ATP Challenger Tour · Quarterfinals · Zhangjiagang
Final score & match stats
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Shimabukuro
🏹 Frontrunner
Simakin
⚙️ Grinder
Matchup analysis
🏹 Frontrunner vs ⚙️ Grinder is historically tight (48% vs 52%, 392 matches). Neither style has a clear edge, so form, surface, and H2H matter most when Sho Shimabukuro plays Ilia Simakin.
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Shimabukuro | Simakin |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 4–6 | 3–5 |
| Avg odds | 2.20 | 2.30 |
| ROI % | -43.0% | -39.8% |
| Units P/L | -4.30u | -3.18u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Prior meetings and scores · 2 career meetings
2
Shimabukuro
0
Simakin
Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months
Simakin has a higher win rate against shared opponents (86% vs Shimabukuro's 71%).
| Opponent | Shimabukuro | Simakin |
|---|---|---|
| Stefanos Sakellaridis | L 62 46 57 | W 36 64 63 |
| Alex Bolt | W 62 67 63 | W 76 36 61 |
| Beibit Zhukayev | W 63 46 76 | W 64 67 75 |
| Petr Bar Biryukov | W 64 75 | W 76 46 75 |
| Yi Zhou | L 36 75 46 | W 75 64 |
| Omar Jasika | W 63 57 76 | W 63 60 |
| Yasutaka Uchiyama | W 63 76 | L 06 46 |
Serve and return comparison · Last 90 days
| Stat | Shimabukuro | Simakin |
|---|---|---|
| Serve | ||
| 1st Serve In % | 61.7% | 61.2% |
| 1st Serve Pts Won % | 78.2% | 70.7% |
| 2nd Serve Pts Won % | 58.1% | 53.8% |
| Aces / Match | 6.3 | 3.6 |
| Double Faults / Match | 1.7 | 2.6 |
| Break Points Saved % | 75.8% | 54.1% |
| Return | ||
| 1st Return Pts Won % | 38.5% | 23.7% |
| 2nd Return Pts Won % | 53.1% | 39.3% |
| BP Converted % | 43.4% | 22.1% |
| Rally | ||
| Winners / Match | 23.7 | 17.9 |
| Unforced Errors / Match | 22.8 | 27.8 |
| Net Pts Won % | 74.7% | 70.8% |
| Total Pts Won % | 57.1% | 47.2% |
| Surface (Hard) | ||
| Hard Win % | 50% | 50% |
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Match summary
Sho Shimabukuro and Ilia Simakin will meet in the Round of 32 at the Renault Busan Open Tennis Championships on April 12, 2026. The match takes place on outdoor hard courts, where Shimabukuro enters as the higher-ranked player at number 110 compared to Simakin's number 219 standing.
Shimabukuro and Simakin have faced each other once before, with Shimabukuro winning that encounter. The two players come from different parts of the tennis world and this will be their second career meeting on the ATP and Challenger circuits combined.
Shimabukuro arrives with a 75% record on hard courts over his recent stretch, though he's dealing with a two-match losing streak and hasn't played in three weeks. Simakin has been more active on tour, playing three matches in the last two weeks and holding a 50% record on hard courts. Simakin is riding a one-match losing streak of his own.
Shimabukuro plays an aggressive big-hitting style that relies on powerful groundstrokes and forcing opponents into uncomfortable positions. Simakin operates as a traditional baseliner who builds points methodically and looks to wear down opponents from the baseline. The matchup pits Shimabukuro's offensive approach against Simakin's grinding consistency on a surface where both players have shown capability.
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