Yoshihito Nishioka ousts Luke Saville 7-6(4) 6-7(0) 6-2 in the qualifications in Adelaide on Monday. Nishioka will clash against Thiago Moura Monteiro in the 1st round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 18 minutes. This run will match his most significant achievement in this competition. Here you can see his history at this event.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
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At the end of the match, the Japanese scored 116 points vs. Saville’s 110.
Nishioka
The Japanese won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points after he converted only 36% (5/14) of the procured opportunities.
Saville
On the other side, Saville was pretty effective at converting 50% of the break points that he conquered points (3/6). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Nishioka and Saville is 4-1 for Yoshihito.
Draw and next match H2H: Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Thiago Moura Monteiro – stats
Nishioka will come up against Moura Monteiro in the 1st round.
This will be the 2nd time that Yoshihito Nishioka and Thiago Moura Monteiro fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Moura Monteiro (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Moura Monteiro won 6-4 2-6 7-64 in the qualifications in Houston back in 2015.
Live score progression and stats
Moura Monteiro was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Luke Saville in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Anyhow, Yoshihito refused to bow to come back to break Saville 3 times in the 5th (1-4), in the 7th (3-4) and in the 8th (4-4) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.
Certainly, a key moment was when Nishioka won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-4 to 4-4. Yet also the Australian won 4 consecutive games from 0-0 to 4-0
Tiebreak
Yoshihito won 3 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (3-1) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Saville won a minibreak in the 2nd (1-1) point.
The Japanese won the tiebreak 7-4 after he conquered a decisive 5-3 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
The Japanese converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 5th (1-4 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 7th game (2-4 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Luke was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 2nd (4-1 30-40) and the 4th game (4-1 15-40).
They contested 80 points. Yoshihito conquered the set after winning 4 points more than Luke (42-38). The Japanese surrendered 13 points on serve (24-13). In addition, on the other side, the Australian conceded 18 points on serve (25-18).
Nishioka had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Luke Saville in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Yet, Luke refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Yoshihito in the 9th (4-5) game before winning the set at the breaker at 0.
Tiebreak
The Australian won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (4-0), 5th (5-0) and 7th (7-0) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 6-0, 7-0
Saville was flawless in converting all his break points in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 7th (2-4 40-A and 40-A) and the 9th game (3-5 0-40). Also, on the other side, Yoshihito was perfect in converting all his break points in the 2nd (3-1 40-A), the 4th (3-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 6th game (4-1 40-A).
They contested 103 points. Saville won 9 points more than Nishioka (56-47). Saville surrendered 21 points on serve (35-21). In addition, on the other side, Yoshihito conceded 21 points on serve (26-21).
The Japanese in this set stepped up in a great fashion to overplay Saville and without too much struggle he won 6-2 after breaking Saville in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
A defining moment of this set was when Nishioka won 5 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the score from 0-1 to 5-1.
Yoshihito converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 3rd (1-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 4th game (3-1 15-40). On the other side, the Japanese didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 43 points. Yoshihito was the one to win the set after conquering 11 points more than the Australian (27-16). Nishioka was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (16-4). On the other side, Luke conceded 11 points on serve (12-11).
Tennis Scores in Adelaide
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (7-66 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Hugo NysNys (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (6-4 6-76 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Luke SavilleSaville (7-64 6-70 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alex BoltBolt – Steve JohnsonJohnson (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Gianluca MagerMager – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Benoit PairePaire (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Lloyd HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Marin CilicCilic (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Benjamin BonziBonzi (0-0) – H2H details and stats
