Seita Watanabe and Aleksandre Bakshi will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Astana Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete 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 Aleksandre Bakshi who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aleksandre Bakshi is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandre Bakshi -> 1.45
Seita Watanabe -> 2.62
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Prediction and head to head Seita Watanabe vs. Aleksandre Bakshi
There is no head to head record between Seita Watanabe and Aleksandre Bakshi since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Seita Watanabe
9 - 10win/loss
858
824
LWWLWLWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-17 | 10-9 | 5-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 13-16 | 13-13 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 14-23 | 12-20 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-20 | 23-15 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Seita got to the 2nd round after defeating Karan Singh 6-2 6-7(5) 6-3, Aleksandr Lobanov 6-3 6-1 and Filip Peliwo 6-7(3) 6-4 7-6(8).
In the 1st round against Peliwo, The Japanese recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-73 6-4 7-68).During the match, Watanabe scored less points (2) than Peliwo. In fact, the world no. won 121 points vs Peliwo’s. That means that Watanabe was more focused during the important points. Seita was pretty aggressive to blast 55 winners.
Regarding the service games, Watanabe recorded 6 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Seita Watanabe lost the serve 3 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Watanabe put 61% of his first serves in, winning 71% (55/78) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (24/49) on the 2nd serve. Seita broke Peliwo 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Watanabe has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 51% of his matches (94-91). 4-2 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Watanabe has an overall78-65 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
Seita has a composed 9-10 win-loss record in 2024, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Astana Challenger
Aleksandre Bakshi
17 - 14win/loss
479
475
LWLWLWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-26 | 34-22 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-18 | 19-15 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-17 | 22-13 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-17 | 8-7 | 10-8 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 622 (career-high), Aleksandre reached the 2nd round after defeating Ricardas Berankis 7-5 3-6 7-6(5) and Seita Watanabe .
In the 1st round, Bakshi defeated Berankis (7-5 3-6 7-65).During the match Bakshi scored less points (3) than Berankis. In fact, the world no. won 107 points vs Berankis’s. That means that Bakshi was more focused during the important points. Aleksandre was exceptionally aggressive to blast 46 winners.
About the serving games, Bakshi scored 11 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Aleksandre Bakshi was very efficient on serve to win 74% (46/62) of his 1st serve and 61% (28/46) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Aleksandre broke Berankis once after converting 17% of his break points (1/6).
Bakshi’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Kachreti Challenger.
Bakshi has an aggregate 17-14 win-loss record in 2024, 16-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Astana Challenger
The Georgean has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Watanabe | Bakshi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 8 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 82 | 34 |
| Pts | 304-272 | 107-110 |
| Total Points | 576 | 217 |
| Winners | 121 | 46 |
| %Winners | 40% | 43% |
Watanabe played 3 matches while Bakshi competed in 1 match. Watanabe started his run from the qualifications while Bakshi had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Seita Watanabe surrendered 2 sets, while Aleksandre Bakshi surrendered 1 set. Watanabe has played 5 sets more than Bakshi (8 vs 3). Therefore, Watanabe played 48 games more than Bakshi. The Japanese scored 121 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Georgean fired 46 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Watanabe | Bakshi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 22 | 11 |
| Avg per match | 7.3 | 11 |
| 1st in | 171/286 | 62/108 |
| %1st in | 60% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 121/171 | 46/62 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 58/115 | 28/46 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 61% |
Watanabe bagged 22 aces (7.3 per match). Bakshi made 11 aces . Watanabe won 71% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Bakshi won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Watanabe | Bakshi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 15 | 1 |
| Converted | 15/34 | 1/6 |
| % Converted | 44% | 17% |
| Conceded | 24 | 4 |
| Saved | 18 | 3 |
| % Saved | 75% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 6 | 1 |
Watanabe broke his opponents 15 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Japanese dropped his serve 6 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Georgean broke his opponent once with a 17% conversion rate. The Georgean conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Watanabe | |||||
