Taylor Fritz and Yosuke Watanuki will fight against each other in the 3rd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on STADIUM COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taylor Fritz who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Taylor Fritz is the pick to win this match.
Taylor Fritz -> 1.21
Yosuke Watanuki -> 4.4
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Prediction and head to head Taylor Fritz vs. Yosuke Watanuki
This will be the 2nd time that Taylor Fritz and Yosuke Watanuki fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Fritz (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Fritz won 7-6(2) 6-7(6) 6-4 in the 2nd round in Shanghai back in 2023.
Highlights Taylor Fritz vs Yosuke Watanuki – Shanghai 07-October-2023
Taylor Fritz
46 - 19win/loss
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WLLWLWWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 46-19 | 19-9 | 15-7 | 2-1 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 54-24 | 35-11 | 11-6 | 5-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-21 | 24-8 | 5-3 | 9-7 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-22 | 20-13 | 4-5 | 8-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-16 | 11-9 | 2-3 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 7, the American got to the 3rd round after defeating Unknown Player bye and Terence Atmane 7-6(4) 7-6(5).
In the 2nd round, The American had a good straight sets win against Atmane (7-64 7-65).During the match, Fritz scored less points (3) than Atmane. In fact, the world no. 7 won 80 points vs Atmane’s. That means that Fritz was more focused during the important points. Fritz was pretty aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about the service games, Fritz recorded 6 aces and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults. Overall, Taylor Fritz was very efficient on serve to win 73% (38/52) of his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Fritz broke Atmane once after converting 17% of his break points (1/6).
Fritz has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (381-226). 19-9 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Fritz has a compiled 224-115 match record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title in Delray Beach where he defeated Tommy Paul in the final 6-2 6-3 and in Eastbourne where he defeated Max Purcell in the final 6-4 6-3.
Fritz has an aggregate 46-19 win-loss record in 2024, 19-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Shanghai
Yosuke Watanuki
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-7 | 6-6 | 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. 336, Watanuki got to the 3rd round after defeating Otto Virtanen 6-7(4) 6-2 6-0, Seongchan Hong 6-2 7-5, Pavel Kotov 6-7(6) 6-4 7-5 and Brandon Nakashima 7-6(4) 6-3.
In the 2nd round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Nakashima (7-64 6-3). During the match Watanuki scored 75 points vs Nakashima’s 63. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Watanuki struck 5 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Yosuke Watanuki was pretty efficient on serve to win 74% (32/43) of his 1st serve and 63% (17/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Watanuki broke Nakashima twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Watanuki started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Watanuki has a compiled 6-7 win-loss record in 2024, 6-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Shanghai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Fritz | Watanuki |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 4 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 10 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 104 |
| Pts | 80-83 | 373-310 |
| Total Points | 163 | 683 |
| Winners | 38 | 148 |
| %Winners | 48% | 40% |
Fritz played 1 match while Watanuki competed in 4 matches. Watanuki started his run from the qualifications while Fritz had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Yosuke Watanuki lost 2 sets while Taylor Fritz hasn’t dropped a set so far. Fritz has played 8 set(s) less than Watanuki (2 vs 10). Therefore, Fritz played 78 games less than Watanuki. Taylor scored 38 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese bagged 148 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Fritz | Watanuki |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 18 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 4.5 |
| 1st in | 52/82 | 196/329 |
| %1st in | 63% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 38/52 | 148/196 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 77/133 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 58% |
Fritz recorded 6 aces . Watanuki fired 18 aces (4.5 per match). Fritz won 73% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Watanuki won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Fritz | Watanuki |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 15 |
| Converted | 1/6 | 15/39 |
| % Converted | 17% | 38% |
| Conceded | 3 | 18 |
| Saved | 2 | 14 |
| % Saved | 67% | 78% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Taylor broke his opponent once with a 17% conversion rate. Taylor conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Watanuki broke his opponents 15 times with a 38% conversion rate. Watanuki conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded.
| Fritz | |||
| R2 Atmane |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 80-83 | 80-83 | |
| Total points | 163 | 163 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 52/82 | 52/82 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 38/52 | 38/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 17/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/6 | 1/6 | |
| Converted % | 17% | 17% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Watanuki | ||||||
| Q1 Virtanen |
Q3 Chan Hong |
R1 Kotov |
R2 Nakashima |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-74 6-2 6-0 | 6-2 7-5 | 6-76 6-4 7-5 | 7-64 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 20 | 35 | 22 | 104 | |
| pts | 96-71 | 69-51 | 133-125 | 75-63 | 373-310 | |
| Total points | 167 | 120 | 258 | 138 | 683 | |
| Winners | 40 | 25 | 51 | 32 | 148 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 36% | 38% | 43% | 40% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 18 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 14 | |
| 1st in | 50/80 | 33/58 | 70/121 | 43/70 | 196/329 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 57% | 58% | 61% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 40/50 | 25/33 | 51/70 | 32/43 | 148/196 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 76% | 73% | 74% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/30 | 15/25 | 30/51 | 17/27 | 77/133 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 60% | 59% | 63% | 58% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 4/5 | 3/17 | 2/6 | 15/39 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 80% | 18% | 33% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 18 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 5/6 | 4/5 | 3/4 | 14 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 83% | 80% | 75% | 305% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Carlos AlcarazAlcaraz – Yibing WuWu (7-65 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (6-73 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
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