Kei Nishikori stuns Jordan Thompson 7-6(5) 7-6(5) in the 1st round in Atlanta on Tuesday. Nishikori will square off with Juncheng Shang in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 25 minutes. His best achievement in this event was reaching the quarter in 2012. Here you can see his history at this event.
Nishikori added to his prize money $ 5,035 after winning this match. He has already won $ 12,940 after this win. If he wins the next match, Nishikori will add $ 9,340 to his earnings to get in total $ 22,280 in total.
Highlights Kei Nishikori vs. Jordan Thompson Truist Atlanta Open – Atlanta
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:25
At the end of the match, Nishikori scored 92 points vs. Jordan’s 88.
Nishikori
The Japanese served extremely well to win 75% of the points (49/65) behind his first serve, and he won 54% points (14/26) on his second serve. The Japanese wasn’t able to conquer any break point to win the match only at the tiebreaks.
Thompson
On the other side, the Australian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/4). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Nishikori and Thompson is 2-1 for Kei.
Draw and next match H2H: Kei Nishikori vs. Juncheng Shang – stats
Nishikori will play Shang in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Kei Nishikori and Juncheng Shang since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Tennis Scores in Atlanta
- Yibing WuWu – Corentin MoutetMoutet (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Andres MartinMartin (6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Juncheng ShangShang – Ben SheltonShelton (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Maxime CressyCressy – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – John IsnerIsner (3-6 7-64 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Max PurcellPurcell (6-3 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Constant LestienneLestienne (4-6 7-5 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Jordan ThompsonThompson (7-65 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Jeff WolfWolf – Jason JungJung (6-2 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Ethan QuinnQuinn (7-65 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Gael MonfilsMonfils (1-6 6-3 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – James DuckworthDuckworth (3-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Daniel EvansEvans – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Yibing WuWu (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Lloyd HarrisHarris (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Maxime CressyCressy – Jeff WolfWolf (0-1) – H2H details and stats
