Jesper De Jong and Yosuke Watanuki will face off in the 1st round of the Forli 4 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on GENCOM. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jesper De Jong who should win in 3 sets.
Jesper De Jong -> 1.76
Yosuke Watanuki -> 2.02
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Prediction and head to head Jesper De Jong vs. Yosuke Watanuki
There is no head to head record
between Jesper De Jong and Yosuke Watanuki since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.Jesper De Jong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-31 | 8-7 | 20-13 | 5-6 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 48-25 | 12-5 | 33-15 | 2-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-23 | 19-4 | 30-14 | 0-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-28 | 12-7 | 10-13 | 2-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-29 | 2-6 | 27-18 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 200 (career-high), De Jong will start his run in the Forli 4 Challenger after he played his last match in Rotterdam where he lost 7-6(5) 6-0
to Lehecka in the qualifications on the 5th of February.Jesper has a compiled 5-3 win-loss record in 2022, 0-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
The Dutch’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Traralgon Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Dutch has an overall 134-74 record. He has a positive 14-12 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Forli 4 Challenger
The Dutch has never competed in this tournament before.
Yosuke Watanuki
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31-24 | 18-18 | 0-0 | 6-1 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 11-11 | 9-8 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-23 | 29-12 | 7-5 | 1-2 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-22 | 19-11 | 6-4 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-17 | 8-9 | 2-3 | 6-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 291, Yousuke reached the 1st round after beating Gianmarco Ferrari 7-64 6-3 and Francesco Maestrelli 6-3 2-6 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Japanese defeated Maestrelli (6-3 2-6 6-4). During the match Watanuki scored 91 points vs Maestrelli’s 83. Watanuki was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Watanuki struck 10 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Yosuke Watanuki was pretty efficient on serve to win 82% (32/39) of his 1st serve and 56% (19/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Japanese broke Maestrelli 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Yousuke started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Yousuke has a composed 8-5 win-loss record in 2022, 6-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Forli 4 Challenger
- Brayden SchnurSchnur – Matteo GiganteGigante (6-4 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (6-75 6-4 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Joao DominguesDomingues (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Robin HaaseHaase – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gastao EliasElias – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Jesper De JongDe Jong (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin HassanHassan – Ruben BemelmansBemelmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evan FurnessFurness – Antoine HoangHoang (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jack DraperDraper – Mirza BasicBasic (0-0) – H2H and prediction