Alexander Bublik and Yoshihito Nishioka will square off in the quarter of the Singapore Tennis Open for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 8:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Bublik who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alexander Bublik is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Bublik -> 1.7
Yoshihito Nishioka -> 2.26

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Prediction and head to head Alexander Bublik vs. Yoshihito Nishioka

This will be the 3rd time that Alexander Bublik and Yoshihito Nishioka play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Bublik and Nishioka (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they squared off, Bublik won 6-3 6-2 in the qualifications in Shanghai back in 2019.

Alexander Bublik

Ranked no. 46, the Kazakhstani got to the quarter after beating Altug Celikbilek 6-2 6-2.

In the 2nd round, Bublik had a good straight sets win against Celikbilek (6-2 6-2). During the match Bublik scored 53 points vs Celikbilek’s 37. Bublik was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about the service games, Bublik bagged 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alexander Bublik was exceptionally effective on serve to win 80% (24/30) of his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Kazakhstani broke Celikbilek 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Bublik has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 60% of his matches (242-158). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Bublik has a 66-37 record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.

The Kazakhstani’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Antalya.

Alexander has a 7-3 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Singapore

Alexander has never competed in this tournament before.

Singapore
Bublik's Record

Yoshihito Nishioka

Ranked no. 61, Nishioka reached the quarter after beating Michael Mmoh 6-2 3-6 6-3 and Maxime Cressy 6-4 6-2.

In the 2nd round, Nishioka had a good straight sets win against Cressy (6-4 6-2). During the match Nishioka scored 69 points vs Cressy’s 57. Yoshihito was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about serving, Nishioka couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yoshihito Nishioka conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Nishioka put 79% of his first serves in, winning 69% (29/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 82% (9/11) on the 2nd serve. Nishioka broke Cressy 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Yoshihito has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

Nishioka has a 2-3 win-loss record in 2021, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Singapore
Nishioka's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Bublik Nishioka
Match played 1 2
Tot Set 2 5
Tot Games 16 44
Pts 53-37 156-134
Total Points 90 290
Winners 24 68
%Winners 45% 44%

Bublik played 1 match while Nishioka competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Yoshihito Nishioka lost 1 set while Alexander Bublik hasn’t dropped a set so far. Bublik has played 3 set(s) less than Nishioka (2 vs 5). Therefore, Bublik played 28 games less than Nishioka. Alexander scored 24 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Nishioka bagged 68 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve Bublik Nishioka
Aces 10 1
Avg per match 10 0.5
1st in 30/44 97/128
%1st in 68% 76%
1st pts 24/30 68/97
%1st pts 80% 70%
2nd pts 9/14 23/31
%2nd pts 64% 74%

Bublik fired 10 aces . Nishioka bagged 1 ace (0.5 per match). Bublik won 80% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Nishioka won 70% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 74% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Bublik Nishioka
Won 4 6
Converted 4/6 6/19
% Converted 67% 32%
Conceded 2 3
Saved 2 2
% Saved 100% 67%
Times Broken 0 1

The Kazakhstani broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Alexander extremely effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 2 break points. The Japanese broke his opponents 6 times with a 32% conversion rate. Yoshihito conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Bublik
R2
Celikbilek
Total
Score 6-2 6-2
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 16 16
pts 53-37 53-37
Total points 90 90
Winners 24 24
%Winners 45% 45%
SERVE
Aces 10 10
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 30/44 30/44
% 1st in 68% 68%
1st pts 24/30 24/30
% 1st pts 80% 80%
2nd pts 9/14 9/14
% 2nd pts 64% 64%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/6 4/6
Converted % 67% 67%
Conceded 2 2
Saved 2/2 2
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0
Nishioka
R1
Mmoh
R2
Cressy
Total
Score 6-2 3-6 6-3 6-4 6-2
Tot Set 3 2 5
Tot Games 26 18 44
pts 87-77 69-57 156-134
Total points 164 126 290
Winners 39 29 68
%Winners 45% 42% 44%
SERVE
Aces 1 0 1
Double Faults 1 0 1
1st in 55/75 42/53 97/128
% 1st in 73% 79% 76%
1st pts 39/55 29/42 68/97
% 1st pts 71% 69% 70%
2nd pts 14/20 9/11 23/31
% 2nd pts 70% 82% 74%
Breaks
Won 3 3 6
Converted 3/10 3/9 6/19
Converted % 30% 33% 32%
Conceded 2 1 3
Saved 1/2 1/1 2
Saved % 50% 100% 150%
Times Broken 1 0 1

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