Yosuke Watanuki and Yunseong Chung will fight against each other in the quarter of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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.
As per the initial odds, Yosuke Watanuki is the pick to win this match.
Yosuke Watanuki -> 1.26
Yunseong Chung -> 3.7
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Prediction and head to head Yosuke Watanuki vs. Yunseong Chung
This will be the 5th time that Yosuke Watanuki and Yunseong Chung play each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Watanuki (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Watanuki won 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in the Kobe Challenger back in November 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. 173, Yousuke got to the quarter after beating Zdenek Kolar 6-2 6-4 and Beibit Zhukayev 6-0 4-1 ret..
In the 2nd round against Zhukayev, Watanuki had a free pass after Zhukayev retired on a 6-0 4-1 . scoreline.
Watanuki has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 60% of his matches (173-113). 16-11 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Watanuki has an overall100-61 record in the last 8 years on hard.
Watanuki’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Yokohama Challenger and the Kobe Challenger.
Yousuke has an aggregate 37-22 win-loss record in 2022, 16-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 361, the Korean got to the quarter after defeating Dane Sweeny 7-5 6-2 and Mukund Sasikumar 6-1 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Yunseong had a good straight sets win against Kumar Mukund (6-1 6-4). During the match Chung scored 71 points vs Kumar Mukund’s 54. Chung was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Chung recorded 3 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Yunseong Chung lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Chung put 69% of his first serves in, winning 73% (29/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. Chung broke Kumar Mukund 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Chung hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Yunseong’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Monastir.
The Korean has a composed 34-24 win-loss record in 2022, 23-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Watanuki | Chung |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 29 | 37 |
| Pts | 119-78 | 141-107 |
| Total Points | 197 | 248 |
| Winners | 38 | 62 |
| %Winners | 32% | 44% |
Both Watanuki and Chung played 2 matches. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Watanuki has played 1 set more than Chung (5 vs 4). However, it’s interesting to notice that Watanuki played 8 games less than Chung. Yousuke scored 38 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, The Korean scored 62 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Watanuki | Chung |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 2.5 |
| 1st in | 45/80 | 84/121 |
| %1st in | 56% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 38/45 | 62/84 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 22/35 | 18/37 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 49% |
Watanuki bagged 10 aces (5 per match). Chung made 5 aces (2.5 per match). Watanuki won 84% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Chung won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 49% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Watanuki | Chung |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 9 |
| Converted | 8/23 | 9/16 |
| % Converted | 35% | 56% |
| Conceded | 2 | 8 |
| Saved | 2 | 6 |
| % Saved | 100% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The Japanese broke his opponents 8 times with a 35% conversion rate. The Japanese extremely effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 2 break points. Yunseong broke his opponents 9 times with a 56% conversion rate. Chung conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Watanuki | ||||
| R1 Kolar |
R2 Zhukayev |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | 6-0 4-1 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 11 | 29 | |
| pts | 72-54 | 47-24 | 119-78 | |
| Total points | 126 | 71 | 197 | |
| Winners | 23 | 15 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 28/53 | 17/27 | 45/80 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 63% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 23/28 | 15/17 | 38/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 88% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/25 | 6/10 | 22/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 60% | 63% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 5/13 | 8/23 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 38% | 35% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Chung | ||||
| R1 Sweeny |
R2 Kumar Mukund |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 17 | 37 | |
| pts | 70-53 | 71-54 | 141-107 | |
| Total points | 123 | 125 | 248 | |
| Winners | 33 | 29 | 62 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 41% | 44% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 44/63 | 40/58 | 84/121 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 33/44 | 29/40 | 62/84 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 73% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 8/18 | 18/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 44% | 49% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 5/12 | 9/16 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 42% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 6 | 8 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 5/6 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 83% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
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