Yosuke Watanuki and Frederico Ferreira Silva will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Kobe Challenger for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, 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 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yosuke Watanuki is the pick to win this match.
Yosuke Watanuki -> 1.65
Frederico Ferreira Silva -> 2.08

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Prediction and head to head Yosuke Watanuki vs. Frederico Ferreira Silva

This will be the 4^th time that Yosuke Watanuki and Frederico Ferreira Silva face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Watanuki (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they fought against each other, Watanuki won 6-2 6-2 in the final in the Yokkaichi Challenger back in 2022.

Yosuke Watanuki

Ranked no. 182, the Japanese got to the 2^nd round after beating Kaylan Bigun 6-4 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Yousuke had a good straight sets win against Bigun (6-4 6-2). During the match, Watanuki scored 70 points vs Bigun’s 56. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Regarding the service games, Watanuki recorded 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Yosuke Watanuki conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 5 break points. Furthermore, Watanuki put 73% of his first serves in, winning 73% (36/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. Yousuke broke Bigun 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).

Watanuki has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (252-167). 2-1 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Watanuki has a composed 57-25 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

Watanuki’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Gwangju Challenger.

Yousuke has a composed 27-24 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Kobe Challenger

Frederico Ferreira Silva

Ranked no. 241, Frederico got to the 2^nd round after beating Maxim Zhukov 7-6(1) 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Frederico had a good straight sets win against Zhukov (7-6¹ 6-2). During the match Ferreira Silva scored 75 points vs Zhukov’s 53. Ferreira Silva was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about serving, Ferreira Silva bagged 7 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Frederico Ferreira Silva was pretty effective on serve to win 81% (30/37) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Portuguese broke Zhukov 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

The Portuguese’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio.

Frederico has a compiled 36-22 win-loss record in 2025, 4-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Kobe Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2022. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Watanuki	Ferreira Silva
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	21
Pts	70-56	75-53
Total Points	126	128
Winners	36	30
%Winners	51%	40%

Both Watanuki and Ferreira Silva played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Watanuki and Ferreira Silva have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Watanuki played 3 games less than Ferreira Silva. The Japanese scored 36 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, The Portuguese blasted 30 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Watanuki	Ferreira Silva
Aces	5	7
Avg per match	5	7
1st in	49/67	37/53
%1st in	73%	70%
1st pts	36/49	30/37
%1st pts	73%	81%
2nd pts	8/18	11/16
%2nd pts	44%	69%

Watanuki recorded 5 aces . Ferreira Silva struck 7 aces . Watanuki won 73% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Ferreira Silva won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Watanuki	Ferreira Silva
Won	3	3
Converted	3/4	3/9
% Converted	75%	33%
Conceded	5	2
Saved	5	1
% Saved	100%	50%
Times Broken	0	1

Yousuke broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Watanuki had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 5 break points. The Portuguese broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Frederico conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Watanuki
	R1 Bigun	Total
Score	6-4 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	70-56	70-56
Total points	126	126
Winners	36	36
%Winners	51%	51%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	49/67	49/67
% 1st in	73%	73%
1st pts	36/49	36/49
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	8/18	8/18
% 2nd pts	44%	44%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/4	3/4
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	5/5	5
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Ferreira Silva
	R1 Zhukov	Total
Score	7-61 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	75-53	75-53
Total points	128	128
Winners	30	30
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	37/53	37/53
% 1st in	70%	70%
1st pts	30/37	30/37
% 1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	11/16	11/16
% 2nd pts	69%	69%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/9	3/9
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	1/2	1
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger

• Hynek BartonBarton – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (6-7⁸ 6-4 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Renta TokudaTokuda – Ryotaro TaguchiTaguchi (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Maximus JonesJones – Mitsuki Wei Kang LeongWei Kang Leong (7-6⁶ 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Jason JungJung (1-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Maxim ZhukovZhukov (7-6¹ 6-2) – See score progression
• Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-7¹ 6-4 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Kaylan BigunBigun (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Garrett JohnsJohns (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Elias YmerYmer – Ryan PenistonPeniston (6-2 6-7⁴ 1-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Hugo GrenierGrenier – Igor Ribeiro MarcondesRibeiro Marcondes (6-2 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Rei SakamotoSakamoto – Max BasingBasing (7-6⁶ 6-7⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Hyeon ChungChung – Ryuki MatsudaMatsuda (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Garrett JohnsJohns (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Jason JungJung (1-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Elias YmerYmer – Renta TokudaTokuda (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Hugo GrenierGrenier (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Hyeon ChungChung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-0) – H2H and prediction