Yosuke Watanuki and Oscar Weightman will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Newport Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on COURT 2. 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 Yosuke Watanuki who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yosuke Watanuki is the pick to win this match.
Yosuke Watanuki -> 1.044
Oscar Weightman -> 8.5

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Prediction and head to head Yosuke Watanuki vs. Oscar Weightman

There is no head to head record between Yosuke Watanuki and Oscar Weightman since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Yosuke Watanuki

Yosuke Watanuki

20 - 14win/loss

Hard
13-9
I Hard
1-1
Grass
6-4
Rank
159
High
72
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 31-24 18-18 0-0 6-1 7-5 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
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Ranked no. 177, the Japanese reached the 2nd round after defeating Omar Jasika 6-4 6-4.

In the 1st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Jasika (6-4 6-4). During the match, Watanuki scored 65 points vs Jasika’s 51. The Japanese was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about the service games, Watanuki fired 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Yosuke Watanuki was extremely efficient on serve to win 88% (21/24) of his 1st serve and 68% (19/28) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Jasika twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).

Watanuki has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (245-157). 6-4 on grass in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Watanuki has an overall 16-12 record in the last years on grass.

Watanuki’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Gwangju Challenger.

The Japanese has an overall 20-14 win-loss record in 2025, 6-4 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Newport Challenger

Yousuke has never competed in this tournament before.

Newport Challenger
Watanuki's Record

Oscar Weightman

Oscar Weightman

3 - 2win/loss

Hard
0-2
I Hard
0-0
Grass
3-0
Rank
786
High
603
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 12-5 7-3 0-0 0-0 3-1 2-1
2024 7-9 6-7 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-1
2023 7-16 7-13 0-0 0-1 0-2 0-0
2022 31-22 24-14 0-0 5-4 2-4 0-0
2021 16-12 10-6 0-3 6-3 0-0 0-0
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Currently unranked, Weightman reached the 2nd round after beating Takeru Yuzuki 6-7(4) 6-1 7-6(3), James Watt 6-4 6-2 and Karl Poling 7-6(5) 3-6 7-6(3).

In the 1st round, The Brit defeated Poling (7-65 3-6 7-63).During the match Weightman scored less points (1) than Poling. In fact, the world no. 177 won 104 points vs Poling’s. That means that Weightman was more focused during the important points. Oscar was exceptionally aggressive to blast 46 winners.

Talking about serving, Weightman managed to score 11 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Overall, Oscar Weightman was quite effective on serve to win 79% (46/58) of his 1st serve and 51% (30/59) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 4 times. Weightman was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Poling twice.

Oscar has an overall 3-2 win-loss record in 2025, 3-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Newport Challenger
Weightman's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Y.Watanuki
O.Weightman
1h:13
1h:13
Time on court​
!
6h:27
6h:27
1h:13
1h:13
Last match​
!
2h:38
2h:38
1
1
Match played
!
3
3
20
20
Games Played​
86
86
2
2
Set played​​
8
8
65
65
Total points​
285
285
65
65
Avg point​
95
95
21
21
Winners
111
111
21
21
Avg Winners​
37
37
32%
32%
Ratio winners
39%
39%
-- Serve --
5
5
Aces
21
21
5
5
Avg Aces
7
7
4
4
Double Faults
13
13
4
4
Avg Double Faults
4.3
4.3
21/24
21/24
1st won total​
111/148
111/148
!
88%
88%
1st won %
!
75%
75%
19/28
19/28
2nd won total​
65/118
65/118
!
68%
68%
2nd won %
55%
55%
-- Break Points --
2/9
2/9
BP won
11/26
11/26
2/9
2/9
Avg BP won
3.7/8.7
3.7/8.7
!
22%
22%
Won
42%
42%
0
0
Conceded
17
17
0
0
Avg Conceded
5.7
5.7
0
0
Broken
8
8
!
0
0
Avg Broken
2.7
2.7
0
0
Saved
9
9
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Watanuki Weightman
Match played 1 3
Tot Set 2 8
Tot Games 20 86
Pts 65-51 285-254
Total Points 116 539
Winners 21 111
%Winners 32% 39%

Watanuki played 1 match while Weightman competed in 3 matches. Weightman started his run from the qualifications while Watanuki had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Oscar Weightman dropped 2 sets while Yosuke Watanuki hasn’t conceded a set so far. Watanuki has played 6 set(s) less than Weightman (2 vs 8). Therefore, Watanuki played 66 games less than Weightman. The Japanese scored 21 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, The Brit struck 111 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve Watanuki Weightman
Aces 5 21
Avg per match 5 7
1st in 24/52 148/266
%1st in 46% 56%
1st pts 21/24 111/148
%1st pts 88% 75%
2nd pts 19/28 65/118
%2nd pts 68% 55%

Watanuki scored 5 aces . Weightman bagged 21 aces (7 per match). Watanuki won 88% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 68% 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 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Watanuki Weightman
Won 2 11
Converted 2/9 11/26
% Converted 22% 42%
Conceded 0 17
Saved 0 9
% Saved 0% 53%
Times Broken 0 8

The Japanese broke his opponent twice with a 22% conversion rate. Watanuki very solid his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Oscar broke his opponents 11 times with a 42% conversion rate. Weightman conceded his serve 8 times and he saved 53% of the break points that he conceded.

Watanuki
R1
Jasika		 Total
Score 6-4 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 20 20
pts 65-51 65-51
Total points 116 116
Winners 21 21
%Winners 32% 32%
SERVE
Aces 5 5
Double Faults 4 4
1st in 24/52 24/52
% 1st in 46% 46%
1st pts 21/24 21/24
% 1st pts 88% 88%
2nd pts 19/28 19/28
% 2nd pts 68% 68%
Breaks
Won 2 2
Converted 2/9 2/9
Converted % 22% 22%
Conceded 0 0
Saved 0/0 0
Saved % – 0%
Times Broken 0 0
Weightman
Q1
Yuzuki		 Q3
Watt		 R1
Poling		 Total
Score 6-74 6-1 7-63 6-4 6-2 7-65 3-6 7-63
Tot Set 3 2 3 8
Tot Games 33 18 35 86
pts 117-100 64-49 104-105 285-254
Total points 217 113 209 539
Winners 42 23 46 111
%Winners 36% 36% 44% 39%
SERVE
Aces 8 2 11 21
Double Faults 3 3 7 13
1st in 56/96 34/53 58/117 148/266
% 1st in 58% 64% 50% 56%
1st pts 42/56 23/34 46/58 111/148
% 1st pts 75% 68% 79% 75%
2nd pts 24/40 11/19 30/59 65/118
% 2nd pts 60% 58% 51% 55%
Breaks
Won 4 5 2 11
Converted 4/17 5/7 2/2 11/26
Converted % 24% 71% 100% 42%
Conceded 2 4 11 17
Saved 0/2 2/4 7/11 9
Saved % 0% 50% 64% 114%
Times Broken 2 2 4 8

Tennis Scores in Newport Challenger

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