Yoshihito Nishioka and Hugo Grenier will square off in the quarter of the Porto Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:00 pm on COURT CARLSBERG. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yoshihito Nishioka who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yoshihito Nishioka is the pick to win this match.
Yoshihito Nishioka -> 1.64
Hugo Grenier -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Hugo Grenier
This will be the 2nd time that Yoshihito Nishioka and Hugo Grenier square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Nishioka (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Nishioka won 6-1 3-6 6-4 in the qualifications in Indian wells back in March 2022.
Yoshihito Nishioka
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-22 | 16-14 | 0-2 | 10-2 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-24 | 17-15 | 6-7 | 1-0 | 5-2 | 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 |
Ranked no. 101, the Japanese reached the quarter after beating Andrey Kuznetsov 7-65 7-5 and Emilio Nava 7-62 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Nishioka had a good straight sets win against Nava (7-62 6-3). During the match, Nishioka scored 84 points vs Nava’s 66. Yoshihito was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about the service games, Nishioka scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Yoshihito Nishioka was quite effective on serve to win 84% (32/38) of his 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Yoshihito broke Nava twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to conquer 54% of the points he played.
Nishioka has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (334-203). 13-7 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Nishioka has a compiled 189-109 match record in the last years on hard.
The Japanese’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Columbus Challenger and the Cleveland Challenger.
Nishioka has a compiled 25-15 win-loss record in 2022, 13-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Porto Challenger
Yoshihito has never competed in this tournament before.
Hugo Grenier
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41-34 | 30-18 | 0-2 | 9-9 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-33 | 25-15 | 2-8 | 9-8 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-33 | 15-8 | 7-10 | 4-11 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-35 | 21-14 | 9-10 | 1-8 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-28 | 22-9 | 9-8 | 12-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 141, the French player got to the quarter after defeating Pedro Sousa 6-3 7-5 and Daniel Rodrigues 6-4 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Hugo had a good straight sets win against Rodrigues (6-4 6-2). During the match Grenier scored 67 points vs Rodrigues’s 51. Grenier was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Grenier recorded 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Hugo Grenier lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Grenier put 60% of his first serves in, winning 79% (27/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (11/23) on the 2nd serve. Hugo broke Rodrigues 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Grenier hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
The French player has a compiled 19-23 win-loss record in 2022, 6-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nishioka | Grenier |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 47 | 39 |
| Pts | 183-158 | 138-103 |
| Total Points | 341 | 241 |
| Winners | 70 | 60 |
| %Winners | 38% | 43% |
Both Nishioka and Grenier played 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Nishioka and Grenier have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Nishioka played 8 games more than Grenier. Nishioka scored 70 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The French player blasted 60 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nishioka | Grenier |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 16 |
| Avg per match | 2.5 | 8 |
| 1st in | 94/152 | 73/115 |
| %1st in | 62% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 70/94 | 60/73 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 34/58 | 24/42 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 57% |
Nishioka made 5 aces (2.5 per match). Grenier bagged 16 aces (8 per match). Nishioka won 74% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Grenier won 82% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nishioka | Grenier |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/17 | 6/16 |
| % Converted | 29% | 38% |
| Conceded | 12 | 7 |
| Saved | 9 | 6 |
| % Saved | 75% | 86% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
Yoshihito broke his opponents 5 times with a 29% conversion rate. The Japanese surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Grenier broke his opponents 6 times with a 38% conversion rate. Hugo conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.
| Nishioka | ||||
| R1 Kuznetsov |
R2 Nava |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 7-5 | 7-62 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 22 | 47 | |
| pts | 99-92 | 84-66 | 183-158 | |
| Total points | 191 | 150 | 341 | |
| Winners | 38 | 32 | 70 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 56/92 | 38/60 | 94/152 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 63% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 38/56 | 32/38 | 70/94 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 84% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/36 | 14/22 | 34/58 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 64% | 59% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 2/9 | 5/17 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 22% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 1 | 12 | |
| Saved | 9/11 | 0/1 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 82% | 0% | 41% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Grenier | ||||
| R1 Sousa |
R2 Rodrigues |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 18 | 39 | |
| pts | 71-52 | 67-51 | 138-103 | |
| Total points | 123 | 118 | 241 | |
| Winners | 33 | 27 | 60 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 40% | 43% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 12 | 4 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 39/58 | 34/57 | 73/115 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 60% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 33/39 | 27/34 | 60/73 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 79% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 11/23 | 24/42 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 48% | 57% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 4/9 | 6/16 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 44% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | – | 86% | 43% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
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