James Watt and Oscar Weightman will play each other in the qualifications of the Newport Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Watt who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, James Watt is the pick to win this match.
James Watt -> 1.85
Oscar Weightman -> 1.87

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Prediction and head to head James Watt vs. Oscar Weightman

There is no head to head record between James Watt and Oscar Weightman since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

James Watt

Ranked no. 722, Watt got to the qualifications after defeating Henry Barrett 6-1 6-2.

In the qualifications, The Kiwi had a good straight sets win against Barrett (6-1 6-2). During the match, Watt scored 55 points vs Barrett’s 23. Watt was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Regarding the service games, Watt struck 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. James Watt was very efficient on serve to win 87% (26/30) of his 1st serve and 86% (6/7) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Watt broke Barrett 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Watt has a winning match record in the last 4 years having won 52% of his matches (50-46). 1-2 on grass in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Watt has a compiled11-4 record in the last 4 years on grass.

James has an aggregate 8-11 win-loss record in 2025, 1-2 on grass (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Newport Challenger

James has never competed in this tournament before.

Oscar Weightman

Currently unranked, Oscar got to the qualifications after beating Takeru Yuzuki 6-7(4) 6-1 7-6(3)

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In the qualifications against Yuzuki, The Brit recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7⁴ 6-1 7-6³). During the match Weightman scored 117 points vs Yuzuki’s 100. Weightman was exceptionally aggressive to blast 42 winners.

Talking about serving, Weightman struck 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Oscar Weightman was extremely efficient on serve to win 75% (42/56) of his 1st serve and 60% (24/40) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Oscar broke Yuzuki 4 times after converting 24% of his break points (4/17).

Oscar has an overall 1-2 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Watt	Weightman
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	15	33
Pts	55-23	117-100
Total Points	78	217
Winners	26	42
%Winners	47%	36%

Both Watt and Weightman played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Oscar Weightman lost 1 set while James Watt hasn’t conceded a set so far. Watt has played 1 set(s) less than Weightman (2 vs 3). Therefore, Watt played 18 games less than Weightman. James scored 26 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The Brit fired 42 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Watt	Weightman
Aces	5	8
Avg per match	5	8
1st in	30/37	56/96
%1st in	81%	58%
1st pts	26/30	42/56
%1st pts	87%	75%
2nd pts	6/7	24/40
%2nd pts	86%	60%

Watt managed to score 5 aces . Weightman managed to score 8 aces . Watt won 87% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 86% of the points. On the other side, Weightman won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Watt	Weightman
Won	4	4
Converted	4/8	4/17
% Converted	50%	24%
Conceded	0	2
Saved	0	0
% Saved	0%	0%
Times Broken	0	2

Watt broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. James very solid his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Brit broke his opponent 4 times with a 24% conversion rate. Weightman conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

Watt
	Q1 Barrett	Total
Score	6-1 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	55-23	55-23
Total points	78	78
Winners	26	26
%Winners	47%	47%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	30/37	30/37
% 1st in	81%	81%
1st pts	26/30	26/30
% 1st pts	87%	87%
2nd pts	6/7	6/7
% 2nd pts	86%	86%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/8	4/8
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Weightman
	Q1 Yuzuki	Total
Score	6-74 6-1 7-63
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	33	33
pts	117-100	117-100
Total points	217	217
Winners	42	42
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	8	8
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	56/96	56/96
% 1st in	58%	58%
1st pts	42/56	42/56
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	24/40	24/40
% 2nd pts	60%	60%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/17	4/17
Converted %	24%	24%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	0/2	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	2	2

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