Bicknell, Shinji recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-65 6-4).During the match Hazawa scored less points (6) than Bicknell. In fact, the world no. 435 won 117 points vs Bicknell’s. That means that Hazawa was more focused during the important points. Shinji was very aggressive to blast 71 winners.
Talking about serving, Hazawa scored 4 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Shinji Hazawa lost the serve once and he saved 15 break points. Furthermore, Hazawa put 77% of his first serves in, winning 69% (71/103) of the points behind his 1st serve and 39% (12/31) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Bicknell once after converting 33% of his break points (1/3).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Shinji started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 50% of the points he played.
Shinji has a compiled 28-26 win-loss record in 2025, 26-22 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sydney Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Sydney Challenger
- Carl Emil OverbeckEmil Overbeck – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Carl Emil OverbeckEmil Overbeck – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dane SweenySweeny – Christian LangmoLangmo (2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-4 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hayato MatsuokaMatsuoka – Bernard TomicTomic (6-4 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tai SachSach – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (2-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karan SinghSingh – Aryan ShahShah (7-62 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James McCabeMcCabe – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Li TuTu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Marc PolmansPolmans (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blake EllisEllis – Shinji HazawaHazawa (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Takuya KumasakaKumasaka – Alex BoltBolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction