Yoshihito Nishioka and Marin Cilic will face off in the 2nd round of the Hangzhou Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 1:30 pm on COURT CENTER. 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.
As per the initial odds, Yoshihito Nishioka is the pick to win this match.
Yoshihito Nishioka -> 1.5
Marin Cilic -> 2.6
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Prediction and head to head Yoshihito Nishioka vs. Marin Cilic
This will be the 2nd time that Yoshihito Nishioka and Marin Cilic play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cilic (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Cilic won 6-1 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in at the Wimbledon back in 2018.
Yoshihito Nishioka
27 - 21win/loss
72
24
LLWLWWWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-24 | 16-15 | 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 |
| 2020 | 16-13 | 10-6 | 2-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 54, Nishioka got to the 2nd round after beating Maximilian Marterer 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Yoshihito had a good straight sets win against Marterer (6-4 6-2). During the match, Nishioka scored 58 points vs Marterer’s 37. The Japanese was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Nishioka scored just 1 ace and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults. Yoshihito Nishioka was very efficient on serve to win 76% (25/33) of his 1st serve and 76% (13/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Marterer 3 times.
Nishioka has winning record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (311-219). 15-12 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Nishioka has a compiled 192-124 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the season was conquering the title in Atlanta where he beat Jordan Thompson in the final 4-6 7-6(2) 6-2.
The Japanese has an aggregate 27-21 win-loss record in 2024, 15-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hangzhou
Nishioka has never competed in this tournament before.
Marin Cilic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-11 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-21 | 16-10 | 9-5 | 4-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-23 | 6-9 | 5-5 | 13-7 | 9-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-12 | 7-5 | 2-2 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 777, the Croatian got to the 2nd round after defeating Zachary Svajda 5-7 6-3 6-0.
In the 1st round against Svajda, Marin recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-3 6-0). During the match Cilic scored 85 points vs Svajda’s 70. The Croatian was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Cilic managed to score 14 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Marin Cilic lost the serve 4 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Cilic put 51% of his first serves in, winning 88% (35/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 32% (12/38) on the 2nd serve. Cilic broke Svajda 7 times after converting 58% of his break points (7/12).
Cilic has a compiled 4-6 win-loss record in 2024, 4-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nishioka | Cilic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 27 |
| Pts | 58-37 | 85-70 |
| Total Points | 95 | 155 |
| Winners | 25 | 35 |
| %Winners | 43% | 41% |
Both Nishioka and Cilic played 1 match. At the moment, Marin Cilic dropped 1 set while Yoshihito Nishioka hasn’t lost a set so far. Nishioka has played 1 set(s) less than Cilic (2 vs 3). Therefore, Nishioka played 9 games less than Cilic. Nishioka scored 25 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Croatian struck 35 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nishioka | Cilic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 14 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 14 |
| 1st in | 33/50 | 40/78 |
| %1st in | 66% | 51% |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 35/40 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 88% |
| 2nd pts | 13/17 | 12/38 |
| %2nd pts | 76% | 32% |
Nishioka managed to score 1 ace . Cilic also struck 14 aces . Nishioka won 76% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 76% of the points. On the other side, Cilic won 88% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 32% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nishioka | Cilic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 7 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 7/12 |
| % Converted | 100% | 58% |
| Conceded | 0 | 5 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 20% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
The Japanese broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Nishioka had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Marin broke his opponent 7 times with a 58% conversion rate. Marin conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 20% of the break points that he conceded.
| Nishioka | |||
| R1 Marterer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 58-37 | 58-37 | |
| Total points | 95 | 95 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 33/50 | 33/50 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 25/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/17 | 13/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 76% | 76% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Cilic | |||
| R1 Svajda |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 5-7 6-3 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 85-70 | 85-70 | |
| Total points | 155 | 155 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 14 | 14 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 40/78 | 40/78 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 35/40 | 35/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/38 | 12/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 32% | 32% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/12 | 7/12 | |
| Converted % | 58% | 58% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 1/5 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 20% | 20% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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