Alexander Zverev and Kei Nishikori will square off in the 3rd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 5th time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:00 pm on Pietrangeli. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Zverev who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexander Zverev is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Zverev -> 1.35
Kei Nishikori -> 3.44
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Zverev vs. Kei Nishikori
This will be the 5th time that Alexander Zverev and Kei Nishikori square off. The head to head is 3-1 for Zverev (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they played, Zverev won 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Madrid back in May 2021.
Highlights Alexander Zverev vs Kei Nishikori – Madrid 05-May-2021
Alexander Zverev
Ranked no. 6, Zverev got to the 3rd round after defeating Hugo Dellien 6-2 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Alexander had a good straight sets win against Dellien (6-2 6-2). During the match Zverev scored 66 points vs Dellien’s 46. Alexander was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Zverev scored 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alexander Zverev was exceptionally effective on serve to win 76% (28/37) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alexander broke Dellien 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Zverev has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 65% of his matches (335-179). 8-2 on clay in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Zverev has a 122-59 match record in the last 9 years on clay.
His best result of the season was winning the title in in Acapulco where he defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final 6-4 7-6(3) and in in Madrid where he defeated Matteo Berrettini in the final 6-7(8) 6-4 6-3.
Zverev has a 17-7 win-loss record in 2021, 8-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2017. See his history.
Kei Nishikori
Ranked no. 45, Kei reached the 3rd round after beating Fabio Fognini 6-3 6-4 and Pablo Carreno-Busta w/o.
In the 2nd round, The Japanese defeated Carreno-Busta (w/o). During the match Nishikori and Carreno-Busta scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 6 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match.
Talking about serving, Nishikori wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Kei Nishikori 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.
Kei has a 10-9 win-loss record in 2021, 4-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2016. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Zverev | Nishikori |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 19 |
| Pts | 66-46 | 60-49 |
| Total Points | 112 | 109 |
| Winners | 28 | 23 |
| %Winners | 42% | 38% |
Both Zverev and Nishikori played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Zverev and Nishikori have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Zverev played 3 games less than Nishikori. The German scored 28 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Nishikori bagged 23 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Zverev | Nishikori |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 3 |
| 1st in | 37/56 | 28/50 |
| %1st in | 66% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 28/37 | 23/28 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 11/19 | 14/22 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 64% |
Zverev scored 4 aces . Nishikori fired 3 aces . Zverev won 76% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Nishikori won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Zverev | Nishikori |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 3/8 |
| % Converted | 57% | 38% |
| Conceded | 6 | 1 |
| Saved | 6 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Zverev broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The German extremely effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 6 break points. Kei broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Kei conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Zverev | |||
| R2 Dellien |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 66-46 | 66-46 | |
| Total points | 112 | 112 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 37/56 | 37/56 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 28/37 | 28/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/19 | 11/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 6/6 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Nishikori | ||||
| R1 Fognini |
R2 Carreno-Busta |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | w/o | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | – | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | – | 19 | |
| pts | 60-49 | – | 60-49 | |
| Total points | 109 | – | 109 | |
| Winners | 23 | – | 23 | |
| %Winners | 38% | – | 38% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | – | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | – | 3 | |
| 1st in | 28/50 | – | 28/50 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | – | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 23/28 | – | 23/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | – | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | – | 14/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | – | 64% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | – | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | – | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | – | 38% | |
| Conceded | 1 | – | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | – | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | – | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLWL Tennis Scores in Rome
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Gianluca MagerMager (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Marin CilicCilic (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-77 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – John MillmanMillman (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (7-62 6-3) – See score progression
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (3-6 7-65 6-0) – See score progression
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Cameron NorrieNorrie (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Federico DelbonisDelbonis – David GoffinGoffin (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Hugo DellienDellien (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Christian GarinGarin (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Rafael NadalNadal – Jannik SinnerSinner (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (w/o) – See score progression
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (7-6(2) 6-3) – See score progression
- Rafael NadalNadal – Jannik SinnerSinner (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Andrey RublevRublev (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Kei NishikoriNishikori (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Rafael NadalNadal (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
