Frances Tiafoe prevails over Kei Nishikori 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in Tokyo on Thursday. Tiafoe is going to play against Arthur Fils in the 2nd round. His best achievement in this competition was reaching the final in 2022. Here you can see his history at this event.
Frances added to his prize money $ 15,985 after winning this match. He has already won $ 34,255 after this win. If he wins the next match, the American will add $ 29,915 to his earnings to get in total $ 64,170 in total.
Highlights Frances Tiafoe vs. Kei Nishikori Japan Open Tennis Championships – Tokyo
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:14
After this encounter, the head to head between Tiafoe and Nishikori is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Frances Tiafoe vs. Arthur Fils – stats
Tiafoe will play Fils in the 2nd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Frances Tiafoe and Arthur Fils fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Fils (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Fils won 6-3 1-6 6-0 in the final in Cincinnati back in August 2026.
Live score progression and stats
Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Finally, Tiafoe won the breaker at 1-0.
This was the tiebreak sequence:
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. Furthermore, on the other side, Tiafoe didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 0 points. This set was so close that, The American won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. The American was flawless on serve to drop not even a single point during his serving games (0-0). In addition, on the other side, Nishikori conceded 0 points on serve (0-0).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the American clinched in the 9th game (5-4) prior to finally conquering the set (6-4).
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. Moreover, on the other side, Tiafoe didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 6 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Tiafoe won just 2 points more than the Japanese (4-2). The American was extremely solid on serve to concede just 2 points (4-2). On the other side, Kei conceded 0 points on serve (0-0).
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Kei NishikoriNishikori (6-4 6-4)
- Jaime FariaFaria – Arthur FeryFery (6-4 3-6 6-4)
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Holger RuneRune (6-3 6-1)
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Zizou BergsBergs (6-3 6-7(3) 6-3)
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (4-6 6-3 6-4)
- Luciano DarderiDarderi – Casper RuudRuud (7-63 6-3)
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Taylor FritzFritz (6-77 6-4 6-3)
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (6-3 6-2)
- Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi – Rei SakamotoSakamoto (2-6 6-4 6-4)
- Valentin VacherotVacherot – Alexander BlockxBlockx (7-62 7-64)
- Arthur FilsFils – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (6-3 6-2)
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Tommy PaulPaul (6-1 6-2)
Upcoming matches
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Valentin VacherotVacherot – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Zizou BergsBergs (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
