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H2H. Miomir Kecmanovic vs Yosuke Watanuki | Newport Beach Challenger prediction, odds, preview, pick

Newport Beach Challenger. Kecmanovic and Watanuki will square off in the 2nd round of the the Newport Beach Challenger. See the H2H stats, odds, preview and predictions of their next match

Mark Hall

29 January 2020

Prediction and head to head Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Yosuke Watanuki

Miomir Kecmanovic and Yosuke Watanuki will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the the Newport Beach Challenger for the 2^nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on COURT 10. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Miomir Kecmanovic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Miomir Kecmanovic is the pick to win this match.
Miomir Kecmanovic -> 1.30
Yosuke Watanuki -> 3.40

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Miomir Kecmanovic

Ranked no. 54, Kecmanovic will start his run in the Newport Beach Challenger after he played his last match at the Australian Open where he lost 6-4 6-4 7-6(3) to Seppi in the 1^st round the 21^st of January.

Miomir has a 3-2 win-loss record in 2020, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Kecmanovic’s best result of the year was reaching the semi-finals in Doha.

Talking about his overall career, The Serbian has an overall 115-77 record. He has positive 70-39 record on hard.

Last year in the Newport Beach Challenger

Kecmanovic lost in the quarter 2-6 6-4 6-3 to Taylor Harry Fritz.

Yosuke Watanuki

Ranked no. 259, Yousuke got to the 2^nd round after beating Skander Mansouri 6-3 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Yousuke had a good straight sets win against Mansouri (6-3 6-1). During the match Watanuki scored 60 points vs Mansouri’s 42. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about serving, Watanuki blasted 4 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yosuke Watanuki lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Watanuki put 58% of his first serves in, winning 70% (21/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Mansouri 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Watanuki has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 59% of his matches (148-101). 2-1 on hard in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Watanuki has a 71-50 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.

Yousuke has a 2-1 win-loss record in 2020, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Newport Beach Challenger

Watanuki didn’t play in the Newport Beach Challenger in 2019.

Head 2 Head

0Slam
1Main
2Chall
3Minor

0Slam
0Main
4Chall
5Minor

Miomir
Kecmanovic

3:1

Yosuke
Watanuki

3Hard1

375

Win Loss

Kecmanovic

LLWLWLWLWW

Watanuki

LWWLWWWLLW

2024 2023 2022

25 - 30

11 - 10

10-15

Hard

9-8

5-5

I Hard

2-2

6-6

Clay

0-0

4-4

Grass

0-0

Tennis Scores in Newport Beach Challenger

Raymond SarmientoSarmiento – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
Bradley KlahnKlahn – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
Sebastian KordaKorda – Marcos GironGiron (6-4 3-6 7-6⁵) – See score progression
Brayden SchnurSchnur – Maxime CressyCressy (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Emilio GomezGomez (7-5 6-3) – See score progression