Kei Nishikori and Lorenzo Musetti will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 9 pm on Campo Centrale. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kei Nishikori who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Kei Nishikori is the pick to win this match.
Kei Nishikori -> 1.48
Lorenzo Musetti -> 2.73

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Prediction and head to head Kei Nishikori vs. Lorenzo Musetti

There is no head to head record between Kei Nishikori and Lorenzo Musetti since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Kei Nishikori

Ranked no. 35, Nishikori got to the 2^nd round after beating Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-4 7-6³.

In the 1^st round, Kei had a good straight sets win against Ramos-Vinolas (6-4 7-6³). During the match Nishikori scored 83 points vs Ramos-Vinolas’s 78. Kei was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Regarding the service games, Nishikori recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Kei Nishikori was pretty effective on serve to win 77% (33/43) of his 1st serve and 63% (22/35) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Nishikori broke Ramos-Vinolas once after converting 10% of his break points (1/10).

Nishikori has a a fantastic record in the last 10 years having won 71% of his matches (397-162). 1-1 on clay in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Nishikori has a 96-38 record in the last years on clay.

Nishikori has a 1-1 win-loss record in 2020, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Rome

Kei lost in the quarter to Diego Sebastian Schwartzman.

Lorenzo Musetti

Ranked no. 249 (career high), Lorenzo reached the 2^nd round after defeating Bernabe Zapata Miralles 7-6² 0-6 6-1, Leonardo Mayer 7-6⁴ 6-3, Giulio Zeppieri 6-1 5-7 6-3 and Stan Wawrinka 6-0 7-6².

In the 1^st round, Lorenzo had a good straight sets win against Wawrinka (6-0 7-6²). During the match Musetti scored 71 points vs Wawrinka’s 52. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Musetti scored 5 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Lorenzo Musetti lost the serve once. Furthermore, Musetti put 67% of his first serves in, winning 69% (25/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Wawrinka 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Musetti’s best result of the season was getting to the semi-finals in the Trieste Challenger.

Lorenzo has a 19-10 win-loss record in 2020, 10-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Rome

Musetti capitulated in the qualifications to Casper Ruud.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Nishikori played 1 match while Musetti competed in 4 matches. Musetti started his run from the qualifications while Nishikori had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Lorenzo Musetti conceded 2 sets while Kei Nishikori hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Nishikori has played 8 set(s) less than Musetti (2 vs 10). Therefore, Nishikori played 72 games less than Musetti. The Japanese scored 33 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Lorenzo made 117 winners (38%).

Serve Performance

Nishikori made 2 aces . Musetti recorded 15 aces (3.8 per match). Nishikori won 77% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Musetti won 69% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.

How they played the important points

Nishikori broke his opponent once with a 10% conversion rate. Nishikori extremely effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points. Musetti broke his opponents 16 times with a 64% conversion rate. Musetti conceded his serve 9 times and he saved 55% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

• 0Slam
• 12Main
• 8Chall
• 1Minor

• 0Slam
• 2Main
• 2Chall
• 2Minor

Kei
Nishikori

0:1

Lorenzo
Musetti

Rank

105

High

4

0Clay1

Rank

17

High

15

Win Loss

Nishikori

WWWWWLWWWL

Musetti

LLLWWLLWLW

2024 2023 2022

19 - 11

46 - 29

6-5

Hard

13-12

8-2

I Hard

3-4

5-3

Clay

18-10

0-1

Grass

12-3

Tennis Scores in Rome

• Marin CilicCilic – David GoffinGoffin (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Federico CoriaCoria (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jannik SinnerSinner – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-1 6-7⁹ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Borna CoricCoric (7-6² 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Rafael NadalNadal – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Milos RaonicRaonic – Dusan LajovicLajovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – John MillmanMillman (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Andrey RublevRublev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-3) – H2H and prediction
• Casper RuudRuud – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Gael MonfilsMonfils (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Kei NishikoriNishikori (0-0) – H2H and prediction

Nishikori

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