Frances Tiafoe and Yosuke Watanuki will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the National Bank Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on MOTOROLA RAZR GRANDSTAND COURT. 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 Frances Tiafoe who should win in 2 sets.
Frances Tiafoe -> 1.28
Yosuke Watanuki -> 3.68
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Prediction and head to head Frances Tiafoe vs. Yosuke Watanuki
This will be the 3rd time that Frances Tiafoe and Yosuke Watanuki fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Tiafoe and Watanuki (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Watanuki won 6-4 7-6(6) in the 3rd round in Indian wells back in March 2025.
Highlights Yosuke Watanuki vs Frances Tiafoe – Indian wells 09-March-2025
Frances Tiafoe
20 - 16win/loss
30
10
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-23 | 13-13 | 11-7 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-27 | 21-13 | 5-6 | 4-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-21 | 21-10 | 8-4 | 4-5 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-25 | 19-11 | 8-6 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-27 | 19-13 | 4-7 | 10-4 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 12, Tiafoe will start his run in Montreal after he played his last match in Washington where he lost 7-6(2) 6-4 to Shelton in the quarter on the 25th of July.
Tiafoe has a composed 20-16 win-loss record in 2025, 7-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Houston.
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 394-276 record. He has a positive 186-128 record on hard.
Previously in Montreal
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2018 and 2021. See his history.
Yosuke Watanuki
25 - 16win/loss
159
72
| 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 |
Ranked no. 158, Watanuki got to the 2nd round after defeating Dalibor Svrcina 7-6(2) 1-6 6-4 and Daniel Altmaier 3-6 6-1 6-4.
In the 1st round against Altmaier, Watanuki recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-1 6-4). During the match Watanuki scored 79 points vs Altmaier’s 67. Yousuke was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Watanuki fired 8 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Yosuke Watanuki was extremely efficient on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 63% (27/43) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Yousuke broke Altmaier 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Yousuke’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Gwangju Challenger.
Watanuki has a composed 25-16 win-loss record in 2025, 17-10 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in Montreal
Yousuke has never competed in this tournament before.
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Adam WaltonWalton (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Tomas MachacMachac (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Casper RuudRuud (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey RublevRublev – Hugo GastonGaston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Facundo BagnisBagnis (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan BoyerBoyer – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco ComesanaComesana – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – (1-1) – H2H and prediction