Yosuke Watanuki and Jason Jung will face off in the 1st round of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yosuke Watanuki who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yosuke Watanuki is the pick to win this match.
Yosuke Watanuki -> 1.47
Jason Jung -> 2.53
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Prediction and head to head Yosuke Watanuki vs. Jason Jung
This will be the 3rd time that Yosuke Watanuki and Jason Jung fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Watanuki and Jung (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Watanuki won 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in the Sarasota Challenger back in April 2022.
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. 193, the Japanese will start his run in the Matsuyama Challenger after he played his last match in the Yokohama Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-7(5) 6-3 to O in the final on the 5th of November.
Yousuke has an aggregate 30-21 win-loss record in 2022, 14-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Japanese’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Yokohama Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 166-112 record. He has a positive 98-60 record on hard.
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Watanuki has never competed in this tournament before.
Jason Jung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-25 | 40-23 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-28 | 13-14 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 6-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-25 | 5-12 | 1-4 | 2-6 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-18 | 7-8 | 2-4 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 422, Jung got to the 1st round after defeating Shunsuke Nakagawa 6-1 6-1 and Ji Sung Nam 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Jung had a good straight sets win against Sung Nam (6-3 6-4). During the match Jung scored 67 points vs Sung Nam’s 50. Jason was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Jung blasted 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Jason Jung lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Jung put 79% of his first serves in, winning 74% (34/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 33% (4/12) on the 2nd serve. Jung broke Sung Nam 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Chinese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to conquer 62% of the points he played.
Jung has a compiled 19-24 win-loss record in 2022, 10-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Yusuke KusuharaKusuhara (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Yuichi SugitaSugita (6-75 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Li TuTu – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-3 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jason JungJung – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Ergi KirkinKirkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – John MillmanMillman (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Sho KatayamaKatayama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Benoit PairePaire (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
