Kei Nishikori and Samuel Vincent Ruggeri will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Como Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kei Nishikori who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kei Nishikori is the pick to win this match.
Kei Nishikori -> 1.45
Samuel Vincent Ruggeri -> 2.62
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Prediction and head to head Kei Nishikori vs. Samuel Vincent Ruggeri
There is no head to head record between Kei Nishikori and Samuel Vincent Ruggeri since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Kei Nishikori
4 - 5win/loss
105
4
WWWWWLWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-11 | 7-5 | 5-3 | 8-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 10-3 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-17 | 15-9 | 7-4 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 222, Kei will start his run in the Como Challenger after he played his last match in Montreal where he lost 6-4 7-5 to Arnaldi in the quarter on the 10th of August.
Nishikori has a composed 4-5 win-loss record in 2024, 1-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Kei has an overall 574-268 record. He has a positive 136-62 record on clay.
Previously in the Como Challenger
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Samuel Vincent Ruggeri
42 - 26win/loss
255
252
LLWWLWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 47-32 | 12-6 | 26-20 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-29 | 25-11 | 22-14 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 55-28 | 29-10 | 26-18 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-24 | 18-13 | 15-9 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 272, Samuel will start his run in the Como Challenger after he played his last match in the Cordenons Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-1 to Giustino in the 2nd round on the 8th of August.
Vincent has a compiled 42-26 win-loss record in 2024, 26-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Samuel’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Milan Challenger.
In terms of his career, Vincent has an overall 181-107 record. He has a positive 89-59 record on clay.
Previously in the Como Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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LLWWLWLWWL Tennis Scores in Como Challenger
- Alex MolcanMolcan – Gustavo HeideHeide (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Dmitry PopkoPopko (6-2 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zsombor PirosZsombor – Gonzalo BuenoGonzalo (6-1 7-6(2)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Filip MisolicMisolic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Matheus Pucinelle De AlmeidaPucinelle De Almeida (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Remy BertolaBertola – Benoit PairePaire (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrew PaulsonPaulson – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
