
Yoshihito Nishioka and Lorenzo Sonego will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 3:30 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 Lorenzo Sonego who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Lorenzo Sonego is the pick to win this match.
Lorenzo Sonego -> 1.47
Yoshihito Nishioka -> 2.68
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Prediction and head to head Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Lorenzo Sonego
This will be the 2nd time that Yoshihito Nishioka and Lorenzo Sonego face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Sonego (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Sonego won 6-2 4-6 6-0 in the qualifications in Monte carlo back in 2019.
Yoshihito Nishioka
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 9-4 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 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. 32 (career-high), Yoshihito will start his run in Rome after he played his last match in the Cagliari Challenger where he lost 2-6 6-1 6-4 to Elahi Galan Riveros in the 2nd round on the 4th of May.
The Japanese has an aggregate 10-9 win-loss record in 2023, 2-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Yoshihito’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Adelaide.
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 381-235 record. He has a positive 95-61 record on clay.
Previously in Rome
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See his history.
Lorenzo Sonego
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 7-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2024 | 27-33 | 10-14 | 10-11 | 4-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
2023 | 30-31 | 10-12 | 9-7 | 9-8 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
2022 | 30-29 | 7-9 | 8-11 | 10-5 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
2021 | 30-24 | 9-11 | 9-4 | 6-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 48, Lorenzo got to the 2nd round after defeating Jeremy Chardy 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, Lorenzo had a good straight sets win against Chardy (6-2 6-1). During the match Sonego scored 61 points vs Chardy’s 37. Sonego was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Sonego blasted 2 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Lorenzo Sonego conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 69% of his first serves in, win 84% (26/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (7/14) on the 2nd serve. Lorenzo broke Chardy 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Sonego has an aggregate 11-12 win-loss record in 2023, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See his history.
Head 2 Head



Tennis Scores in Rome
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- Fabio FogniniFognini – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (6-3 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Yibing WuWu (4-6 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Laslo DjereDjere – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Sebastian BaezBaez (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (4-6 6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Sebastian KordaKorda (6-2 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime (6-4 4-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cristian GarinCristian – Tommy PaulTommy (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
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- Alexander BublikBublik – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-4) – H2H and prediction
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – H2H and prediction