Yu Hsiou Hsu and Yosuke Watanuki will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Taipei 2 Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yosuke Watanuki who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yosuke Watanuki is the pick to win this match.
Yosuke Watanuki -> 1.32
Yu Hsiou Hsu -> 3.15
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Prediction and head to head Yu Hsiou Hsu vs. Yosuke Watanuki
This will be the 3rd time that Yu Hsiou Hsu and Yosuke Watanuki square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Hsiou Hsu and Watanuki (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Hsiou Hsu won 2-6 6-4 4-0 ret. in the 2nd round in the Shanghai Challenger back in September 2024.
Yu Hsiou Hsu
40 - 28win/loss
220
158
LLWWLLLLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 42-30 | 38-25 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-21 | 30-15 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-24 | 47-18 | 5-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 53-23 | 49-16 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 235, Yu will start his run in the Taipei 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Shenzhen Challenger where he lost 6-4 3-6 6-2 to Bai in the 1st round on the 14th of October.
The Chinese has an aggregate 40-28 win-loss record in 2024, 2-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
The Chinese’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Kashiwa,M25 Tianjin,M25 Taipei and the Shanghai Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Yu has an overall 265-154 record. He has a negative 6-12 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Taipei 2 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2024. See his history.
Yosuke Watanuki
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-9 | 6-7 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 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. 274, Watanuki will start his run in the Taipei 2 Challenger after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Fritz in the 3rd round on the 8th of October.
Watanuki has an aggregate 6-8 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
In terms of his career, The Japanese has an overall 225-144 record. He has a positive 53-22 record on indoor hard courts.
Head 2 Head
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LLWWWWLLLW Tennis Scores in Taipei 2 Challenger
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- Kuan-Yi LeeLee – Mitsuki Wei Kang LeongWei Kang Leong (6-4 1-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adam WaltonWalton – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (6-4 1-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mukund SasikumarSasikumar – Thanapet ChantaChanta (2-6 6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Hyeon ChungChung (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tsung-Hao HuangHuang – Julian OcleppoOcleppo (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kokoro IsomuraIsomura – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (7-63 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxime JanvierMaxime – Ray HoRay (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
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- Alafia AyeniAyeni – Taro DanielDaniel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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