Yosuke Watanuki and Beibit Zhukayev will face off in the 2nd round of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, 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.
As per the initial odds, Yosuke Watanuki is the pick to win this match.
Yosuke Watanuki -> 1.21
Beibit Zhukayev -> 4.2
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Prediction and head to head Yosuke Watanuki vs. Beibit Zhukayev
This will be the 2nd time that Yosuke Watanuki and Beibit Zhukayev square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Watanuki (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Watanuki won 6-3 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger back in September 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. 173, the Japanese reached the 2nd round after defeating Zdenek Kolar 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Kolar (6-2 6-4). During the match, Watanuki scored 72 points vs Kolar’s 54. Yousuke was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Watanuki blasted 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Yosuke Watanuki was exceptionally effective on serve to win 82% (23/28) of his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Kolar 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Watanuki has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 60% of his matches (172-113). 15-11 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Watanuki has an overall99-61 record in the last 8 years on hard.
Yousuke’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Yokohama Challenger and the Kobe Challenger.
Yousuke has an overall 36-22 win-loss record in 2022, 15-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Beibit Zhukayev
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-17 | 6-8 | 6-4 | 0-1 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-30 | 19-16 | 1-3 | 11-8 | 2-2 | 4-1 |
| 2022 | 43-30 | 33-21 | 1-2 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-21 | 13-10 | 4-9 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 315 (career-high), Beibit reached the 2nd round after defeating Yuta Shimizu 6-1 6-4.
In the 1st round, Beibit had a good straight sets win against Shimizu (6-1 6-4). During the match Zhukayev scored 64 points vs Shimizu’s 48. Beibit was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Zhukayev made 7 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Beibit Zhukayev lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Zhukayev put 56% of his first serves in, winning 76% (25/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. Zhukayev broke Shimizu 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Zhukayev’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Sultan.
The Kazakhstani has an aggregate 43-29 win-loss record in 2022, 33-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Watanuki | Zhukayev |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 17 |
| Pts | 72-54 | 64-48 |
| Total Points | 126 | 112 |
| Winners | 23 | 25 |
| %Winners | 32% | 39% |
Both Watanuki and Zhukayev played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Watanuki and Zhukayev have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Watanuki played 1 game more than Zhukayev. The Japanese scored 23 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Beibit scored 25 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Watanuki | Zhukayev |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 7 |
| 1st in | 28/53 | 33/59 |
| %1st in | 53% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 23/28 | 25/33 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 16/25 | 13/26 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 50% |
Watanuki fired 5 aces . Zhukayev fired 7 aces . Watanuki won 82% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Zhukayev won 76% of the points behind 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 | Zhukayev |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/10 | 4/11 |
| % Converted | 30% | 36% |
| Conceded | 1 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Yousuke broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. Yousuke pretty solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. Zhukayev broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Watanuki | |||
| R1 Kolar |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 72-54 | 72-54 | |
| Total points | 126 | 126 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 28/53 | 28/53 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 23/28 | 23/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/25 | 16/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Zhukayev | |||
| R1 Shimizu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 64-48 | 64-48 | |
| Total points | 112 | 112 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 33/59 | 33/59 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 25/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/26 | 13/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWLWWLLWW Tennis Scores in Yokkaichi Challenger
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Duckhee LeeLee (1-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Yuki MochizukiMochizuki (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (6-4 7-61) – See score progression
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Colin SinclairSinclair – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Shintaro ImaiImai – Keisuke SaitohSaitoh (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-2 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Makoto OchiOchi (7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Shinji HazawaHazawa – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (6-3 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Mukund SasikumarSasikumar – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-4 1-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Yunseong ChungChung – Dane SweenySweeny (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (6-3 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Shinji HazawaHazawa – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-2 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Shintaro ImaiImai – Keisuke SaitohSaitoh (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Duckhee LeeLee (1-0 ret.) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Makoto OchiOchi (7-6(2) 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Colin SinclairSinclair (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Shinji HazawaHazawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Shintaro ImaiImai (0-0) – H2H and prediction
