Yosuke Watanuki and Mikalai Haliak will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Shanghai Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:00 pm on COURT 5. 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 -> 1.14
Mikalai Haliak -> 5.1
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Prediction and head to head Yosuke Watanuki vs. Mikalai Haliak
There is no head to head record between Yosuke Watanuki and Mikalai Haliak since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
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. 85 (career-high), the Japanese got to the 2nd round after defeating Alex Bolt 6-4 6-0.
In the 1st round, Watanuki had a good straight sets win against Bolt (6-4 6-0). During the match, Watanuki scored 66 points vs Bolt’s 45. Watanuki was extremely aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about the service games, Watanuki recorded 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Yosuke Watanuki was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 78% (18/23) 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 Bolt 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Watanuki has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 62% of his matches (208-130). 19-8 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Watanuki has a composed122-69 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
Watanuki’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Canberra Challenger,the Monterrey Challenger and the Stanford Challenger.
Watanuki has an overall 32-17 win-loss record in 2023, 19-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shanghai Challenger
Yousuke has never competed in this tournament before.
Mikalai Haliak
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-15 | 3-10 | 0-0 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-28 | 12-9 | 25-13 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 26-25 | 5-7 | 15-12 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-11 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 16-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-7 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 567 (career-high), the Belarussian reached the 2nd round after beating Alafia Ayeni 6-2 3-6 6-3.
In the 1st round, Haliak defeated Ayeni (6-2 3-6 6-3). During the match Haliak scored 100 points vs Ayeni’s 90. The Belarussian was very aggressive to blast 45 winners.
Talking about serving, Haliak scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Mikalai Haliak was pretty effective on serve to win 71% (45/63) of his 1st serve and 53% (18/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Haliak broke Ayeni 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Haliak’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Baotou and the Zhangjiagang Challenger.
Haliak has an aggregate 39-20 win-loss record in 2023, 8-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Watanuki | Haliak |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 26 |
| Pts | 66-45 | 100-90 |
| Total Points | 111 | 190 |
| Winners | 18 | 45 |
| %Winners | 27% | 45% |
Both Watanuki and Haliak played 1 match. At the moment, Mikalai Haliak conceded 1 set while Yosuke Watanuki hasn’t conceded a set so far. Watanuki has played 1 set(s) less than Haliak (2 vs 3). Therefore, Watanuki played 10 games less than Haliak. The Japanese scored 18 winners (27% of the total points). On the other side, The Belarussian blasted 45 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Watanuki | Haliak |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 1 |
| 1st in | 23/48 | 63/97 |
| %1st in | 48% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 18/23 | 45/63 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 16/25 | 18/34 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 53% |
Watanuki made 8 aces . Haliak struck 1 ace . Watanuki won 78% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Haliak won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Watanuki | Haliak |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/11 | 3/9 |
| % Converted | 36% | 33% |
| Conceded | 2 | 10 |
| Saved | 2 | 9 |
| % Saved | 100% | 90% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Yousuke broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Japanese quite strong on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 2 break points. Haliak broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Mikalai conceded his serve once and he saved 90% of the break points that he conceded.
| Watanuki | |||
| R1 Bolt |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 66-45 | 66-45 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 27% | 27% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 23/48 | 23/48 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 18/23 | 18/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/25 | 16/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Haliak | |||
| R1 Ayeni |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 3-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 100-90 | 100-90 | |
| Total points | 190 | 190 | |
| Winners | 45 | 45 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 63/97 | 63/97 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 45/63 | 45/63 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/34 | 18/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 9/10 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 90% | 90% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yan BaiBai – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine BellierBellier – Terence AtmaneAtmane (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikalai HaliakHaliak – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
