Yosuke Watanuki and Ramkumar Ramanathan will play each other in the quarter of the Kobe Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 1:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. 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 -> 1.3
Ramkumar Ramanathan -> 3.4
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Prediction and head to head Yosuke Watanuki vs. Ramkumar Ramanathan
There is no head to head record between Yosuke Watanuki and Ramkumar Ramanathan since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
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. 195, the Japanese reached the quarter after defeating Yunseong Chung 6-2 6-2 and Sho Shimabukuro 6-4 6-2.
In the 2nd round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Shimabukuro (6-4 6-2). During the match, Watanuki scored 73 points vs Shimabukuro’s 52. Yousuke was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Watanuki bagged 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Yosuke Watanuki was quite efficient on serve to win 85% (28/33) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Watanuki broke Shimabukuro 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Watanuki hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 60% of the points he played.
Watanuki has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 60% of his matches (168-113). 12-7 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Watanuki has an overall49-20 record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.
Yousuke’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Yokohama Challenger.
Yousuke has an overall 32-22 win-loss record in 2022, 12-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Ramkumar Ramanathan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-25 | 22-22 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-21 | 25-12 | 0-6 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 15-34 | 4-13 | 4-8 | 2-6 | 4-6 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 45-32 | 23-11 | 8-7 | 5-8 | 7-4 | 2-2 |
| 2020 | 8-18 | 3-8 | 0-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 5-2 |
Ranked no. 289, Ramkumar reached the quarter after defeating Kaichi Uchida 6-4 4-6 6-3 and Jason Jung 2-6 6-0 4-0 ret..
In the 2nd round against Jung, Ramkumar had a free pass after Jung retired on a 2-6 6-0 4-0 . scoreline.
Ramanathan has an overall 15-32 win-loss record in 2022, 2-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Watanuki | Ramanathan |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 34 | 47 |
| Pts | 135-89 | 157-133 |
| Total Points | 224 | 290 |
| Winners | 47 | 72 |
| %Winners | 35% | 46% |
Both Watanuki and Ramanathan played 2 matches. At the moment, Ramkumar Ramanathan lost 2 sets while Yosuke Watanuki hasn’t dropped a set so far. Watanuki has played 3 set(s) less than Ramanathan (4 vs 7). Therefore, Watanuki played 13 games less than Ramanathan. The Japanese scored 47 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Ramanathan blasted 72 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Watanuki | Ramanathan |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 15 | 21 |
| Avg per match | 7.5 | 10.5 |
| 1st in | 57/104 | 90/141 |
| %1st in | 55% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 47/57 | 72/90 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 31/47 | 23/51 |
| %2nd pts | 66% | 45% |
Watanuki made 15 aces (7.5 per match). Ramanathan struck 21 aces (10.5 per match). Watanuki won 82% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 66% of the points. On the other side, Ramanathan won 80% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Watanuki | Ramanathan |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 8 |
| Converted | 7/18 | 8/20 |
| % Converted | 39% | 40% |
| Conceded | 1 | 9 |
| Saved | 1 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 56% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
The Japanese broke his opponents 7 times with a 39% conversion rate. Watanuki very solid his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. Ramanathan broke his opponents 8 times with a 40% conversion rate. Ramkumar conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded.
| Watanuki | ||||
| R1 Chung |
R2 Shimabukuro |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 18 | 34 | |
| pts | 62-37 | 73-52 | 135-89 | |
| Total points | 99 | 125 | 224 | |
| Winners | 19 | 28 | 47 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 38% | 35% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 8 | 7 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 24/47 | 33/57 | 57/104 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 58% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 19/24 | 28/33 | 47/57 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 85% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/23 | 14/24 | 31/47 | |
| % 2nd pts | 74% | 58% | 66% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 3/8 | 7/18 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 38% | 39% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | – | 100% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ramanathan | ||||
| R1 Uchida |
R2 Jung |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 4-6 6-3 | 2-6 6-0 4-0 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 18 | 47 | |
| pts | 89-78 | 68-55 | 157-133 | |
| Total points | 167 | 123 | 290 | |
| Winners | 46 | 26 | 72 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 38% | 46% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 14 | 7 | 21 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 55/80 | 35/61 | 90/141 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 57% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 46/55 | 26/35 | 72/90 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 74% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/25 | 11/26 | 23/51 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 42% | 45% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 5/11 | 8/20 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 45% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 6 | 9 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 4/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 67% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
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