Yosuke Watanuki and Yi Zhou will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Matsuyama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Yosuke Watanuki who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yosuke Watanuki is the pick to win this match.
Yosuke Watanuki -> 1.27
Yi Zhou -> 3.48
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Prediction and head to head Yosuke Watanuki vs. Yi Zhou
There is no head to head record between Yosuke Watanuki and Yi Zhou since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Yosuke Watanuki
| 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. 290, Yousuke will start his run in the Matsuyama Challenger after he played his last match in the Taipei 2 Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Hsiou in the 1st round on the 23rd of October.
The Japanese has a composed 6-9 win-loss record in 2024, 6-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 225-145 record. He has a positive 138-80 record on hard.
Previously in the Matsuyama Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
Yi Zhou
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-25 | 29-23 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 10-17 | 9-12 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 369 (career-high), the Chinese reached the 1st round after beating Yuhei Kono 7-5 6-0 and Liam Broady 7-6(4) 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Broady (7-64 6-4). During the match Zhou scored 81 points vs Broady’s 73. Zhou was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Zhou fired 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Yi Zhou lost the serve twice and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Zhou put 56% of his first serves in, winning 68% (28/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (20/32) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Broady 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Yi started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
The Chinese’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Luzhou,M15 Tianjin and M25 Tianjin.
The Chinese has an aggregate 29-23 win-loss record in 2024, 29-22 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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