Yosuke Watanuki and Yunseong Chung will play each other in the 1st round of the Kobe Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT B. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yosuke Watanuki who should win in 2 sets.
Yosuke Watanuki -> 1.36
Yunseong Chung -> 2.94
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Prediction and head to head Yosuke Watanuki vs. Yunseong Chung
This will be the 4th time that Yosuke Watanuki and Yunseong Chung square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Watanuki (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they fought against each other, Watanuki won 7-5 6-7(2) 5-3 ret. in the 1st round in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger back in September 2022.
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. 195, the Japanese will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Matsuyama Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-4 to Jung in the 1st round on the 8th of November.
Yousuke has a compiled 30-22 win-loss record in 2022, 10-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Yousuke’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Yokohama Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 166-113 record. He has a positive 47-20 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2019. See his history.
Yunseong Chung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18-10 | 18-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 14-17 | 14-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-22 | 20-16 | 5-4 | 3-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-25 | 23-17 | 7-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-15 | 21-10 | 5-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 363, the Korean reached the 1st round after defeating Duckhee Lee 6-2 6-0 and Yuta Shimizu 6-2 7-63.
In the qualifications, Chung had a good straight sets win against Shimizu (6-2 7-63). During the match Chung scored 76 points vs Shimizu’s 58. Yunseong was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Chung made 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Yunseong Chung was quite effective on serve to win 78% (35/45) of his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Chung broke Shimizu twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Yunseong started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 60% of the points he played.
The Korean’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Monastir.
The Korean has an overall 32-23 win-loss record in 2022, 4-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Dane SweenySweeny (6-3 1-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (6-3 6-77 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- John MillmanMillman – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (6-3 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jason JungJung – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Shinji HazawaHazawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Colin SinclairSinclair (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shintaro ImaiImai – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Tatsuma ItoIto (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (1-0) – H2H and prediction