Taylor Fritz and Kei Nishikori will square off in the quarter of the Truist Atlanta Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 3:00 pm on STADIUM COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taylor Fritz who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Taylor Fritz is the pick to win this match.
Taylor Fritz -> 1.47
Kei Nishikori -> 2.69
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Prediction and head to head Taylor Fritz vs. Kei Nishikori
This will be the 4th time that Taylor Fritz and Kei Nishikori face off. The head to head is 3-0 for Nishikori (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Nishikori won 6-2 6-4 in the 2nd round in Rome back in 2019.
Taylor Fritz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 53-23 | 22-10 | 15-7 | 6-4 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 54-24 | 35-11 | 11-6 | 5-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-21 | 24-8 | 5-3 | 9-7 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-22 | 20-13 | 4-5 | 8-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-16 | 11-9 | 2-3 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 9, the American reached the quarter after beating Yibing Wu 6-4 7-65.
In the 2nd round, Taylor had a good straight sets win against Wu (6-4 7-65). During the match, Fritz scored 83 points vs Wu’s 68. The American was very aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Regarding the service games, Fritz scored 10 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults. Overall, Taylor Fritz was exceptionally effective on serve to win 81% (38/47) of his 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Wu twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Fritz has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (333-209). 19-5 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Fritz has an aggregate 197-105 record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the year was conquering the title in Australia where he defeated Matteo Berrettini in the final 7-6(4) 7-6(6) and in Delray Beach where he defeated Miomir Kecmanovic in the final 6-0 5-7 6-2.
Taylor has a compiled 35-16 win-loss record in 2023, 19-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Atlanta
Kei Nishikori
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-11 | 7-5 | 5-3 | 8-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 10-3 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-17 | 15-9 | 7-4 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 439, Nishikori reached the quarter after defeating Jordan Thompson 7-65 7-65 and Juncheng Shang 6-4 7-63.
In the 2nd round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Shang (6-4 7-63). During the match Nishikori scored 69 points vs Shang’s 55. The Japanese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Nishikori bagged 4 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Kei Nishikori was extremely effective on serve to win 78% (31/40) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Kei broke Shang 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Nishikori hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Palmas del Mar Challenger where he overcame Michael Zheng in the final 6-2 7-5.
Nishikori has a compiled 10-2 win-loss record in 2023, 10-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Fritz | Nishikori |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 49 |
| Pts | 83-68 | 161-143 |
| Total Points | 151 | 304 |
| Winners | 38 | 80 |
| %Winners | 46% | 50% |
Fritz played 1 match while Nishikori competed in 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Fritz has played 2 set(s) less than Nishikori (2 vs 4). Therefore, Fritz played 26 games less than Nishikori. Fritz scored 38 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Kei bagged 80 winners (50%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Fritz | Nishikori |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 2 |
| 1st in | 47/72 | 105/152 |
| %1st in | 65% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 38/47 | 80/105 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 14/25 | 27/47 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 57% |
Fritz fired 10 aces . Nishikori recorded 4 aces (2 per match). Fritz won 81% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Nishikori won 76% of the points behind 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 | Fritz | Nishikori |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/7 | 3/12 |
| % Converted | 29% | 25% |
| Conceded | 4 | 7 |
| Saved | 3 | 5 |
| % Saved | 75% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The American broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponents 3 times with a 25% conversion rate. Kei conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Fritz | |||
| R2 Wu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 83-68 | 83-68 | |
| Total points | 151 | 151 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 47/72 | 47/72 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 38/47 | 38/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/25 | 14/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Nishikori | ||||
| R1 Thompson |
R2 Shang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 7-65 | 6-4 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 23 | 49 | |
| pts | 92-88 | 69-55 | 161-143 | |
| Total points | 180 | 124 | 304 | |
| Winners | 49 | 31 | 80 | |
| %Winners | 53% | 45% | 50% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 65/91 | 40/61 | 105/152 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 66% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 49/65 | 31/40 | 80/105 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 78% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/26 | 13/21 | 27/47 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 62% | 57% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 0/6 | 3/6 | 3/12 | |
| Converted % | 0% | 50% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 1/3 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 33% | 133% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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