Ji Sung Nam and Yosuke Watanuki will play each other in the quarter of the Kobe Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 12:00 pm on COURT F.
Ji Sung Nam: results and record
Ranked no. 259, Sung Nam got to the quarter after defeating Ben Patael 6-2 6-4 and Yuki Mochizuki 6-3 1-6 6-1.
Ji’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Columbus Challenger.
The Korean has a 23-15 win-loss record in 2019, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Kobe Challenger
Sung Nam lost in the 1st round 6-74 7-69 6-2 to Nam Hoang Ly.
Yosuke Watanuki: results and record
Ranked no. 302, Watanuki got to the quarter after beating Kazuki Nishiwaki 6-3 6-4 and Yan Bai 6-3 6-1.
The Japanese has a 18-21 win-loss record in 2019, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Kobe Challenger
The Japanese lost in the final 3-6 7-5 6-3 to Tatsuma Ito.
Kobe Challenger Live score and result Ji Sung Nam vs. Yosuke Watanuki
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Prediction and head to head Ji Sung Nam vs. Yosuke Watanuki
This will be the 2nd time that Ji Sung Nam and Yosuke Watanuki face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Watanuki (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Watanuki won 7-5 6-2 in the qualifications in the Seoul Challenger back in 2018.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yosuke Watanuki who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yosuke Watanuki is the pick to win this match.
Yosuke Watanuki -> 1.36
Ji Sung Nam -> 3.00
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Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in
- Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven – Luke SavilleSaville (7-62 7-68) – See score progression
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (6-3 1-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Go SoedaSoeda – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Go SoedaSoeda – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Shintaro ImaiImai – Renta TokudaTokuda (3-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Go SoedaSoeda – Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven (0-0) – See H2H details
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Shintaro ImaiImai (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Yuichi SugitaSugita (1-0) – See H2H details