Jake Delaney and James Watt will square off in the qualifications of the Brisbane 2 Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on PAT RAFTER ARENA. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jake Delaney who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jake Delaney is the pick to win this match.
Jake Delaney -> 1.52
James Watt -> 2.4
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Prediction and head to head Jake Delaney vs. James Watt
This will be the 3rd time that Jake Delaney and James Watt face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Delaney and Watt (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Watt won 6-3 7-5 in the semifinal in M25 Darwin back in 2024.
Jake Delaney
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9-7 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 40-31 | 38-28 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-27 | 34-21 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 8-10 | 8-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 503, Jake got to the qualifications after beating Jesse Delaney 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Jake had a good straight sets win against Delaney (6-3 6-2). During the match, Delaney scored 54 points vs Delaney’s 32. Jake was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Delaney recorded 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Jake Delaney was very effective on serve to win 91% (21/23) of his 1st serve and 73% (11/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Delaney 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Delaney has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 55% of his matches (145-120). 2-1 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Delaney has a composed132-105 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
Delaney has a compiled 2-1 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Brisbane 2 Challenger
Jake has never competed in this tournament before.
James Watt
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4-8 | 2-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-21 | 22-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 6-12 | 6-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 816, James got to the qualifications after beating Jacob Brumm 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Kiwi had a good straight sets win against Brumm (6-2 6-2). During the match Watt scored 64 points vs Brumm’s 34. The Kiwi was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Watt made 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. James Watt was extremely efficient on serve to win 93% (26/28) of his 1st serve and 75% (6/8) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. James broke Brumm 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
The Kiwi has an aggregate 2-1 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Delaney | Watt |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 16 |
| Pts | 54-32 | 64-34 |
| Total Points | 86 | 98 |
| Winners | 21 | 26 |
| %Winners | 39% | 41% |
Both Delaney and Watt played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Delaney and Watt have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Delaney played 1 game more than Watt. The Australian scored 21 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, James scored 26 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Delaney | Watt |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 6 |
| 1st in | 23/38 | 28/36 |
| %1st in | 61% | 78% |
| 1st pts | 21/23 | 26/28 |
| %1st pts | 91% | 93% |
| 2nd pts | 11/15 | 6/8 |
| %2nd pts | 73% | 75% |
Delaney made 7 aces . Watt fired 6 aces . Delaney won 91% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 73% of the points. On the other side, Watt won 93% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 75% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Delaney | Watt |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/10 |
| % Converted | 67% | 40% |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Delaney broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Delaney very solid his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Watt broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Watt was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Delaney | |||
| Q1 Delaney |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 54-32 | 54-32 | |
| Total points | 86 | 86 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 23/38 | 23/38 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 21/23 | 21/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 91% | 91% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/15 | 11/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 73% | 73% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Watt | |||
| Q1 Brumm |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 64-34 | 64-34 | |
| Total points | 98 | 98 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 28/36 | 28/36 | |
| % 1st in | 78% | 78% | |
| 1st pts | 26/28 | 26/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 93% | 93% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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