Patrick Maloney and James Watt will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Newport Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 3. 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 Patrick Maloney who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Patrick Maloney is the pick to win this match.
Patrick Maloney -> 1.43
James Watt -> 2.66

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Prediction and head to head Patrick Maloney vs. James Watt

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

Patrick Maloney

Ranked no. 325 (career-high), Maloney reached the 2^nd round after beating James Duckworth 6-2 7-6(5).

In the 1^st round, Maloney had a good straight sets win against Duckworth (6-2 7-6⁵). During the match, Maloney scored 74 points vs Duckworth’s 62. Maloney was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Regarding the service games, Maloney bagged 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Patrick Maloney was very effective on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Maloney broke Duckworth 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

Maloney has a solid win-loss record in the last 4 years having won 65% of his matches (99-53). 1-0 on grass in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Maloney has a composed1-0 match record in the last 4 years on grass.

Maloney’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Ithaca and M15 Sherbrooke.

The American has a composed 32-14 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Newport Challenger

Patrick has never competed in this tournament before.

James Watt

Ranked no. 722, the Kiwi got to the 2^nd round after defeating Henry Barrett 6-1 6-2, Oscar Weightman 6-4 6-2 and Tristan Mccormick 7-6(5) 7-6(4).

In the 1^st round, James had a good straight sets win against Mccormick (7-6⁵ 7-6⁴). During the match Watt scored 84 points vs Mccormick’s 72. Watt was quite aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Talking about serving, Watt struck 12 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, James Watt was exceptionally effective on serve to win 84% (36/43) of his 1st serve and 73% (22/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Kiwi broke Mccormick once after converting 20% of his break points (1/5).

The Kiwi has a compiled 9-12 win-loss record in 2025, 2-3 on grass (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Maloney	Watt
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	2	4
Tot Games	21	41
Pts	74-62	139-95
Total Points	136	234
Winners	28	62
%Winners	38%	45%

Maloney played 1 match while Watt competed in 2 matches. Watt started his run from the qualifications while Maloney had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Maloney has played 2 set(s) less than Watt (2 vs 4). Therefore, Maloney played 20 games less than Watt. The American scored 28 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Kiwi managed to score 62 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Maloney	Watt
Aces	4	17
Avg per match	4	8.5
1st in	36/61	73/110
%1st in	59%	66%
1st pts	28/36	62/73
%1st pts	78%	85%
2nd pts	14/25	28/37
%2nd pts	56%	76%

Maloney fired 4 aces . Watt managed to score 17 aces (8.5 per match). Maloney won 78% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Watt won 85% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 76% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Maloney	Watt
Won	3	5
Converted	3/9	5/13
% Converted	33%	38%
Conceded	4	2
Saved	3	1
% Saved	75%	50%
Times Broken	1	1

Maloney broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Maloney surrendered his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. James broke his opponents 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. James conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Maloney
	R1 Duckworth	Total
Score	6-2 7-65
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	74-62	74-62
Total points	136	136
Winners	28	28
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	36/61	36/61
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	28/36	28/36
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	14/25	14/25
% 2nd pts	56%	56%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/9	3/9
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

Watt
	Q1 Barrett	Q3 Weightman	R1 Mccormick	Total
Score	6-1 6-2	6-4 6-2	7-65 7-64
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	15	18	26	59
pts	55-23	–	84-72	139-95
Total points	78	0	156	234
Winners	26		36	62
%Winners	47%	0%	43%	45%
SERVE
Aces	5	0	12	17
Double Faults	1		2	3
1st in	30/37	/	43/73	73/110
% 1st in	81%	0%	59%	66%
1st pts	26/30	/	36/43	62/73
% 1st pts	87%	0%	84%	85%
2nd pts	6/7	/	22/30	28/37
% 2nd pts	86%	0%	73%	76%
Breaks
Won	4		1	5
Converted	4/8	/	1/5	5/13
Converted %	50%	0%	20%	38%
Conceded	0		2	2
Saved	0/0	0/	1/2	1
Saved %	–	–	50%	50%
Times Broken	0		1	1

Tennis Scores in Newport Challenger

• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Alex BoltBolt (7-6⁴ 7-6²) – See score progression
• Antoine GhibaudoGhibaudo – Patrick KypsonKypson (7-6¹ 7-5) – See score progression
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Daniel MilavskyMilavsky (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Quinn VandecasteeleVandecasteele (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Brandon HoltHolt – Murphy CassoneCassone (7-6³ 7-6¹) – See score progression
• James WattWatt – Tristan MccormickMccormick (7-6⁵ 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Tyler ZinkZink – Trey HilderbrandHilderbrand (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Bernard TomicTomic – Michael ZhengZheng (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• James McCabeMcCabe – Alafia AyeniAyeni (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Omar JasikaJasika (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Bernard TomicTomic – Michael ZhengZheng (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri – Evan ZhuZhu (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Aidan MayoMayo – Dan MartinMartin (7-5 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Stefan KozlovKozlov (6-1 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Patrick MaloneyMaloney – James DuckworthDuckworth (6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Quinn VandecasteeleVandecasteele (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Omar JasikaJasika (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Alex BoltBolt (7-6(4) 7-6(2)) – See score progression
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Daniel MilavskyMilavsky (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Bernard TomicTomic – Michael ZhengZheng (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Tyler ZinkZink – Trey HilderbrandHilderbrand (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Antoine GhibaudoGhibaudo – Patrick KypsonKypson (7-6(1) 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Mitchell KruegerKrueger – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Bernard TomicTomic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karl PolingPoling – Oscar WeightmanWeightman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Brandon HoltHolt – (2-5) – H2H and prediction
• Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tyler ZinkZink – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (0-0) – H2H and prediction