Lucas Pouille vanquishes Yoshihito Nishioka 6-1 6-2 in the 2nd round in Tokyo on Wednesday after playing a superlative match to square off with Novak Djokovic in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Lucas was too good to drop just 1 game before breaking the Japanese 2 times and win the set 6-1.
Nishioka lost the plot in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).
2nd set.
Lucas in this set didn’t concede much to the Japanese and eventually he won 6-2 after breaking the Japanese in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Nishioka was completely wiped out in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).
Statistics
After this encounter, the head to head between Pouille and Nishioka is 2-0 for Lucas.
Next Match: Lucas Pouille vs. Novak Djokovic – stats
Pouille will face Djokovic in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Lucas Pouille and Novak Djokovic clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Djokovic won 7-62 6-1 in the quarter in Cincinnati back in August 2019.
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Radu AlbotAlbot (6-72 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Go SoedaSoeda (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Lucas PouillePouille – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Gilles SimonSimon (7-6(4) 7-6(2)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- David GoffinGoffin – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Taro DanielDaniel (1-0) – See H2H details
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Lucas PouillePouille (0-1) – See H2H details
- Hyeon ChungChung – Marin CilicCilic (0-3) – See H2H details
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Gilles SimonSimon (0-0) – See H2H details
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – John MillmanMillman (0-0) – See H2H details
