Fajing Sun and Shintaro Imai have met 1 time since 2019; Fajing Sun leads 1–0. Their most recent meeting: Fajing Sun won at Ningbo (2019).
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Sun
🏹 Frontrunner
Imai
🪃 Counterpuncher
Matchup analysis
The 🏹 Frontrunner archetype wins about 55% vs 🪃 Counterpuncher across 464 matches in our dataset — a stylistic lean toward Fajing Sun.
Frontrunner players often use fast starts and aggressive openers to pressure the counterpuncher's elite bp conversion.
1 career meeting, newest first
Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days
| Outcome | Sun | Imai | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome | Fajing Sun | Shintaro Imai | ||
| 1 or more | 91% | 19/21 | 90% | 9/10 |
| 3 or more | 71% | 15/21 | 80% | 8/10 |
| 5 or more | 48% | 10/21 | 50% | 5/10 |
| 10 or more | 14% | 3/21 | 10% | 1/10 |
| 15 or more | 5% | 1/21 | 0% | 0/10 |
| 20 or more | 0% | 0/21 | 0% | 0/10 |
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Sun | Imai |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 13–7 | 4–1 |
| Avg odds | 2.03 | 1.31 |
| ROI % | +13.0% | +7.8% |
| Units P/L | +2.60u | +0.39u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months
Across 1 shared opponent, both Sun and Imai posted a 0% win rate.
| Opponent | Sun | Imai |
|---|---|---|
| Chase Ferguson | L 46 64 26 | L 36 64 36 |
Last five matches per player
Andre Ilagan
Texas Spine and Joint Men's Championship · Round of 32
Jun 3
Jay Friend
UAMS Health Little Rock Open · Round of 16
May 29
Dakotah Bobo
UAMS Health Little Rock Open · Round of 32
May 26
Jesper de Jong
Roland Garros · 1st Round Qualifying
May 24
Rio Noguchi
Wuxi Open · Round of 16
May 7
Alex Bolt
Wuxi Open · Round of 32
May 6
Coleman Wong
Jiangxi Open · Semifinals
May 2
Mark Lajal
Jiangxi Open · Quarterfinals
May 1
Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong
Futures 2026 ·
Jun 18
Tianhui Zhang
Futures 2026 ·
Jun 16
Uisung Park
Futures 2026 ·
Jun 9
Ye Chen
Futures 2026 ·
May 30
Kai-I Wang
Futures 2026 ·
May 27
Yan Cheng Chen
M15 Luan · Semifinals
May 25
Fanming Meng
M15 Luan · Round of 16
May 25
Lachlan Mcfadzean
M15 Luan · Quarterfinals
May 25
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 28–62 matches
| Metric | Sun | Imai |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 53% | 64% |
| Sets won | 52% | 65% |
| Games won | 52% | 53% |
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Sun | Imai |
|---|---|---|
| ATP Challenger Tour | 1 | 0 |
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Sun | Imai |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 1 | 0 |
