Miomir Kecmanovic and Yoshihito Nishioka will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Western & Southern Open for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 6:30 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 Yoshihito Nishioka who should win in 3 sets.
Yoshihito Nishioka -> 1.82
Miomir Kecmanovic -> 1.99
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Prediction and head to head Miomir Kecmanovic vs. Yoshihito Nishioka
This will be the 5th time that Miomir Kecmanovic and Yoshihito Nishioka play each other. The head to head is 2-2 (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Kecmanovic won 2-6 7-6(1) 6-2 in the 1st round in Tokyo back in 2022.
Highlights Miomir Kecmanovic vs Yoshihito Nishioka – Tokyo 05-October-2022
Miomir Kecmanovic
18 - 22win/loss
50
27
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-22 | 8-11 | 6-7 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-31 | 11-13 | 9-9 | 6-5 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-26 | 21-11 | 15-8 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-27 | 6-11 | 5-8 | 5-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-13 | 7-6 | 5-2 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 50, Miomir will start his run in Cincinnati after he played his last match in Montreal where he lost 5-7 6-4 6-4 to Borges in the 1st round on the 6th of August.
The Serbian has an aggregate 18-22 win-loss record in 2024, 8-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Kecmanovic has an overall 285-214 record. He has a positive 124-92 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
Yoshihito Nishioka
23 - 19win/loss
51
24
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-19 | 11-10 | 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. 51, Nishioka reached the 1st round after beating Taro Daniel 6-3 6-1 and Arthur Cazaux 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Nishioka had a good straight sets win against Cazaux (6-4 6-4). During the match Nishioka scored 62 points vs Cazaux’s 47. Yoshihito was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Nishioka struck 5 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Yoshihito Nishioka was pretty effective on serve to win 76% (25/33) of his 1st serve and 92% (11/12) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Nishioka broke Cazaux 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 59% of the points he played.
His best result of the current season was winning the title in Atlanta where he overcame Jordan Thompson in the final 4-6 7-6(2) 6-2.
The Japanese has a composed 23-19 win-loss record in 2024, 11-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Santiago Gonzalez/Edouard Roger-VasselinGonzalez/Edouard Roger-Vasselin – Lloyd Glasspool/Ugo HumbertGlasspool/Ugo Humbert (3-6 6-3 10-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Tommy PaulPaul (6-2 4-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (4-5) – H2H and prediction
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Sebastian KordaKorda (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marcos GironGiron – Sebastian BaezBaez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (4-2) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon HoltHolt – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Corentin MoutetMoutet (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Mariano NavoneNavone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jack DraperDraper – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Nicolas JarryJarry (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (1-1) – H2H and prediction