Miomir Kecmanovic and Yosuke Watanuki will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the the Newport Beach Challenger for the 2nd 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 1st round the 21st 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 2nd round after beating Skander Mansouri 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st 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
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LWLLL Tennis Scores in Newport Beach Challenger
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- 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
Upcoming matches
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- Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Steve JohnsonJohnson (0-1) – See H2H details
- Jc AragoneAragone – Andreas SeppiSeppi (0-0) – See H2H details
- Brayden SchnurSchnur – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (0-1) – See H2H details
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Jason JungJung (0-2) – See H2H details
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (0-0) – See H2H details
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Agustin VelottiVelotti (0-1) – See H2H details
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-1) – See H2H details
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-1) – See H2H details
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Bradley KlahnKlahn (0-0) – See H2H details
