Pavel Kotov and Yosuke Watanuki will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 5:30 pm on SHOW COURT 3. 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 Pavel Kotov who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Pavel Kotov is the pick to win this match.
Pavel Kotov -> 1.43
Yosuke Watanuki -> 2.82

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Prediction and head to head Pavel Kotov vs. Yosuke Watanuki

This will be the 2^nd time that Pavel Kotov and Yosuke Watanuki play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Watanuki (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Watanuki won 6-7(7) 6-3 7-6(3) in the qualifications in Madrid back in 2023.

Highlights Yosuke Watanuki vs Pavel Kotov – Madrid 25-April-2023

Pavel Kotov

Ranked no. 63, Kotov will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Beijing where he lost 6-4 6-2 to Cobolli in the 2^nd round on the 28^th of September.

Pavel has a composed 20-20 win-loss record in 2024, 9-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The Russian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Marrakech.

Talking about his overall career, Kotov has an overall 272-180 record. He has a positive 58-44 record on hard.

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2023. See his history.

Yosuke Watanuki

Ranked no. 337, Watanuki reached the 1^st round after defeating Otto Virtanen 6-7(4) 6-2 6-0 and Seongchan Hong 6-2 7-5.

In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Chan Hong (6-2 7-5). During the match Watanuki scored 69 points vs Chan Hong’s 51. Watanuki was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Watanuki bagged 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Yosuke Watanuki was quite efficient on serve to win 76% (25/33) of his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Watanuki broke Chan Hong 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Yousuke started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.

The Japanese has a composed 4-7 win-loss record in 2024, 4-6 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2023. See his history.

Tennis Scores in Shanghai

• Arthur CazauxCazaux – Marin CilicCilic (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (6-4 7-6⁵) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexandre MullerMuller – Luca NardiNardi (4-6 6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (7-6⁵ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yibing WuWu – Sumit NagalNagal (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Fabio FogniniFognini – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kei NishikoriNishikori – Mariano NavoneNavone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• David GoffinGoffin – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Taro DanielDaniel (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Li TuTu – Marcos GironGiron (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Zizou BergsBergs (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Alexandre MullerMuller – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Aleksandar VukicVukic – Corentin MoutetMoutet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Hugo GastonGaston (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Gabriel DialloDiallo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Daniel EvansEvans (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Terence AtmaneAtmane (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yibing WuWu – Nicolas JarryJarry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Pavel KotovKotov – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Sebastian BaezBaez – Gael MonfilsMonfils (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-0) – H2H and prediction