Gregoire Barrere and Yosuke Watanuki will square off in the qualifications of the Open Parc for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 10:30 am on COURT CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gregoire Barrere who should win in 3 sets.
Gregoire Barrere -> 1.666
Yosuke Watanuki -> 2.21
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Prediction and head to head Gregoire Barrere vs. Yosuke Watanuki
This will be the 2nd time that Gregoire Barrere and Yosuke Watanuki square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Watanuki (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Watanuki won 7-5 6-3 in the quarter in the Forli 4 Challenger back in February 2022.
Gregoire Barrere
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10-17 | 4-3 | 4-8 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-32 | 1-4 | 16-12 | 11-14 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-31 | 8-12 | 5-7 | 17-8 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-29 | 10-7 | 8-10 | 25-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-23 | 7-4 | 3-6 | 11-10 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 210, Barrere reached the qualifications after beating Steven Diez 4-6 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications against Diez, Barrere recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-1 6-4). During the match, Barrere scored 109 points vs Diez’s 94. Gregoire was very aggressive to blast 48 winners.
Regarding the service games, Barrere scored 9 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Gregoire Barrere lost the serve once and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Barrere put 73% of his first serves in, winning 73% (48/66) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (12/24) on the 2nd serve. Barrere broke Diez 3 times after converting 19% of his break points (3/16).
Barrere has a good match record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (356-248). 5-5 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Barrere has an overall 103-73 record in the last years on clay.
The French player best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Quimper Challenger and the Aix En Provence Challenger.
Barrere has an aggregate 14-13 win-loss record in 2022, 5-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Lyon
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. 260, the Japanese got to the qualifications after defeating Carlos Taberner 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Watanuki had a good straight sets win against Taberner (6-3 6-4). During the match Watanuki scored 74 points vs Taberner’s 63. Yousuke was exceptionally aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Watanuki made 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Yosuke Watanuki lost the serve once and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Watanuki put 65% of his first serves in, winning 78% (40/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 29% (8/28) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Taberner 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Yousuke’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Forli 4 Challenger.
Watanuki has an overall 16-11 win-loss record in 2022, 4-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Lyon
Yousuke has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Barrere | Watanuki |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 27 | 19 |
| Pts | 109-94 | 74-63 |
| Total Points | 203 | 137 |
| Winners | 48 | 40 |
| %Winners | 44% | 54% |
Both Barrere and Watanuki played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Gregoire Barrere conceded 1 set while Yosuke Watanuki hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Barrere has played 1 set more than Watanuki (3 vs 2). Therefore, Barrere played 8 games more than Watanuki. The French player scored 48 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Watanuki made 40 winners (54%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Barrere | Watanuki |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 4 |
| 1st in | 66/90 | 51/79 |
| %1st in | 73% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 48/66 | 40/51 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 12/24 | 8/28 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 29% |
Barrere fired 9 aces . Watanuki blasted 4 aces . Barrere won 73% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Watanuki won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 29% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Barrere | Watanuki |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/16 | 3/7 |
| % Converted | 19% | 43% |
| Conceded | 8 | 11 |
| Saved | 7 | 10 |
| % Saved | 88% | 91% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Barrere broke his opponent 3 times with a 19% conversion rate. Barrere conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve once and he saved 91% of the break points that he conceded.
| Barrere | |||
| Q1 Diez | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 109-94 | 109-94 | |
| Total points | 203 | 203 | |
| Winners | 48 | 48 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 66/90 | 66/90 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 48/66 | 48/66 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/24 | 12/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/16 | 3/16 | |
| Converted % | 19% | 19% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Watanuki | |||
| Q1 Taberner | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 74-63 | 74-63 | |
| Total points | 137 | 137 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 54% | 54% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 51/79 | 51/79 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 40/51 | 40/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/28 | 8/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 29% | 29% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 10/11 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 91% | 91% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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