Casper Ruud and Yoshihito Nishioka will fight against each other in the quarter of the Korea Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 5:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Casper Ruud who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Casper Ruud is the pick to win this match.
Casper Ruud -> 1.35
Yoshihito Nishioka -> 3.32

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Prediction and head to head Casper Ruud vs. Yoshihito Nishioka

This will be the 2^nd time that Casper Ruud and Yoshihito Nishioka square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Ruud (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Ruud won 6-1 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Madrid back in 2021.

Casper Ruud

Ranked no. 2 (career-high), Casper got to the quarter after defeating Nicolas Jarry 6-2 3-6 6-3

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In the 2^nd round, Ruud defeated Jarry (6-2 3-6 6-3). During the match, Ruud scored 73 points vs Jarry’s 65. Ruud was very aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Regarding the service games, Ruud scored 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Casper Ruud was quite efficient on serve to win 81% (38/47) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Ruud broke Jarry 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Ruud has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 66% of his matches (312-164). 18-6 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Ruud has an aggregate73-47 match record in the last 8 years on hard.

His best result of the year was winning the title in Buenos Aires where he defeated Diego Schwartzman in the final 5-7 6-2 6-3 and in Geneva where he beat Joao Sousa in the final 7-6(3) 4-6 7-6(1) and in Gstaad where he overcame Matteo Berrettini in the final 4-6 7-6(4) 6-2.

Casper has an aggregate 47-16 win-loss record in 2022, 18-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Seoul

Casper has never competed in this tournament before.

Yoshihito Nishioka

Ranked no. 56, the Japanese got to the quarter after beating Daniel Evans 6-2 7-6³ and Taro Daniel 6-2 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, Yoshihito had a good straight sets win against Daniel (6-2 6-4). During the match Nishioka scored 56 points vs Daniel’s 45. Yoshihito was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about serving, Nishioka was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Yoshihito Nishioka was extremely efficient on serve to win 78% (29/37) of his 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Daniel 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Japanese hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Nishioka’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Columbus Challenger,the Cleveland Challenger and Washington.

Yoshihito has an aggregate 36-21 win-loss record in 2022, 22-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Ruud	Nishioka
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	3	4
Tot Games	26	39
Pts	73-65	134-110
Total Points	138	244
Winners	38	59
%Winners	52%	44%

Ruud played 1 match while Nishioka competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Casper Ruud dropped 1 set while Yoshihito Nishioka hasn’t dropped a set so far. Ruud has played 1 set(s) less than Nishioka (3 vs 4). Therefore, Ruud played 13 games less than Nishioka. Ruud scored 38 winners (52% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese scored 59 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Ruud	Nishioka
Aces	6	3
Avg per match	6	1.5
1st in	47/70	80/115
%1st in	67%	70%
1st pts	38/47	59/80
%1st pts	81%	74%
2nd pts	13/23	20/35
%2nd pts	57%	57%

Ruud fired 6 aces . Nishioka recorded 3 aces (1.5 per match). Ruud won 81% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Nishioka won 74% 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	Ruud	Nishioka
Won	3	7
Converted	3/7	7/19
% Converted	43%	37%
Conceded	1	2
Saved	0	0
% Saved	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	2

Casper broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Casper surrendered his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Nishioka broke his opponents 7 times with a 37% conversion rate. Yoshihito conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

Ruud
	R2 Jarry	Total
Score	6-2 3-6 6-3
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	26	26
pts	73-65	73-65
Total points	138	138
Winners	38	38
%Winners	52%	52%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	47/70	47/70
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	38/47	38/47
% 1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	13/23	13/23
% 2nd pts	57%	57%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/7	3/7
Converted %	43%	43%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

Nishioka
	R1 Evans	R2 Daniel	Total
Score	6-2 7-63	6-2 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	21	18	39
pts	78-65	56-45	134-110
Total points	143	101	244
Winners	30	29	59
%Winners	38%	52%	44%
SERVE
Aces	3	0	3
Double Faults	1	0	1
1st in	43/64	37/51	80/115
% 1st in	67%	73%	70%
1st pts	30/43	29/37	59/80
% 1st pts	70%	78%	74%
2nd pts	12/21	8/14	20/35
% 2nd pts	57%	57%	57%
Breaks
Won	4	3	7
Converted	4/14	3/5	7/19
Converted %	29%	60%	37%
Conceded	2	0	2
Saved	0/2	0/0	0
Saved %	0%	–	0%
Times Broken	2	0	2

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