| Q1 Singh |
Q3 Lobanov |
R1 Peliwo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-75 6-3 | 6-3 6-1 | 6-73 6-4 7-68 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 16 | 36 | 82 | |
| pts | 119-106 | 64-43 | 121-123 | 304-272 | |
| Total points | 225 | 107 | 244 | 576 | |
| Winners | 42 | 24 | 55 | 121 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 38% | 45% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 10 | 6 | 6 | 22 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 60/102 | 33/57 | 78/127 | 171/286 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 58% | 61% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 42/60 | 24/33 | 55/78 | 121/171 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 73% | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/42 | 12/24 | 24/49 | 58/115 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 50% | 49% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 6 | 5 | 4 | 15 | |
| Converted | 6/17 | 5/7 | 4/10 | 15/34 | |
| Converted % | 35% | 71% | 40% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 4 | 12 | 24 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 3/4 | 9/12 | 18 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |
| Bakshi | |||||
| R1 Berankis |
Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 3-6 7-65 | ||||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |||
| Tot Games | 34 | 34 | |||
| pts | 107-110 | 107-110 | |||
| Total points | 217 | 217 | |||
| Winners | 46 | 46 | |||
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |||
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |||
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |||
| 1st in | 62/108 | 62/108 | |||
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |||
| 1st pts | 46/62 | 46/62 | |||
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |||
| 2nd pts | 28/46 | 28/46 | |||
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |||
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |||
| Converted | 1/6 | 1/6 | |||
| Converted % | 17% | 17% | |||
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |||
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |||
| Saved % | 75% | 25% | |||
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |||
Head 2 Head
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LWLWLWLWWL Tennis Scores in Astana Challenger
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Petr Bar BiryukovBar Biryukov (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Ilia SimakinSimakin – Siddharth VishwakarmaVishwakarma (3-6 7-65 7-5) – See score progression
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (6-1 7-66) – See score progression
- Yanki ErelErel – Orel KimhiKimhi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Seita WatanabeWatanabe – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-73 6-4 7-68) – See score progression
- Egor AgafonovAgafonov – Saveliy IvanovIvanov (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Amir OmarkhanovOmarkhanov – Maxim ZhukovZhukov (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Antoine GhibaudoGhibaudo – Yshai OlielOliel (6-1 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Sergey FominFomin – Takeru YuzukiYuzuki (7-64 6-1) – See score progression
- Neil OberleitnerOberleitner – Mirza BasicBasic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Grigoriy LomakinLomakin – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-63 7-64) – See score progression
- Aleksandre BakshiBakshi – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (7-5 3-6 7-65) – See score progression
- Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Dominik PalanPalan (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Vladyslav OrlovOrlov – Daniel CukiermanCukierman (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Seita WatanabeWatanabe – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (6-7(3) 6-4 7-6(8)) – See score progression
- Sergey FominFomin – Takeru YuzukiYuzuki (7-6(4) 6-1) – See score progression
- Yanki ErelErel – Orel KimhiKimhi (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Moerani BouzigeBouzige (6-1 7-6(6)) – See score progression
- Egor AgafonovAgafonov – Saveliy IvanovIvanov (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Grigoriy LomakinLomakin – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Petr Bar BiryukovBar Biryukov (7-6(5) 6-4) – See score progression
- Neil OberleitnerOberleitner – Mirza BasicBasic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Antoine GhibaudoGhibaudo – Yshai OlielOliel (6-1 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Amir OmarkhanovOmarkhanov – Maxim ZhukovZhukov (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Ilia SimakinSimakin – Siddharth VishwakarmaVishwakarma (3-6 7-6(5) 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Vladyslav OrlovOrlov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandre BakshiBakshi – Seita WatanabeWatanabe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Grigoriy LomakinLomakin – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sergey FominFomin – Yanki ErelErel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Neil OberleitnerOberleitner – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
