Yoshihito Nishioka and Luke Saville will face off in the qualifications of the Adelaide International 2 for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on MATCH COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yoshihito Nishioka who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yoshihito Nishioka is the pick to win this match.
Yoshihito Nishioka -> 1.33
Luke Saville -> 3.32
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Prediction and head to head Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Luke Saville
This will be the 5th time that Yoshihito Nishioka and Luke Saville fight against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Nishioka (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Saville won 2-6 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Traralgon Challenger back in 2016.
Yoshihito Nishioka
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-12 | 4-8 | 4-4 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-22 | 14-15 | 5-5 | 4-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-25 | 25-13 | 2-5 | 17-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-26 | 5-11 | 8-7 | 5-5 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-13 | 10-6 | 2-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 81, the Japanese got to the qualifications after beating Aaron Addison 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, Yoshihito had a good straight sets win against Addison (6-2 6-3). During the match, Nishioka scored 68 points vs Addison’s 47. The Japanese was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Nishioka couldn’t to score even 1 ace during the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Yoshihito Nishioka was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (24/31) of his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Addison 4 times after converting 25% of his break points (4/16).
Nishioka has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (310-189). 1-1 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Nishioka has a compiled 177-103 match record in the last years on hard.
The Japanese has an overall 1-1 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Adelaide
Luke Saville
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-12 | 10-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-26 | 28-18 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 14-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-11 | 18-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 643, Luke got to the qualifications after beating Thomas Fancutt 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Saville had a good straight sets win against Fancutt (6-4 6-4). During the match Saville scored 65 points vs Fancutt’s 51. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Saville scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Luke Saville was exceptionally effective on serve to win 84% (27/32) of his 1st serve and 65% (17/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Saville broke Fancutt twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Luke has an aggregate 1-0 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nishioka | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 20 |
| Pts | 68-47 | 65-51 |
| Total Points | 115 | 116 |
| Winners | 24 | 27 |
| %Winners | 35% | 42% |
Both Nishioka and Saville played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Nishioka and Saville have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Nishioka played 3 games less than Saville. The Japanese scored 24 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Saville bagged 27 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nishioka | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 1 |
| 1st in | 31/51 | 32/58 |
| %1st in | 61% | 55% |
| 1st pts | 24/31 | 27/32 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 17/26 |
| %2nd pts | 70% | 65% |
Nishioka didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Saville scored 1 ace . Nishioka won 77% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Saville won 84% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nishioka | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 2 |
| Converted | 4/16 | 2/5 |
| % Converted | 25% | 40% |
| Conceded | 4 | 1 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Yoshihito broke his opponent 4 times with a 25% conversion rate. Yoshihito pretty effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 4 break points. The Australian broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Saville was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Nishioka | |||
| Q1 Addison |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 68-47 | 68-47 | |
| Total points | 115 | 115 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 31/51 | 31/51 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 24/31 | 24/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 14/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/16 | 4/16 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Saville | |||
| Q1 Fancutt |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 65-51 | 65-51 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 32/58 | 32/58 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 27/32 | 27/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/26 | 17/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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