Holger Rune overcomes Kei Nishikori 3-6 6-2 7-5 in the quarter in Tokyo on Sunday. Rune is going to play against Arthur Fils in the semifinal. The battle lasted 2 hours and 16 minutes.
Rune added to his prize money $ 47,690 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 97,510 until now in this competition. If he wins the next match, the Dane will add $ 85,440 to his earnings to get in total $ 182,950.
Highlights Holger Rune vs. Kei Nishikori Japan Open Tennis Championships – Tokyo
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:16
At the end of the match, Rune scored 94 points vs. Nishikori’s 88.
Rune
The Dane won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points after he converted only 44% (4/9) of the procured opportunities.
Nishikori
On the other side, the Japanese was far from perfect in converting his break points (only 25% – 2/8). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Rune and Nishikori is 1-0 for Holger.
Draw and next match H2H: Holger Rune vs. Arthur Fils – stats
Rune will play Fils in the semifinal.
This will be the 3rd time that Holger Rune and Arthur Fils play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Rune and Fils (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Fils won 6-4 4-1 ret. in the quarter in Hamburg back in July 2024.
Live score progression and stats
Rune had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Kei Nishikori in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That break was crucial for Kei to win the set (6-3) as no one dropped a serve anymore.
Nishikori was perfect in converting all his break points in the 2nd (1-0 30-40), the 8th (5-2 40-A) and the 10th game (6-2 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, the Japanese didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 62 points. Kei was the one to win the set after conquering 8 points more than Rune (35-27). The Japanese lost 5 points on serve (21-5). Regarding the other side of the net, Rune conceded 14 points on serve (22-14).
The Dane in this set was in much better shape than Kei and finally he won 6-2 after breaking Nishikori in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
The Dane failed to serve out the set when leading 6-2 to be broken at 0.
Nishikori was powerless in the last 5 games of the set when the game count went from 2-2 to 6-2.
Holger converted 33% of his break points (2/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 6th (3-2 15-40 and 30-40) and the 8th game (5-2 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, the Dane didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 47 points. Holger conquered the set after winning 13 more points than the Japanese (30-17). The Dane was astonishing on serve to drop just 1 point during his serving games (16-1). on the other side of the court, the Japanese conceded 14 points on serve (16-14).
Rune won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 7th (3-4) game, The Dane broke back in the 10th (5-5) and in the 12th game to conquer the set 7-5.
Kei was powerless in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 3-5 to 7-5.
They contested 73 points. This was a hard-fought set and finally Rune won barely 1 point more than Nishikori (37-36). The Dane lost 15 points on serve (23-15). on the other side of the net, Kei conceded 14 points on serve (21-14).
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Arthur FilsFils – Ben SheltonShelton (7-5 6-75 7-62)
- Holger RuneRune – Kei NishikoriNishikori (3-6 6-2 7-5)
- Tomas MachacMachac – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (7-62 6-3)
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Jack DraperDraper (7-5 2-1 ret.)
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