Jaume Antoni Munar Clar and Yosuke Watanuki will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Korea Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jaume Antoni Munar Clar who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jaume Antoni Munar Clar is the pick to win this match.
Jaume Antoni Munar Clar -> 1.43
Yosuke Watanuki -> 2.83
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Prediction and head to head Jaume Antoni Munar Clar vs. Yosuke Watanuki
This will be the 2nd time that Jaume Antoni Munar Clar and Yosuke Watanuki play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Watanuki (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Watanuki won 3-6 6-3 6-0 in the 1st round in Winston salem back in 2021.
Jaume Antoni Munar Clar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-32 | 5-9 | 25-17 | 1-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-30 | 1-7 | 26-19 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-29 | 14-10 | 27-12 | 2-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-27 | 1-4 | 36-19 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-17 | 6-7 | 18-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 56, Munar Clar will start his run in Seoul after he played his last match in Metz where he lost 6-2 2-6 7-5 to Rinderknech in the 1st round on the 20th of September.
Munar Clar has an aggregate 40-23 win-loss record in 2022, 12-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Spaniard’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Marbella Challenger and the Perugia Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Munar Clar has an overall 325-210 record. He has a positive 58-47 record on hard.
Previously in Seoul
The Spaniard has never competed in this tournament before.
Yosuke Watanuki
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-9 | 9-7 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 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. 222, the Japanese reached the 1st round after beating John-Patrick Smith 6-3 6-1 and Hiroki Moriya 3-6 7-63 6-2.
In the qualifications against Moriya, Yousuke recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-63 6-2). During the match Watanuki scored 106 points vs Moriya’s 95. Watanuki was exceptionally aggressive to blast 43 winners.
About the serving games, Watanuki scored 15 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Yosuke Watanuki lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Watanuki put 59% of his first serves in, winning 68% (43/63) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (27/43) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Moriya 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Watanuki’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Forli 4 Challenger.
The Japanese has an aggregate 26-19 win-loss record in 2022, 10-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Nicolas JarryJarry – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-66 6-3) – See score progression
- Yunseong ChungChung – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (3-6 7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Ryan PenistonPeniston (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Emilio GomezGomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Daniel EvansEvans (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Borna CoricCoric – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Marcos GironGiron (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Yunseong ChungChung (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
