Yoshihito Nishioka and Marin Cilic will face off in the 2^nd round of the Hangzhou Open for the 2^nd 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 2^nd 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 1^st round in at the Wimbledon back in 2018.

Yoshihito Nishioka

Ranked no. 54, Nishioka got to the 2^nd round after beating Maximilian Marterer 6-4 6-2.

In the 1^st 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

Ranked no. 777, the Croatian got to the 2^nd round after defeating Zachary Svajda 5-7 6-3 6-0.

In the 1^st 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

Tennis Scores in Hangzhou

• Rinky HijikataHijikata – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (w/o) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-4 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Zhizhen ZhangZhang – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Brandon NakashimaNakashima – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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