Yosuke Watanuki and Mikhail Kukushkin will square off in the qualifications of the Australian Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on Court 6. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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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 -> 1.68
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 2.12
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Prediction and head to head Yosuke Watanuki vs. Mikhail Kukushkin
This will be the 2nd time that Yosuke Watanuki and Mikhail Kukushkin face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kukushkin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Kukushkin won 7-6(4) 6-1 in the 2nd round in the Traralgon Challenger back in 2022.
Yosuke Watanuki
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 2-7 | 2-6 | 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. 138 (career-high), Watanuki got to the qualifications after beating Philip Sekulic 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Yousuke had a good straight sets win against Sekulic (6-4 6-2). During the match, Watanuki scored 55 points vs Sekulic’s 43. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Regarding the service games, Watanuki recorded 8 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults. Yosuke Watanuki was very efficient on serve to win 91% (20/22) 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 Sekulic 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Watanuki has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 61% of his matches (180-114). 4-1 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Watanuki has an overall107-62 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
Yousuke’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Canberra Challenger.
Watanuki has an aggregate 4-1 win-loss record in 2023, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Mikhail Kukushkin
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 47-26 | 24-9 | 10-9 | 7-4 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
2023 | 23-24 | 17-11 | 3-5 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 36-28 | 18-11 | 0-2 | 13-11 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
2021 | 12-24 | 8-9 | 0-6 | 2-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
2020 | 9-12 | 3-5 | 3-2 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 195, Mikhail got to the qualifications after beating James Duckworth 7-5 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Duckworth (7-5 6-4). During the match Kukushkin scored 77 points vs Duckworth’s 70. Mikhail was pretty aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Kukushkin made 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Mikhail Kukushkin lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Kukushkin put 67% of his first serves in, winning 72% (38/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (12/26) on the 2nd serve. Kukushkin broke Duckworth 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Mikhail has a compiled 1-1 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, his best result was reaching the 4th round in 2012. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Watanuki | Kukushkin |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 18 | 22 |
Pts | 55-43 | 77-70 |
Total Points | 98 | 147 |
Winners | 20 | 38 |
%Winners | 36% | 49% |
Both Watanuki and Kukushkin played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Watanuki and Kukushkin have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Watanuki played 4 games less than Kukushkin. The Japanese scored 20 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Kazakhstani recorded 38 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Watanuki | Kukushkin |
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Aces | 8 | 5 |
Avg per match | 8 | 5 |
1st in | 22/47 | 53/79 |
%1st in | 47% | 67% |
1st pts | 20/22 | 38/53 |
%1st pts | 91% | 72% |
2nd pts | 16/25 | 12/26 |
%2nd pts | 64% | 46% |
Watanuki bagged 8 aces . Kukushkin managed to score 5 aces . Watanuki won 91% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Kukushkin won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Watanuki | Kukushkin |
---|---|---|
Won | 3 | 3 |
Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 |
% Converted | 43% | 43% |
Conceded | 0 | 7 |
Saved | 0 | 6 |
% Saved | 0% | 86% |
Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Yousuke broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Watanuki pretty solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Kukushkin broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.
Watanuki | |||
Q1 Sekulic |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
pts | 55-43 | 55-43 | |
Total points | 98 | 98 | |
Winners | 20 | 20 | |
%Winners | 36% | 36% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 8 | 8 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
1st in | 22/47 | 22/47 | |
% 1st in | 47% | 47% | |
1st pts | 20/22 | 20/22 | |
% 1st pts | 91% | 91% | |
2nd pts | 16/25 | 16/25 | |
% 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
Saved % | – | 0% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Kukushkin | |||
Q1 Duckworth |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-5 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
pts | 77-70 | 77-70 | |
Total points | 147 | 147 | |
Winners | 38 | 38 | |
%Winners | 49% | 49% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 5 | 5 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
1st in | 53/79 | 53/79 | |
% 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
1st pts | 38/53 | 38/53 | |
% 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
2nd pts | 12/26 | 12/26 | |
% 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores – Australian Open
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