Yosuke Watanuki and Tatsuma Ito will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Yokohama Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:30 am on COURT 2. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yosuke Watanuki is the pick to win this match.
Yosuke Watanuki -> 1.27
Tatsuma Ito -> 3.62
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Prediction and head to head Yosuke Watanuki vs. Tatsuma Ito
This will be the 4th time that Yosuke Watanuki and Tatsuma Ito clash against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Ito (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Ito won 3-6 7-5 6-3 in the final in the Kobe Challenger back in 2018.
Yosuke Watanuki
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | 11-7 | 2-2 | 0-2 | 9-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 227, Watanuki got to the 2nd round after beating Naoki Nakagawa 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Yousuke had a good straight sets win against Nakagawa (6-4 6-4). During the match, Watanuki scored 69 points vs Nakagawa’s 55. Watanuki was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Watanuki struck 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Yosuke Watanuki was extremely effective on serve to win 92% (24/26) of his 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Nakagawa 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
Watanuki has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 59% of his matches (163-111). 11-9 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Watanuki has a compiled95-59 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.
The Japanese’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Forli 4 Challenger.
The Japanese has an overall 27-20 win-loss record in 2022, 11-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokohama Challenger
Tatsuma Ito
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4-9 | 4-5 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-18 | 14-14 | 10-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-8 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-23 | 6-12 | 1-3 | 2-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-6 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 617, the Japanese reached the 2nd round after beating Nam Hoang Ly 4-6 6-4 6-0.
In the 1st round against Hoang Ly, Tatsuma recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-0). During the match Ito scored 87 points vs Hoang Ly’s 62. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Ito bagged 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Tatsuma Ito lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Ito put 59% of his first serves in, winning 78% (36/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (16/32) on the 2nd serve. Ito broke Hoang Ly 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).
The Japanese’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Sapporo.
Ito has a composed 11-6 win-loss record in 2022, 11-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Watanuki | Ito |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 26 |
| Pts | 69-55 | 87-62 |
| Total Points | 124 | 149 |
| Winners | 24 | 36 |
| %Winners | 35% | 41% |
Both Watanuki and Ito played 1 match. At the moment, Tatsuma Ito surrendered 1 set while Yosuke Watanuki hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Watanuki has played 1 set(s) less than Ito (2 vs 3). Therefore, Watanuki played 6 games less than Ito. Watanuki scored 24 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese made 36 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Watanuki | Ito |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 7 |
| 1st in | 26/51 | 46/78 |
| %1st in | 51% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 24/26 | 36/46 |
| %1st pts | 92% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 14/25 | 16/32 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 50% |
Watanuki made 10 aces . Ito struck 7 aces . Watanuki won 92% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Ito won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Watanuki | Ito |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 6 |
| Converted | 3/11 | 6/7 |
| % Converted | 27% | 86% |
| Conceded | 1 | 8 |
| Saved | 0 | 5 |
| % Saved | 0% | 63% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Watanuki broke his opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. Watanuki surrendered his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded.
| Watanuki | |||
| R1 Nakagawa |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 69-55 | 69-55 | |
| Total points | 124 | 124 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 26/51 | 26/51 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 24/26 | 24/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 92% | 92% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/25 | 14/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 3/11 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Ito | |||
| R1 Hoang Ly |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 87-62 | 87-62 | |
| Total points | 149 | 149 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 46/78 | 46/78 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 36/46 | 36/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/32 | 16/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/7 | 6/7 | |
| Converted % | 86% | 86% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 5/8 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 63% | 63% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWWLLLLWL Tennis Scores in Yokohama Challenger
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-3 6-75 6-1) – See score progression
- Rimpei KawakamiKawakami – Tomoya FujiwaraFujiwara (6-76 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- John MillmanMillman – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Jonathan MridhaMridha (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (7-67 0-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (3-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Ryota TanumaTanuma (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Yunseong ChungChung – Masamichi ImamuraImamura (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Tatsuma ItoIto – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (4-6 6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Ergi KirkinKirkin – Shinji HazawaHazawa (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Yuichi SugitaSugita (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Ryota TanumaTanuma (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Jonathan MridhaMridha (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (7-6(7) 0-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-3 6-7(5) 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – John MillmanMillman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Ergi KirkinKirkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Kaichi UchidaUchida (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Tatsuma ItoIto (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Jason JungJung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rimpei KawakamiKawakami – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
