Steve Johnson and Yosuke Watanuki will play each other in the 2nd round of the Sarasota Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on ELIZABETH MOORE COURT. 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 Steve Johnson who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Steve Johnson is the pick to win this match.
Steve Johnson -> 1.31
Yosuke Watanuki -> 3.45
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Prediction and head to head Steve Johnson vs. Yosuke Watanuki
There is no head to head record between Steve Johnson and Yosuke Watanuki since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Steve Johnson
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-20 | 15-11 | 2-3 | 2-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-28 | 20-18 | 6-4 | 2-2 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-17 | 8-12 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-11 | 18-7 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 107, Johnson reached the 2nd round after defeating Andrea Collarini 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Johnson had a good straight sets win against Collarini (6-3 6-4). During the match, Johnson scored 71 points vs Collarini’s 54. Johnson was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Johnson scored 8 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Steve Johnson was extremely efficient on serve to win 86% (24/28) of his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Steve broke Collarini 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Johnson has a positive match record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (269-220). 2-1 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Johnson has a compiled 42-39 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Steve has an aggregate 11-9 win-loss record in 2022, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sarasota Challenger
Yosuke Watanuki
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1-4 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 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 |
| 2020 | 11-7 | 2-2 | 0-2 | 9-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 272, the Japanese reached the 2nd round after beating Jason Jung 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Watanuki had a good straight sets win against Jung (6-2 6-2). During the match Watanuki scored 59 points vs Jung’s 34. Yousuke was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Watanuki recorded 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Yosuke Watanuki was pretty effective on serve to win 82% (23/28) of his 1st serve and 53% (9/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Watanuki broke Jung 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Yousuke’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Forli 4 Challenger.
Watanuki has an overall 13-9 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Johnson | Watanuki |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 16 |
| Pts | 71-54 | 59-34 |
| Total Points | 125 | 93 |
| Winners | 24 | 23 |
| %Winners | 34% | 39% |
Both Johnson and Watanuki played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Johnson and Watanuki have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Johnson played 3 games more than Watanuki. Steve scored 24 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Yousuke recorded 23 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Johnson | Watanuki |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 6 |
| 1st in | 28/58 | 28/45 |
| %1st in | 48% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 23/28 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 9/17 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 53% |
Johnson managed to score 8 aces . Watanuki recorded 6 aces . Johnson won 86% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Watanuki won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Johnson | Watanuki |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/7 | 5/6 |
| % Converted | 43% | 83% |
| Conceded | 5 | 2 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 80% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Johnson broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Steve dropped his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Yousuke broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Johnson | |||
| R1 Collarini |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 71-54 | 71-54 | |
| Total points | 125 | 125 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 28/58 | 28/58 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 24/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 17/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Watanuki | |||
| R1 Jung |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 59-34 | 59-34 | |
| Total points | 93 | 93 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 28/45 | 28/45 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 23/28 | 23/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 9/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLLL Tennis Scores in Sarasota Challenger
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (6-74 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Ryan HarrisonHarrison (3-6 6-2 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (6-3 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Rinky HijikataHijikata (7-64 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Alex RybakovRybakov (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Jeff WolfWolf – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-2 6-78 6-3) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Andrew HarrisHarris (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Sumit NagalNagal (4-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Max PurcellPurcell (7-5 7-64) – See score progression
- Jack SockSock – Christian HarrisonHarrison (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Andrea CollariniCollarini (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Tomas Barrios VeraBarrios Vera – Govind NandaNanda (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Jason JungJung (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Andrew HarrisHarris (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Jack SockSock – Christian HarrisonHarrison (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (6-3 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Alex RybakovRybakov (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis KudlaKudla – Michael MmohMmoh (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Jack SockSock (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Jeff WolfWolf (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
