Seita Watanabe and Shintaro Imai have met 1 time since 2019; Shintaro Imai leads 1–0. Their most recent meeting: Shintaro Imai won at Kobe (2019).
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Watanabe
🪃 Counterpuncher
Imai
🪃 Counterpuncher
Matchup analysis
Both Seita Watanabe and Shintaro Imai are 🪃 Counterpuncher types. Mirror matchups usually come down to execution, fitness, and surface fit — across 4,672 matches in our dataset the historical split is about even.
1 career meeting, newest first
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Watanabe | Imai |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | - | 4–1 |
| Avg odds | - | 1.31 |
| ROI % | - | +7.8% |
| Units P/L | - | +0.39u |
Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.
Last five matches per player
Samuele Pieri
Rwanda Challenger · 1st Round Qualifying
Mar 1
Takuya Kumasaka
Suzhou · 1st Round Qualifying
Oct 19
Ramkumar Ramanathan
Guangzhou (Huangpu) · 2nd Round Qualifying
Sep 8
James Watt
Zhangjiagang · 1st Round Qualifying
Aug 24
Cannon Kingsley
San Luis Potosi · 1st Round Qualifying
Apr 13
Paulo Andre Saraiva Dos Santos
Concepcion · 1st Round Qualifying
Mar 23
Conner Huertas del Pino
Asuncion · 1st Round Qualifying
Mar 16
Kilian Feldbausch
Santiago · 1st Round Qualifying
Mar 9
Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong
Futures 2026 ·
Jun 18
Tianhui Zhang
Futures 2026 ·
Jun 16
Uisung Park
Futures 2026 ·
Jun 9
Ye Chen
Futures 2026 ·
May 30
Kai-I Wang
Futures 2026 ·
May 27
Yan Cheng Chen
M15 Luan · Semifinals
May 25
Fanming Meng
M15 Luan · Round of 16
May 25
Lachlan Mcfadzean
M15 Luan · Quarterfinals
May 25
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 4–28 matches
| Metric | Watanabe | Imai |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 0% | 64% |
| Sets won | 11% | 65% |
| Games won | 40% | 53% |
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Watanabe | Imai |
|---|---|---|
| ATP Challenger Tour | 0 | 1 |
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Watanabe | Imai |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 0 | 1 |
