Yoshihito Nishioka and Emil Ruusuvuori will face off in the 2nd round of the Citi Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Emil Ruusuvuori who should win in 3 sets.
Emil Ruusuvuori -> 1.68
Yoshihito Nishioka -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Emil Ruusuvuori
This will be the 4th time that Yoshihito Nishioka and Emil Ruusuvuori fight against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Ruusuvuori (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Ruusuvuori won 6-2 6-2 4-6 6-4 in the 1st round in at the Wimbledon back in 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. 31, Nishioka will start his run in Washington after he played his last match in Atlanta where he lost 4-6 7-5 7-6(3) to Vukic in the 2nd round on the 26th of July.
The Japanese has a compiled 13-13 win-loss record in 2023, 7-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Nishioka’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Adelaide.
Talking about his overall career, Nishioka has an overall 384-239 record. He has a positive 214-126 record on hard.
Previously in Washington
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2022. See his history.
Emil Ruusuvuori
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11-17 | 1-5 | 2-2 | 8-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 17-16 | 8-6 | 2-5 | 4-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-30 | 13-11 | 6-7 | 9-8 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-32 | 15-12 | 10-9 | 10-7 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-26 | 21-12 | 1-5 | 6-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 55, the Finn reached the 2nd round after beating Constant Lestienne 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Ruusuvuori had a good straight sets win against Lestienne (6-4 6-4). During the match Ruusuvuori scored 63 points vs Lestienne’s 53. The Finn was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Ruusuvuori scored 7 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Emil Ruusuvuori was quite efficient on serve to win 74% (34/46) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ruusuvuori broke Lestienne twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Ruusuvuori’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Hertogenbosch.
The Finn has a composed 22-21 win-loss record in 2023, 10-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Washington
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd
round in 2022. See his history.Tennis Scores in Washington
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-4 6-77 6-3) – See score progression
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Maxime CressyCressy (6-3 7-68) – See score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Kiranpal PannuPannu (7-63 6-1) – See score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Constant LestienneLestienne (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Maximo Gonzalez/Andres MolteniGonzalez/Andres Molteni – Robin Haase/Nikola MekticHaase/Nikola Mektic (6-75 7-67 10-8) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Bradley KlahnKlahn (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Juncheng ShangShang – Emilio GomezGomez (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Yibing WuWu (1-4 ret.) – See score progression
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Diego SchwartzmanSchwartzman (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Marcos GironGiron (6-3 5-7 7-5) – See score progression
- Liam BroadyBroady – Corentin MoutetMoutet (7-60 6-4) – See score progression
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Marcos GironGiron (6-3 5-7 7-5) – See score progression
- Liam BroadyBroady – Corentin MoutetMoutet (7-6(0) 6-4) – See score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (6-4 6-7(7) 6-3) – See score progression
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Kiranpal PannuPannu (7-6(3) 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Alexander BublikBublik (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kevin AndersonAnderson – Jordan ThompsonThompson (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Jeff WolfWolf (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Daniel EvansEvans (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Michael MmohMmoh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Liam BroadyBroady (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Kei NishikoriNishikori (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (1-0) – H2H and prediction