Tung-Lin Wu and Yosuke Watanuki will square off in the 2nd round of the Puerto Vallarta Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 5:30 pm on CANCHA LA AFICION. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yosuke Watanuki who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yosuke Watanuki is the pick to win this match.
Yosuke Watanuki -> 1.47
Tung-Lin Wu -> 2.68
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Prediction and head to head Tung-Lin Wu vs. Yosuke Watanuki
This will be the 3rd time that Tung-Lin Wu and Yosuke Watanuki fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Watanuki (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Watanuki won 6-7(5) 6-2 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Fergana Challenger back in 2018.
Tung-Lin Wu
Ranked no. 266, Tung-Lin got to the 2nd round after defeating Liam Draxl 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Tung-Lin had a good straight sets win against Draxl (6-3 6-1). During the match, Wu scored 63 points vs Draxl’s 40. Tung-Lin was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Wu made 6 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Tung-Lin Wu was very efficient on serve to win 81% (29/36) of his 1st serve and 56% (5/9) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Chinese broke Draxl 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Wu has a winning match record in the last 6 years having won 56% of his matches (151-121). 10-9 on hard in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Wu has a composed109-77 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
Wu’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Istanbul 2 Challenger.
The Chinese has an aggregate 19-25 win-loss record in 2021, 10-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Puerto Vallarta Challenger
The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.
Yosuke Watanuki
Ranked no. 278, the Japanese reached the 2nd round after defeating Jose Statham 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Watanuki had a good straight sets win against Statham (6-3 6-2). During the match Watanuki scored 56 points vs Statham’s 38. Watanuki was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Watanuki fired 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Yosuke Watanuki was very efficient on serve to win 83% (25/30) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Yousuke broke Statham 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Yousuke’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Champaign Challenger.
The Japanese has a compiled 16-16 win-loss record in 2021, 6-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Wu | Watanuki |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 17 |
| Pts | 63-40 | 56-38 |
| Total Points | 103 | 94 |
| Winners | 29 | 25 |
| %Winners | 46% | 45% |
Both Wu and Watanuki played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Wu and Watanuki have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Wu played 1 game less than Watanuki. Wu scored 29 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Watanuki made 25 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Wu | Watanuki |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 7 |
| 1st in | 36/45 | 30/49 |
| %1st in | 80% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 29/36 | 25/30 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 5/9 | 12/19 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 63% |
Wu scored 6 aces . Watanuki managed to score 7 aces . Wu won 81% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Watanuki won 83% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Wu | Watanuki |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/10 | 3/4 |
| % Converted | 40% | 75% |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | NAN% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The Chinese broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Chinese had a solid display on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. Yousuke broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Japanese was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Wu | |||
| R1 Draxl |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 63-40 | 63-40 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 36/45 | 36/45 | |
| % 1st in | 80% | 80% | |
| 1st pts | 29/36 | 29/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Watanuki | |||
| R1 Statham |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 56-38 | 56-38 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 30/49 | 30/49 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 25/30 | 25/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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