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.
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.
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).
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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