Alexander Blockx and Yosuke Watanuki will face off in the quarter of the Kobe Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 3:00 pm on CENTRE 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yosuke Watanuki is the pick to win this match.
Yosuke Watanuki -> 1.57
Alexander Blockx -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Blockx vs. Yosuke Watanuki
This will be the 2nd time that Alexander Blockx and Yosuke Watanuki face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Watanuki (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Watanuki won 3-6 6-3 6-0 in the qualifications in Miami back in 2023.
Alexander Blockx
28 - 23win/loss
203
203
LWWWWWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-24 | 7-11 | 7-3 | 17-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-15 | 4-3 | 11-7 | 24-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 4-7 | 2-2 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 249, Alexander got to the quarter after beating Kasidit Samrej 7-6(3) 6-2 and Constant Lestienne 6-4 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The Belgian had a good straight sets win against Lestienne (6-4 6-4). During the match, Blockx scored 64 points vs Lestienne’s 51. The Belgian was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Blockx couldn’t to score even 1 ace in the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Alexander Blockx was very efficient on serve to win 74% (23/31) of his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Blockx was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Lestienne 3 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Alexander hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to win 55% of the points he played.
Blockx has a solid win-loss record in the last 3 years having won 61% of his matches (71-45). 14-10 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Blockx has a compiled38-16 record in the last 3 years on indoor hard courts.
The Belgian’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Nottingham Challenger,the Hamburg Challenger,the Cordenons Challenger,M25 Koksijde,the Orleans Challenger and the Matsuyama Challenger.
Alexander has a compiled 28-23 win-loss record in 2024, 14-10 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Alexander has never competed in this tournament before.
Yosuke Watanuki
11 - 10win/loss
375
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. 266, the Japanese got to the quarter after defeating Marc Polmans 7-5 ret. and Terence Atmane 7-6(5) 7-5.
In the 2nd round, Yousuke had a good straight sets win against Atmane (7-65 7-5). During the match Watanuki scored 81 points vs Atmane’s 64. Watanuki was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Watanuki scored 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Yosuke Watanuki was very efficient on serve to win 94% (31/33) of his 1st serve and 58% (18/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Yousuke was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Atmane 3 times.
Watanuki’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Matsuyama Challenger.
Watanuki has an aggregate 11-10 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Blockx | Watanuki |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 41 | 37 |
| Pts | 156-130 | 122-101 |
| Total Points | 286 | 223 |
| Winners | 58 | 46 |
| %Winners | 37% | 38% |
Both Blockx and Watanuki played 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Blockx and Watanuki have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Blockx played 4 games more than Watanuki. Blockx scored 58 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Yousuke scored 46 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Blockx | Watanuki |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 15 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 7.5 |
| 1st in | 79/134 | 50/103 |
| %1st in | 59% | 49% |
| 1st pts | 58/79 | 46/50 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 92% |
| 2nd pts | 31/55 | 27/53 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 51% |
Blockx fired 6 aces (3 per match). Watanuki made 15 aces (7.5 per match). Blockx won 73% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Watanuki won 92% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Blockx | Watanuki |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 5 |
| Converted | 6/18 | 5/7 |
| % Converted | 33% | 71% |
| Conceded | 11 | 4 |
| Saved | 9 | 1 |
| % Saved | 82% | 25% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 |
The Belgian broke his opponents 6 times with a 33% conversion rate. Alexander dropped his serve twice and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded. Yousuke broke his opponents 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Yousuke conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded.
| Blockx | ||||
| R1 Samrej |
R2 Lestienne |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-2 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 20 | 41 | |
| pts | 92-79 | 64-51 | 156-130 | |
| Total points | 171 | 115 | 286 | |
| Winners | 35 | 23 | 58 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 36% | 37% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 48/79 | 31/55 | 79/134 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 56% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 35/48 | 23/31 | 58/79 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 74% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/31 | 15/24 | 31/55 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 63% | 56% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Converted | 3/15 | 3/3 | 6/18 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 100% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 3 | 11 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 2/3 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 67% | 78% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Watanuki | ||||
| R1 Polmans |
R2 Atmane |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 ret. | 7-65 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 12 | 25 | 37 | |
| pts | 41-37 | 81-64 | 122-101 | |
| Total points | 78 | 145 | 223 | |
| Winners | 15 | 31 | 46 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 8 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 17/39 | 33/64 | 50/103 | |
| % 1st in | 44% | 52% | 49% | |
| 1st pts | 15/17 | 31/33 | 46/50 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 94% | 92% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/22 | 18/31 | 27/53 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 58% | 51% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 3/3 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 100% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 33% | 17% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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