Daniil Medvedev and Kei Nishikori will face off in the Round Robin of the the ATP Cup for the 5th time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 7 pm on John Cain Arena. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Daniil Medvedev who should win in 2 sets.
Daniil Medvedev -> 1.176
Kei Nishikori -> 5.2
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Prediction and head to head Daniil Medvedev vs. Kei Nishikori
This will be the 5th time that Daniil Medvedev and Kei Nishikori play each other. The head to head is 2-2 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Nishikori won 6-4 3-6 6-2 in the final in Brisbane back in 2019.
Daniil Medvedev
Ranked no. 4 (career high), Daniil reached the final after defeating Diego Sebastian Schwartzman 7-5 6-3.
In the previous match, Medvedev had a good straight sets win against Schwartzman (7-5 6-3). During the match Medvedev and Schwartzman scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 4 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match.
Regarding the service games, Medvedev couldn’t to score even 1 ace in the encounter and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Daniil Medvedev conceded no breaks for the entire match to put NAN% of his first serves in, win NAN% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and NAN% (/) on the 2nd serve.
Medvedev has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 68% of his matches (324-153). 1-0 on hard in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Medvedev has a 127-51 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Russian has a 1-0 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.Daniil lost in the semifinal to Novak Djokovic.
Kei Nishikori
Ranked no. 41, Nishikori will start his run in the ATP Cup after he played his last match at the Roland Garros where he lost 6-4 2-6 7-6(7) 4-6 6-2 to Travaglia in the 2nd round on the 30th of September.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
In terms of his career, The Japanese has an overall 538-244 record. He has a positive 264-122 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in ATP Cup
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – John MillmanMillman (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Dominic ThiemThiem (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (4-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dennis NovakNovak – Fabio FogniniFognini (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Milos RaonicRaonic – Dusan LajovicLajovic (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrey RublevRublev – Guido PellaPella (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Benoit PairePaire (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Milos RaonicRaonic (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Kei NishikoriNishikori (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey RublevRublev – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Gael MonfilsMonfils (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (5-1) – H2H and prediction
- Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis – John MillmanMillman (0-1) – H2H and prediction