Yoshihito Nishioka and Sasi Kumar Mukund will square off in the 2nd round of the Bendigo Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:00 pm on COURT 4.
Yoshihito Nishioka: results and record
Ranked no. 71, Yoshihito reached the 2nd round after beating Petros Tsitsipas 6-4 6-4 and Colin Sinclair 6-2 6-4.
Previous match vs. Colin Sinclair
In the 1st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Sinclair (6-2 6-4). During the match Nishioka scored 63 points vs. Sinclair’s 45. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Nishioka scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Yoshihito Nishioka was extremely effective on serve to win 77% (27/35) of his 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Nishioka broke Sinclair 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Nishioka winning performance
Nishioka has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 65% of his matches (958-522). 4-1 on hard in 2020 Talking about his performance on same surface of tournament, Nishioka has a 235-146 record in the last 10 years on hard.
Nishioka has a 4-1 win-loss record in 2020, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Bendigo Challenger
The Japanese didn’t play in the Bendigo Challenger in 2019.
Sasi Kumar Mukund: results and record
Ranked no. 272, Kumar Mukund will start his run in the Bendigo Challenger after he played his last match in Australian Open (Asia, Wildcard) where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Chung in the quarter the 6th of December.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
In terms of his career. Sasi has an overall 49-56 record. He has negative 35-39 record on hard
Last year in the Bendigo Challenger
Sasi didn’t compete in the Bendigo Challenger in 2019.
Draw
Prediction and head to head Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Sasi Kumar Mukund
There is no head to head record between Yoshihito Nishioka and Sasi Kumar Mukund since this will be the first time that they will face off at pro level.
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 -> 1.05
Sasi Kumar Mukund -> 11.00
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Tennis Scores in Bendigo Challenger
- Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera – Hugo NysNys (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Alexander CrnokrakCrnokrak – Hugo GastonGaston (6-4 7-62) – See score progression
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Markos KalovelonisKalovelonis (6-3 6-78 6-3) – See score progression
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Jai CorbettCorbett (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
- Calum PuttergillPuttergill – Marcelo ArevaloArevalo (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Maverick BanesBanes – Naoki TajimaTajima (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Konstantin KravchukKravchuk – Matias Franco DescotteFranco Descotte (0-0) – See H2H details
- Dayne KellyKelly – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-0) – See H2H details
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Calum PuttergillPuttergill (0-0) – See H2H details
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (0-0) – See H2H details
- Marcos GironGiron – Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis (0-0) – See H2H details
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (0-0) – See H2H details
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Liam CaruanaCaruana (0-0) – See H2H details
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Fajing SunSun (0-0) – See H2H details
- Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (0-0) – See H2H details
- Dane SweenySweeny – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (0-0) – See H2H details
- Harold MayotMayot – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – See H2H details
