Yosuke Watanuki and Nicolas Moreno De Alboran will play each other in the 2nd round of the Stanford Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:30 pm on COURT 1. 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yosuke Watanuki is the pick to win this match.
Yosuke Watanuki -> 1.64
Nicolas Moreno De Alboran -> 2.16
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Prediction and head to head Yosuke Watanuki vs. Nicolas Moreno De Alboran
There is no head to head record between Yosuke Watanuki and Nicolas Moreno De Alboran 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. 90 (career-high), the Japanese reached the 2nd round after defeating Steve Johnson 7-5 5-7 6-4.
In the 1st round, Yousuke defeated Johnson (7-5 5-7 6-4). During the match, Watanuki scored 100 points vs Johnson’s 97. Yousuke was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about the service games, Watanuki fired 11 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Yosuke Watanuki was quite efficient on serve to win 83% (34/41) of his 1st serve and 57% (32/56) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Watanuki broke Johnson 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Watanuki has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 61% of his matches (205-129). 16-7 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Watanuki has an overall119-68 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Japanese’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Canberra Challenger and the Monterrey Challenger.
Yousuke has a composed 29-16 win-loss record in 2023, 16-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Stanford Challenger
Yousuke has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicolas Moreno De Alboran
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 51-35 | 21-12 | 27-19 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-30 | 25-16 | 10-8 | 4-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-20 | 8-2 | 28-17 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-20 | 22-11 | 22-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-12 | 14-8 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 136 (career-high), Nicolas got to the 2nd round after beating Nick Chappell 3-6 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round against Chappell, The Spaniard recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Moreno De Alboran scored 90 points vs Chappell’s 85. The Spaniard was exceptionally aggressive to blast 43 winners.
About the serving games, Moreno De Alboran scored 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Nicolas Moreno De Alboran lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Moreno De Alboran put 67% of his first serves in, winning 70% (43/61) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (15/30) on the 2nd serve. The Spaniard broke Chappell 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Tyler Challenger where he defeated Mikhail Kukushkin in the final 6-7(8) 7-6(0) 6-4.
Moreno De Alboran has a compiled 34-21 win-loss record in 2023, 21-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Watanuki | Moreno De Alboran |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 34 | 28 |
| Pts | 100-97 | 90-85 |
| Total Points | 197 | 175 |
| Winners | 34 | 43 |
| %Winners | 34% | 48% |
Both Watanuki and Moreno De Alboran played 1 match. Both players lost a set in the event. Yosuke Watanuki lost 1 set, while Nicolas Moreno De Alboran surrendered 1 set. Talking about their workload, Watanuki and Moreno De Alboran have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Watanuki played 6 games more than Moreno De Alboran. The Japanese scored 34 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Moreno De Alboran scored 43 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Watanuki | Moreno De Alboran |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 4 |
| 1st in | 41/97 | 61/91 |
| %1st in | 42% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 34/41 | 43/61 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 32/56 | 15/30 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 50% |
Watanuki made 11 aces . Moreno De Alboran bagged 4 aces . Watanuki won 83% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Moreno De Alboran won 70% 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 | Moreno De Alboran |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 |
| % Converted | 43% | 43% |
| Conceded | 7 | 6 |
| Saved | 5 | 4 |
| % Saved | 71% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Watanuki broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Nicolas broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Moreno De Alboran conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Watanuki | |||
| R1 Johnson |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 5-7 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 34 | 34 | |
| pts | 100-97 | 100-97 | |
| Total points | 197 | 197 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 41/97 | 41/97 | |
| % 1st in | 42% | 42% | |
| 1st pts | 34/41 | 34/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 32/56 | 32/56 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Moreno De Alboran | |||
| R1 Chappell |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 90-85 | 90-85 | |
| Total points | 175 | 175 | |
| Winners | 43 | 43 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 61/91 | 61/91 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 43/61 | 43/61 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/30 | 15/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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