James Watt and Leo Vithoontien will square off in the 1st round of the Noumea Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT BUDGET. 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 James Watt who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, James Watt is the pick to win this match.
James Watt -> 1.6
Leo Vithoontien -> 2.16
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Prediction and head to head James Watt vs. Leo Vithoontien
There is no head to head record between James Watt and Leo Vithoontien since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
James Watt
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8-10 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 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. 705, James got to the 1st round after beating Daisuke Sumizawa 6-3 6-4 and Shunsuke Nakagawa 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, James had a good straight sets win against Nakagawa (6-3 6-4). During the match, Watt scored 69 points vs Nakagawa’s 53. Watt was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Regarding the service games, Watt struck 6 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults. James Watt was quite efficient on serve to win 77% (34/44) of his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Kiwi broke Nakagawa twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Kiwi started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Watt has a winning win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 52% of his matches (60-55). 2-0 on hard in 2026. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Watt has an aggregate43-46 match record in the last 5 years on hard.
James has an overall 2-0 win-loss record in 2026, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Noumea Challenger
Watt has never competed in this tournament before.
Leo Vithoontien
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 15-19 | 12-16 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 26-31 | 22-24 | 2-5 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-33 | 21-23 | 7-4 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-25 | 24-16 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-11 | 13-8 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 721, the Japanese got to the 1st round after beating Jalane Salaun-Ouillemon 6-4 7-6(4) and Jacob Bradshaw 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, Vithoontien had a good straight sets win against Bradshaw (6-2 6-3). During the match Vithoontien scored 54 points vs Bradshaw’s 36. Leo was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Vithoontien bagged 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Leo Vithoontien was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Leo broke Bradshaw 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
The Japanese has a composed 2-0 win-loss record in 2026, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Watt | Vithoontien |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 38 | 40 |
| Pts | 126-96 | 135-109 |
| Total Points | 222 | 244 |
| Winners | 67 | 56 |
| %Winners | 53% | 41% |
Both Watt and Vithoontien played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Watt and Vithoontien have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Watt played 2 games less than Vithoontien. Watt scored 67 winners (53% of the total points). On the other side, Leo bagged 56 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Watt | Vithoontien |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 16 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 5 |
| 1st in | 84/111 | 73/109 |
| %1st in | 76% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 67/84 | 56/73 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 15/27 | 20/36 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 56% |
Watt fired 16 aces (8 per match). Vithoontien managed to score 10 aces (5 per match). Watt won 80% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Vithoontien won 77% of the points on 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 | Watt | Vithoontien |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 8 |
| Converted | 4/11 | 8/17 |
| % Converted | 36% | 47% |
| Conceded | 0 | 6 |
| Saved | 0 | 3 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
The Kiwi broke his opponents 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Kiwi very solid his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Japanese broke his opponents 8 times with a 47% conversion rate. Vithoontien conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Watt | ||||
| Q1 Sumizawa |
Q3 Nakagawa |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | 38 | |
| pts | 57-43 | 69-53 | 126-96 | |
| Total points | 100 | 122 | 222 | |
| Winners | 33 | 34 | 67 | |
| %Winners | 58% | 49% | 53% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 10 | 6 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 40/52 | 44/59 | 84/111 | |
| % 1st in | 77% | 75% | 76% | |
| 1st pts | 33/40 | 34/44 | 67/84 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 77% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/12 | 8/15 | 15/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 53% | 56% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/7 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 29% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Vithoontien | ||||
| Q1 Salaun-Ouillemon |
Q3 Bradshaw |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-64 | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 17 | 40 | |
| pts | 81-73 | 54-36 | 135-109 | |
| Total points | 154 | 90 | 244 | |
| Winners | 34 | 22 | 56 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 4 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 47/67 | 26/42 | 73/109 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 62% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 34/47 | 22/26 | 56/73 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 85% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/20 | 11/16 | 20/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 69% | 56% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/6 | 8/17 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 67% | 47% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| Saved | 2/5 | 1/1 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 40% | 100% | 70% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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