Pavle Marinkov and Seita Watanabe will play each other in the qualifications of the Playford Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. 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 Seita Watanabe who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Seita Watanabe is the pick to win this match.
Seita Watanabe -> 1.833
Pavle Marinkov -> 1.89

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Prediction and head to head Pavle Marinkov vs. Seita Watanabe

There is no head to head record between Pavle Marinkov and Seita Watanabe since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Pavle Marinkov

Ranked no. 826,he will start his run in the Playford Challenger after he played his last match in the Playford Challenger where he beat 6-3 7-6(5) to Lomakin in the qualifications on the 20^th of October.

Marinkov has a compiled 11-14 win-loss record in 2024, 8-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Pavle has an overall 32-27 record. He has a positive 26-18 record on hard.

Previously in the Playford Challenger

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

Seita Watanabe

Ranked no. 895, the Japanese got to the qualifications after beating Matthew Hulme 6-4 1-6 7-6(8).

In the qualifications, The Japanese defeated Hulme (6-4 1-6 7-6⁸).During the match Watanabe scored less points (6) than Hulme. In fact, the world no. 826 won 100 points vs Hulme’s. That means that Watanabe was more focused during the important points. The Japanese was pretty aggressive to blast 52 winners.

Talking about serving, Watanabe recorded 3 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Seita Watanabe lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Watanabe put 66% of his first serves in, winning 75% (52/69) of the points behind his 1st serve and 39% (14/36) on the 2nd serve. Watanabe broke Hulme twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

The Japanese has a composed 13-15 win-loss record in 2024, 8-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Playford Challenger

The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Marinkov	Watanabe
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	22	30
Pts	74-60	100-106
Total Points	134	206
Winners	31	52
%Winners	42%	52%

Both Marinkov and Watanabe played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Seita Watanabe lost 1 set while Pavle Marinkov hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Marinkov has played 1 set(s) less than Watanabe (2 vs 3). Therefore, Marinkov played 8 games less than Watanabe. Pavle scored 31 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Watanabe fired 52 winners (52%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Marinkov	Watanabe
Aces	8	3
Avg per match	8	3
1st in	36/63	69/105
%1st in	57%	66%
1st pts	31/36	52/69
%1st pts	86%	75%
2nd pts	16/27	14/36
%2nd pts	59%	39%

Marinkov recorded 8 aces . Watanabe blasted 3 aces . Marinkov won 86% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Watanabe won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 39% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Marinkov	Watanabe
Won	2	2
Converted	2/7	2/5
% Converted	29%	40%
Conceded	3	8
Saved	2	5
% Saved	67%	63%
Times Broken	1	3

The Australian broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Marinkov conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Seita conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded.

Marinkov
	Total
Score
Tot Set	0
Tot Games	0
pts	0-0
Total points	0
Winners	0
%Winners	0%
SERVE
Aces	0
Double Faults	0
1st in	0/0
% 1st in	0%
1st pts	0/0
% 1st pts	%
2nd pts	0/0
% 2nd pts	0%
Breaks
Won	0
Converted	0/0
Converted %	0%
Conceded	0
Saved	0
Saved %	0%
Times Broken	0

Watanabe
	Q1 Hulme	Total
Score	6-4 1-6 7-68
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	30	30
pts	100-106	100-106
Total points	206	206
Winners	52	52
%Winners	52%	52%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	69/105	69/105
% 1st in	66%	66%
1st pts	52/69	52/69
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	14/36	14/36
% 2nd pts	39%	39%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/5	2/5
Converted %	40%	40%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	5/8	5
Saved %	63%	0%
Times Broken	3	3

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