Yoshihito Nishioka and Hiroki Moriya will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Yokkaichi Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. 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 Yoshihito Nishioka who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yoshihito Nishioka is the pick to win this match.
Yoshihito Nishioka -> 1.12
Hiroki Moriya -> 5.5
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Prediction and head to head Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Hiroki Moriya
This will be the 4th time that Yoshihito Nishioka and Hiroki Moriya square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Nishioka (see full H2H stats), but Moriya leads 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Nishioka won 6-3 6-3 in the 1st round in the Toyota Challenger back in 2015.
Yoshihito Nishioka
28 - 24win/loss
70
24
LLWLWWWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-24 | 16-15 | 6-7 | 1-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-22 | 14-15 | 5-5 | 4-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-25 | 25-13 | 2-5 | 17-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-26 | 5-11 | 8-7 | 5-5 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-13 | 10-6 | 2-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 70, Nishioka will start his run in the Yokkaichi Challenger after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 2-4 ret. to Zhou in the 1st round on the 3rd of October.
Yoshihito has a compiled 28-24 win-loss record in 2024, 16-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title in Atlanta where he defeated Jordan Thompson in the final 4-6 7-6(2) 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, Yoshihito has an overall 422-272 record. He has a positive 237-149 record on hard.
Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger
Yoshihito has never competed in this tournament before.
Hiroki Moriya
38 - 31win/loss
380
143
WWLWWLWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-31 | 36-27 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-28 | 31-27 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-30 | 18-19 | 0-0 | 7-9 | 1-1 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 22-28 | 13-17 | 0-0 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2020 | 7-15 | 5-5 | 1-2 | 0-7 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 380, Moriya got to the 1st round after beating Alexander Merino 6-4 6-1 and Alafia Ayeni 7-6(5) 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Ayeni (7-65 6-1). During the match Moriya scored 84 points vs Ayeni’s 72. The Japanese was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Moriya scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Hiroki Moriya lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Moriya put 59% of his first serves in, winning 64% (30/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 61% (20/33) on the 2nd serve. Moriya broke Ayeni 3 times after converting 20% of his break points (3/15).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Hiroki started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 56% of the points he played.
The Japanese’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M25 Traralgon,M25 Takasaki and M25 Cairns.
Hiroki has a composed 38-31 win-loss record in 2024, 36-27 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Yokkaichi Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Kokoro IsomuraIsomura (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Omar JasikaJasika – Kris Van WykVan Wyk (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christoph NegrituNegritu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elias YmerYmer – Alexey ZakharovZakharov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi – (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin HassanHassan – Jakub PaulPaul (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Masamichi ImamuraImamura – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Alafia AyeniAyeni (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Philip HenningHenning – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
