Yosuke Watanuki upsets Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-6(10) 7-6(3) in the 2nd round in Washington on Wednesday. Watanuki will fight against Ugo Humbert in the 3rd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 27 minutes. This will be his best achievement in this event. In the past, the best he could do was reach the 1st round in 2018 and 2022. Here you can see his previous results at this event.
The Japanese added to his prize money $ 12,180 after winning this match. He has already won $ 26,905 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Japanese will add $ 24,150 to his earnings to get in total $ 51,055 in total.
Highlights Yosuke Watanuki vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime Citi Open – Washington
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:27
At the end of the match, Watanuki scored 91 points vs. the Canadian’s 84.
Watanuki
Yousuke served very well to win 84% of the points (38/45) behind his first serve, and he won 60% points (25/42) on his second serve. The Japanese wasn’t able to conquer any break point to conquer the match only at the tiebreaks.
Auger-Aliassime
On the other side, Felix wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/3). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Watanuki and Auger-Aliassime is 1-0 for Yousuke.
Draw and next match H2H: Yosuke Watanuki vs. Ugo Humbert – stats
Watanuki will square off with Humbert in the 3rd round.
There is no head to head record between Yosuke Watanuki and Ugo Humbert since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Yousuke snatched in the 13th game (7-6() prior to finally winning the set (7-6().
Watanuki failed to serve out the set when leading 7-6( to be broken at 15.
The Japanese dropped 24 points on serve (40-24). On the losing side, the Canadian conceded 8 points on serve (25-8).
Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Eventually, the Japanese won the breaker at 7-3.
Tiebreak
Watanuki won 3 minibreaks in the 6th (3-3), 7th (4-3) and 10th (7-3) point. On the other side, the Canadian won a minibreak in the 4th (3-1) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 2-3, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3
Watanuki was unable to convert any of the 2 conquered break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40) and the 6th game (3-2 30-40). On the other side, Yousuke didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 79 points. The Japanese was the one to win the set after conquering 5 points more than Auger-Aliassime (42-37). Yousuke conceded 9 points on serve (27-9). on the other side of the court, the Canadian conceded 15 points on serve (28-15).
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