Yoshihito Nishioka downs Maximilian Marterer 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in Hangzhou on Thursday. Nishioka will have to play Marin Cilic in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 16 minutes.
Yoshihito added to his prize money $ 6,830 after winning this match. He has already won $ 17,560 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Japanese will add $ 12,685 to his earnings to get in total $ 30,245 in total.
Highlights Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Maximilian Marterer Hangzhou Open – Hangzhou
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Nishioka scored 58 points vs. the German’s 37.
Nishioka
Yoshihito served extremely well to win 76% of the points (25/33) behind his first serve, and he won 76% points (13/17) on his second serve. Nishioka was great in converting all the break points (3/3).
Marterer
On the other side, the German wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Nishioka and Marterer is 2-0 for Yoshihito.
Draw and next match H2H: Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Marin Cilic – stats
Nishioka will take on Cilic in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Yoshihito Nishioka and Marin Cilic face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Cilic (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Cilic won 6-1 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in London back in 2018.
Live score progression and stats
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Yoshihito clinched in the 9th game (5-4) just before eventually conquering the set (6-4).
The German was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 3-4 to 6-4.
Yoshihito was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 8th game (4-4 0-40). On the other side, Yoshihito didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 56 points. The Japanese was the one to win the set after conquering 6 more points than Marterer (31-25). The Japanese conceded 5 points on serve (21-5). Regarding the other side of the net, Maximilian conceded 10 points on serve (20-10).
Nishioka in this set was more solid than the German and consequently he won 6-2 after breaking the German in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Marterer had no answers in the last 5 games of the set when the game count went from 1-2 to 6-2.
Nishioka was spot on in converting all his break points in the 4th (2-2 15-40) and the 7th game (4-2 0-40). On the other side, the Japanese didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 39 points. The Japanese won 15 points more than the German (27-12). Yoshihito dropped 7 points on serve (17-7). on the other side of the court, Maximilian conceded 10 points on serve (5-10).
Tennis Scores in Hangzhou
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- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Corentin MoutetMoutet (7-66 6-1)
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (2-6 7-66 6-2)
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (6-1 6-1)
- Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong – Yibing WuWu (6-3 ret.)
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Maximilian MartererMarterer (6-4 6-2)
- Mattia BellucciBellucci – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (6-4 6-0)
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – James McCabeMcCabe (6-4 6-4)
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Hugo GastonGaston (7-5 6-3)
- Marin CilicCilic – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (5-7 6-3 6-0)
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Luciano DarderiDarderi (6-3 6-4)
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Luca NardiNardi (6-0 6-2)
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