Keegan Rice and James Watt will square off in the qualifications of the Granby Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 5:30 pm on COURT CENTRAL. 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 James Watt who should win in 3 sets.
James Watt -> 1.86
Keegan Rice -> 1.86
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Prediction and head to head Keegan Rice vs. James Watt
There is no head to head record between Keegan Rice and James Watt since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Keegan Rice
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-8 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 1-5 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Currently unranked, Keegan got to the qualifications after defeating Alvin Nicholas Tudorica 6-0 6-1.
In the qualifications, Keegan had a good straight sets win against Nicholas Tudorica (6-0 6-1). During the match, Rice scored 56 points vs Nicholas Tudorica’s 26. Rice was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Rice scored 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Keegan Rice was quite effective on serve to win 78% (25/32) of his 1st serve and 54% (7/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Keegan broke Nicholas Tudorica 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Rice has won exactly 50% of his matches (12-12) in the last 3 years. 11-4 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Rice has an overall11-9 win-loss record in the last 3 years on hard.
Keegan has a compiled 11-4 win-loss record in 2025, 11-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Granby Challenger
James Watt
12 - 13win/loss
691
569
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-20 | 9-13 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 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. 722, Watt got to the qualifications after beating Andre Ilagan 7-6(5) 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Kiwi had a good straight sets win against Ilagan (7-65 6-4). During the match Watt scored 74 points vs Ilagan’s 66. Watt was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Watt blasted 17 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. James Watt was pretty effective on serve to win 81% (35/43) of his 1st serve and 61% (17/28) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Kiwi broke Ilagan once after converting 20% of his break points (1/5).
James has a composed 11-13 win-loss record in 2025, 4-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Granby Challenger
The Kiwi has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Rice | Watt |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 23 |
| Pts | 56-26 | 74-66 |
| Total Points | 82 | 140 |
| Winners | 25 | 35 |
| %Winners | 45% | 47% |
Both Rice and Watt played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Rice and Watt have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Rice played 10 games less than Watt. Rice scored 25 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Watt fired 35 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Rice | Watt |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 17 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 17 |
| 1st in | 32/45 | 43/71 |
| %1st in | 71% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 25/32 | 35/43 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 7/13 | 17/28 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 61% |
Rice fired 6 aces . Watt managed to score 17 aces . Rice won 78% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Watt won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Rice | Watt |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 1 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 1/5 |
| % Converted | 56% | 20% |
| Conceded | 3 | 1 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Keegan broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Canadian extremely effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points. James broke his opponent once with a 20% conversion rate. Watt was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Rice | |||
| Q1 Nicholas | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 56-26 | 56-26 | |
| Total points | 82 | 82 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 32/45 | 32/45 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 25/32 | 25/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/13 | 7/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Watt | |||
| Q1 Ilagan | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 74-66 | 74-66 | |
| Total points | 140 | 140 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 17 | 17 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 43/71 | 43/71 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 35/43 | 35/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/28 | 17/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/5 | 1/5 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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