Yuta Shimizu and Yusuke Kusuhara will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yuta Shimizu who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yuta Shimizu is the pick to win this match.
Yuta Shimizu -> 1.172
Yusuke Kusuhara -> 4.3

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Prediction and head to head Yuta Shimizu vs. Yusuke Kusuhara

There is no head to head record between Yuta Shimizu and Yusuke Kusuhara since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Yuta Shimizu

Ranked no. 246, Shimizu reached the 2^nd round after defeating Yusuke Takahashi 6-2 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Yuta had a good straight sets win against Takahashi (6-2 6-2). During the match, Shimizu scored 58 points vs Takahashi’s 40. Shimizu was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about the service games, Shimizu scored 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Yuta Shimizu was very efficient on serve to win 80% (24/30) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Takahashi 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Shimizu has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (278-168). 17-17 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Shimizu has a compiled 220-131 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

The Japanese has a composed 21-24 win-loss record in 2025, 17-17 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokohama Challenger

Yusuke Kusuhara

Ranked no. 744, Kusuhara got to the 2^nd round after defeating Gai Ando 6-0 6-1, Koki Matsuda 6-7(2) 6-1 6-2 and Kokoro Isomura 7-5 6-3.

In the 1^st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Isomura (7-5 6-3). During the match Kusuhara scored 73 points vs Isomura’s 62. The Japanese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about serving, Kusuhara struck 11 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Yusuke Kusuhara was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 73% (35/48) of his 1st serve and 52% (15/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Yusuke broke Isomura 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Kusuhara’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Harmon and M15 Tanagura.

The Japanese has a compiled 39-16 win-loss record in 2025, 39-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Yokohama Challenger

The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Shimizu	Kusuhara
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	7
Tot Games	16	62
Pts	58-40	215-153
Total Points	98	368
Winners	24	91
%Winners	41%	42%

Shimizu played 1 match while Kusuhara competed in 3 matches. Kusuhara started his run from the qualifications while Shimizu had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Yusuke Kusuhara dropped 1 set while Yuta Shimizu hasn’t lost a set so far. Shimizu has played 5 set(s) less than Kusuhara (2 vs 7). Therefore, Shimizu played 46 games less than Kusuhara. The Japanese scored 24 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese made 91 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Shimizu	Kusuhara
Aces	2	20
Avg per match	2	6.7
1st in	30/46	124/201
%1st in	65%	62%
1st pts	24/30	91/124
%1st pts	80%	73%
2nd pts	10/16	49/77
%2nd pts	63%	64%

Shimizu made 2 aces . Kusuhara managed to score 20 aces (6.7 per match). Shimizu won 80% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Kusuhara won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Shimizu	Kusuhara
Won	4	13
Converted	4/8	13/21
% Converted	50%	62%
Conceded	3	11
Saved	3	9
% Saved	100%	82%
Times Broken	0	2

The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Yuta pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. Yusuke broke his opponents 13 times with a 62% conversion rate. Yusuke conceded his serve twice and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded.

Shimizu
	R1 Takahashi	Total
Score	6-2 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	58-40	58-40
Total points	98	98
Winners	24	24
%Winners	41%	41%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	30/46	30/46
% 1st in	65%	65%
1st pts	24/30	24/30
% 1st pts	80%	80%
2nd pts	10/16	10/16
% 2nd pts	63%	63%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/8	4/8
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3/3	3
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Kusuhara
	Q1 Ando	Q3 Matsuda	R1 Isomura	Total
Score	6-0 6-1	6-72 6-1 6-2	7-5 6-3
Tot Set	2	3	2	7
Tot Games	13	28	21	62
pts	50-18	92-73	73-62	215-153
Total points	68	165	135	368
Winners	16	40	35	91
%Winners	32%	43%	48%	42%
SERVE
Aces	4	5	11	20
Double Faults	1	2	2	5
1st in	20/36	56/88	48/77	124/201
% 1st in	56%	64%	62%	62%
1st pts	16/20	40/56	35/48	91/124
% 1st pts	80%	71%	73%	73%
2nd pts	12/16	22/32	15/29	49/77
% 2nd pts	75%	69%	52%	64%
Breaks
Won	5	5	3	13
Converted	5/6	5/8	3/7	13/21
Converted %	83%	63%	43%	62%
Conceded	0	5	6	11
Saved	0/0	4/5	5/6	9
Saved %	–	80%	83%	163%
Times Broken	0	1	1	2

Tennis Scores in Yokohama Challenger

• Neil OberleitnerOberleitner – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Igor Ribeiro MarcondesRibeiro Marcondes – Oliver CrawfordCrawford (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Ryotaro TaguchiTaguchi – Maximus JonesJones (7-6³ 6-2) – See score progression
• Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi – Max BasingBasing (2-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Jumpei YamasakiYamasaki (6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Kei NishikoriNishikori – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (4-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Kaylan BigunBigun – Elias YmerYmer (3-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Yusuke KusuharaKusuhara – Kokoro IsomuraIsomura (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Michael VrbenskyVrbensky – Woobin ShinShin (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Hyeon ChungChung (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Rei SakamotoSakamoto – Kasidit SamrejSamrej (6-4 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Sanhui ShinShin – Lennon Roark JonesRoark Jones (3-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Akira SantillanSantillan – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (6-4 7-6¹¹) – See score progression
• Maxim ZhukovZhukov – Ryo TabataTabata (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-2 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Kei NishikoriNishikori – Sanhui ShinShin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Akira SantillanSantillan – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Igor Ribeiro MarcondesRibeiro Marcondes – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yuta ShimizuShimizu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi – Neil OberleitnerOberleitner (1-0) – H2H and prediction