Filip Peliwo and James Watt will face off in the qualifications of the Shanghai Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 6:00 pm on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Watt who should win in 3 sets.
James Watt -> 1.83
Filip Peliwo -> 1.89
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Prediction and head to head Filip Peliwo vs. James Watt
There is no head to head record between Filip Peliwo and James Watt since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Filip Peliwo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52-32 | 47-28 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-29 | 26-20 | 1-2 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2023 | 40-37 | 35-25 | 4-8 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-31 | 40-21 | 6-6 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-20 | 14-10 | 9-8 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 535, the Canadian got to the qualifications after defeating Luca Castelnuovo 7-6(3) 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Canadian had a good straight sets win against Castelnuovo (7-63 6-3). During the match, Peliwo scored 72 points vs Castelnuovo’s 58. Filip was quite aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Regarding the service games, Peliwo fired 2 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. Overall, Filip Peliwo was very efficient on serve to win 78% (40/51) of his 1st serve and 53% (9/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Filip broke Castelnuovo twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Peliwo has winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (335-257). 35-19 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Peliwo has an aggregate 246-170 match record in the last years on hard.
Filip’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Luan and M15 Hillcrest.
Peliwo has a compiled 40-23 win-loss record in 2025, 35-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shanghai Challenger
James Watt
15 - 18win/loss
683
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. 584, James reached the qualifications after defeating Alexandr Binda 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, James had a good straight sets win against Binda (6-3 6-4). During the match Watt scored 67 points vs Binda’s 61. Watt was exceptionally aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Watt blasted 8 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. James Watt conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Watt put 76% of his first serves in, winning 69% (36/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the 2nd serve. Watt broke Binda twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
James has a compiled 15-18 win-loss record in 2025, 8-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Peliwo | Watt |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 19 |
| Pts | 72-58 | 67-61 |
| Total Points | 130 | 128 |
| Winners | 40 | 36 |
| %Winners | 56% | 54% |
Both Peliwo and Watt played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Peliwo and Watt have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Peliwo played 3 games more than Watt. The Canadian scored 40 winners (56% of the total points). On the other side, Watt fired 36 winners (54%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Peliwo | Watt |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 8 |
| 1st in | 51/68 | 52/68 |
| %1st in | 75% | 76% |
| 1st pts | 40/51 | 36/52 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 9/16 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 56% |
Peliwo bagged 2 aces . Watt fired 8 aces . Peliwo won 78% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Watt won 69% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Peliwo | Watt |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 2 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/5 |
| % Converted | 50% | 40% |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 50% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Filip broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. The Canadian conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Kiwi broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. The Kiwi was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Peliwo | |||
| Q1 Castelnuovo | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 72-58 | 72-58 | |
| Total points | 130 | 130 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 56% | 56% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 51/68 | 51/68 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 75% | |
| 1st pts | 40/51 | 40/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 9/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Watt | |||
| Q1 Binda | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 67-61 | 67-61 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 54% | 54% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 52/68 | 52/68 | |
| % 1st in | 76% | 76% | |
| 1st pts | 36/52 | 36/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/16 | 9/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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