Alexander Blockx and Yosuke Watanuki will square off in the 1st round of the Birmingham Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 3. 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 -> 1.86
Alexander Blockx -> 1.86
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Blockx vs. Yosuke Watanuki
This will be the 3rd time that Alexander Blockx and Yosuke Watanuki clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Blockx and Watanuki (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they competed against each other, Blockx won 6-2 3-6 7-6(6) in the quarter in the Kobe Challenger back in 2024.
Alexander Blockx
15 - 12win/loss
140
140
LLWWLLLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-14 | 2-3 | 4-4 | 9-5 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 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. 143 (career-high), Alexander will start his run in the Birmingham Challenger after he played his last match at the Roland Garros where he lost 4-6 6-4 6-3 to Gea in the qualifications on the 20th of May.
Alexander has an aggregate 15-12 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on grass.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Oeiras 3 Challenger where he overcame Liam Draxl in the final 7-5 6-1.
Talking about his overall career, Alexander has an overall 89-58 record. He has a flat 0-0 record on grass.
Previously in the Birmingham Challenger
Alexander has never competed in this tournament before.
Yosuke Watanuki
16 - 10win/loss
182
72
LLLWWWLWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-13 | 13-9 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 183, the Japanese reached the 1st round after beating Alastair Gray 6-4 6-7(3) 6-1 and Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg 7-6(3) 4-6 6-1.
In the qualifications, Yousuke defeated Gueymard Wayenburg (7-63 4-6 6-1). During the match Watanuki scored 102 points vs Gueymard Wayenburg’s 84. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about serving, Watanuki fired 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Yosuke Watanuki lost the serve 4 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Watanuki put 65% of his first serves in, winning 70% (39/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the 2nd serve. Watanuki broke Gueymard Wayenburg 5 times after converting 38% of his break points (5/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Yousuke’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Gwangju Challenger.
Yousuke has a compiled 16-10 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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