Juncheng Shang and Kei Nishikori will face off in the 1st round of the Chengdu Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:30 pm on COURT CENTER. 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 Juncheng Shang who should win in 3 sets.
Juncheng Shang -> 1.6
Kei Nishikori -> 2.34
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Prediction and head to head Juncheng Shang vs. Kei Nishikori
This will be the 2nd time that Juncheng Shang and Kei Nishikori square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Nishikori (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Nishikori won 6-4 7-6(3) in the 2nd round in Atlanta back in 2023.
Juncheng Shang
34 - 19win/loss
55
55
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-19 | 23-8 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-23 | 21-14 | 3-3 | 0-2 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-24 | 17-8 | 15-10 | 7-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-5 | 6-3 | 12-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 67, Shang will start his run in Chengdu after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-7(1) 3-6 6-0 6-3 6-1 to Ruud in the 3rd round on the 30th of August.
Shang has an overall 34-19 win-loss record in 2024, 19-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Chinese’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Hong Kong,the Bordeaux Challenger and Atlanta.
Talking about his overall career, Shang has an overall 123-71 record. He has a positive 63-33 record on hard.
Previously in Chengdu
The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.
Kei Nishikori
9 - 6win/loss
200
4
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-7 | 4-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 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. 201, will start his run in Chengdu after he played his last match in 1 where he beat 6-4 6-4 to Mejia in the Rubber 2 on the 14th of September.
Kei has a composed 9-6 win-loss record in 2024, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.In terms of his career, Kei has an overall 579-269 record. He has a positive 289-135 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Chengdu
- Taro DanielDaniel – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lukas KleinKlein – Adam WaltonWalton (7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Giovanni Mpetshi PerricardGiovanni – Fajing SunFajing (6-7(5) 7-5 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Lukas KleinKlein (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Borna CoricCoric (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Fabio FogniniFognini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (0-0) – H2H and prediction