Brandon Nakashima and Yosuke Watanuki will face off in the 2nd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 12:30 pm on COURT 4. 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 Brandon Nakashima who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Brandon Nakashima is the pick to win this match.
Brandon Nakashima -> 1.25
Yosuke Watanuki -> 3.94

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Prediction and head to head Brandon Nakashima vs. Yosuke Watanuki

There is no head to head record between Brandon Nakashima and Yosuke Watanuki since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Brandon Nakashima

Brandon Nakashima

60 - 27win/loss

Hard
24-11
I Hard
14-4
Clay
13-7
Grass
9-5
Rank
38
High
35
LLLWLLLWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 61-32 24-12 13-7 15-8 9-5 0-0
2023 21-26 9-15 3-4 8-3 1-4 0-0
2022 41-26 17-13 5-5 9-4 10-4 0-0
2021 45-25 17-10 4-7 20-5 4-3 0-0
2020 28-14 19-6 4-4 5-3 0-0 0-1

Ranked no. 35 (career-high), the American will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Tokyo where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Humbert in the 2nd round on the 27th of September.

Nakashima has a compiled 60-27 win-loss record in 2024, 24-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the year was winning the title the Tenerife 1 Challenger where he beat Pedro Martinez Portero in the final 6-3 6-4.

Talking about his overall career, Brandon has an overall 225-135 record. He has a positive 108-68 record on hard.

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2023. See his history.

Shanghai
Nakashima's Record

Yosuke Watanuki

Yosuke Watanuki

5 - 7win/loss

Hard
5-6
I Hard
0-0
Clay
0-1
Rank
375
High
72
LWWLWWWLLW
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. 336, Watanuki got to the 2nd round after defeating Otto Virtanen 6-7(4) 6-2 6-0, Seongchan Hong 6-2 7-5 and Pavel Kotov 6-7(6) 6-4 7-5.

In the 1st round against Kotov, Watanuki recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-76 6-4 7-5). During the match Watanuki scored 133 points vs Kotov’s 125. The Japanese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 51 winners.

About the serving games, Watanuki scored 7 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Yosuke Watanuki was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (51/70) of his 1st serve and 59% (30/51) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Kotov 3 times after converting 18% of his break points (3/17).

Yousuke has an overall 5-7 win-loss record in 2024, 5-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

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

Shanghai
Watanuki's Record

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