Christian Garin and Kei Nishikori will face off in the 2nd round of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:30 pm on PISTA MANOLO SANTANA. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Christian Garin who should win in 3 sets.
Christian Garin -> 1.56
Kei Nishikori -> 2.49
Click here to see the updated quotes and live streaming (only selected countries - USA excluded).
Here where top tennis events are broadcasted or streamed online (ATP, WTA).
At the challenger level, there will be free live streaming on Challenger TV.
Prediction and head to head Christian Garin vs. Kei Nishikori
This will be the 2nd time that Christian Garin and Kei Nishikori fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Garin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Garin won 6-0 6-3 in the 1st round in Hamburg back in 2020.
Christian Garin
Ranked no. 22, Garin will start his run in Barcelona after he played his last match in Monte Carlo where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Tsitsipas in the 3rd round on the 15th of April.
Garin has a 6-4 win-loss record in 2021, 6-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title in in Santiago where he overcame Facundo Bagnis in the final 6-4 6-7(3) 7-5.
Talking about his overall career, Garin has an overall 317-194 record. He has a positive 260-136 record on clay.
Previously in Barcelona
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
Kei Nishikori
Ranked no. 39, the Japanese reached the 2nd round after beating Guido Pella 4-6 7-64 6-2.
In the 1st round against Pella, Kei recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 7-64 6-2). During the match Nishikori scored 117 points vs Pella’s 104. The Japanese was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about serving, Nishikori blasted 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Kei Nishikori lost the serve 4 times and he saved 12 break points. Furthermore, Nishikori put 60% of his first serves in, winning 55% (37/67) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (28/44) on the 2nd serve. The Japanese broke Pella 5 times after converting 38% of his break points (5/13).
Kei has a 7-7 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.Tennis Scores in Barcelona
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Pablo AndujarAndujar (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Jeremy ChardyChardy (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David GoffinGoffin – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Rafael NadalNadal – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (4-4) – H2H and prediction
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Christian GarinGarin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Federico GaioGaio – Andrey RublevRublev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – David GoffinGoffin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Daniel EvansEvans (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Alexander BublikBublik (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-0) – H2H and prediction