Sho Shimabukuro

Sho Shimabukuro (島袋 将, Shimabukuro Shō, born 30 July 1997) is a Japanese professional tennis player. Shimabukuro has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 87 achieved on 24 August 2026 and a doubles ranking of No. 376 achieved on 16 September 2024. He is currently the No. 1 Japanese player.

Shimabukuro represents Japan at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 1–0.

Career

2023-25: Challenger titles, Major & top 150 debuts Following his first two career Challengers titles, one in January in Nonthaburi, defeating Arthur Cazaux and in May 2023 in Tunis, Shimabukuro reached the top 200 at world No. 178 on 22 May 2023. He climbed another 10 positions to world No. 162, one week later, on 26 June 2023.

In August 2023, Shimabukuro entered the ATP 500 tournament in Washington as a lucky loser and won his first career ATP tour level match defeating Lloyd Harris but lost to Christopher Eubanks. Shimabukuro also qualified for the main draw on his debut at the 2023 US Open. He qualified for the 2023 Astana Open and defeated Roberto Carballés Baena, his second career ATP tour win.

Shimabukuro received a wildcard for the main draw of the ATP 500 2023 Japan Open, and for the qualifying draw at the same tournament in 2025 where he qualified and upset fifth seed Tomáš Macháč for the biggest win of his career and only his fifth ATP win.

2026: Masters & top 100 debuts, Japanese No. 1 At the 2026 Abierto Mexicano Telcel Shimabukoro qualified for the main draw and defeated Adrian Mannarino. Ranked at a career-high of No. 113, as the No. 1 Japanese player, Shimabukoro qualified for his first Masters main draw at the 2026 BNP Paribas Open.

Ranked No. 104, Shimabukoro also qualified for the main draw at the 2026 BOSS Open and defeated Quentin Halys and Nick Kyrgios to reach his first ATP quarterfinal and also record his first two grass court wins. As a result he reached the top 100 in the singles rankings on 15 June 2026. A week later he moved to a new career-high singles ranking of No. 89.

Performance timeline

Singles

Current through the 2026 BNP Paribas Open.

ATP Challenger Tour finals

Singles: 9 (5 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Finals by surfaceHard (4–4)Clay (1–0)

ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Finals by surfaceHard (3–3)Clay (–)

Doubles: 7 (3 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Finals by surfaceHard (3–4)Clay (–)