Yoshihito Nishioka and Marcos Giron will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Rakuten Japan Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 6:00 pm on COLOSSEUM. 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 Yoshihito Nishioka who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yoshihito Nishioka is the pick to win this match.
Yoshihito Nishioka -> 1.65
Marcos Giron -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Marcos Giron
This will be the 4th time that Yoshihito Nishioka and Marcos Giron clash against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Nishioka (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Giron won 6-7(4) 6-4 ret. in the qualifications in Madrid back in 2021.
Yoshihito Nishioka
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-17 | 4-8 | 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 |
| 2020 | 16-13 | 10-6 | 2-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 44, Nishioka will start his run in Tokyo after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 7-5 6-0 to Ruud in the 2nd round on the 6th of October.
Nishioka has a compiled 20-20 win-loss record in 2023, 14-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Japanese’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Zhuhai.
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 391-246 record. He has a positive 221-133 record on hard.
Previously in Tokyo
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
Marcos Giron
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-18 | 4-6 | 3-7 | 4-1 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-30 | 17-15 | 7-6 | 5-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-31 | 11-13 | 3-9 | 6-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 12-10 | 5-5 | 11-6 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 23-15 | 12-8 | 1-2 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 79, Marcos got to the 1st round after defeating Kaichi Uchida 6-4 6-3 and Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Giron had a good straight sets win against Uchiyama (6-3 6-2). During the match Giron scored 66 points vs Uchiyama’s 40. Marcos was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Giron managed to score 4 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Marcos Giron was pretty effective on serve to win 93% (28/30) of his 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Marcos broke Uchiyama 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Giron started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to conquer 59% of the points he played.
The American has an overall 27-26 win-loss record in 2023, 14-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Giron has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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