Jordan Thompson and Kei Nishikori will face off in the 2^nd round of the Japan Open Tennis Championships for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 4:00 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 Jordan Thompson who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jordan Thompson is the pick to win this match.
Jordan Thompson -> 1.48
Kei Nishikori -> 2.65

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Prediction and head to head Jordan Thompson vs. Kei Nishikori

This will be the 4^th time that Jordan Thompson and Kei Nishikori fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Nishikori (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Nishikori won 7-6(5) 7-6(5) in the 1^st round in Atlanta back in 2023.

Highlights Kei Nishikori vs Jordan Thompson – Atlanta 25-July-2023

Jordan Thompson

Ranked no. 29 (career-high), Thompson got to the 2^nd round after defeating Casper Ruud 7-6(5) 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Thompson had a good straight sets win against Ruud (7-6⁵ 6-1). During the match, Thompson scored 76 points vs Ruud’s 62. The Australian was very aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Talking about the service games, Thompson managed to score 14 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Jordan Thompson conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 8 break points. Furthermore, Thompson put 59% of his first serves in, winning 84% (37/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (14/30) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Ruud twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).

Thompson has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (372-251). 23-11 on hard in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Thompson has an overall 215-135 match record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the current year was winning the title in Los Cabos where he defeated Casper Ruud in the final 6-3 7-6(4).

The Australian has a compiled 32-21 win-loss record in 2024, 23-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Tokyo

Kei Nishikori

Ranked no. 200, Kei got to the 2^nd round after defeating Marin Cilic 6-4 3-6 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Nishikori defeated Cilic (6-4 3-6 6-3).During the match Nishikori scored less points (1) than Cilic. In fact, the world no. 29 won 78 points vs Cilic’s. That means that Nishikori was more focused during the important points. The Japanese was pretty aggressive to blast 43 winners.

About the serving games, Nishikori made 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Kei Nishikori lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Nishikori put 70% of his first serves in, winning 75% (43/57) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (10/24) on the 2nd serve. Kei broke Cilic 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Nishikori has an aggregate 10-7 win-loss record in 2024, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Tokyo

Previously, he won this tournament twice in 2012 and 2014. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Thompson	Nishikori
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	20	28
Pts	76-62	78-79
Total Points	138	157
Winners	37	43
%Winners	49%	55%

Both Thompson and Nishikori played 1 match. At the moment, Kei Nishikori surrendered 1 set while Jordan Thompson hasn’t conceded a set so far. Thompson has played 1 set(s) less than Nishikori (2 vs 3). Therefore, Thompson played 8 games less than Nishikori. Jordan scored 37 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Nishikori struck 43 winners (55%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Thompson	Nishikori
Aces	14	7
Avg per match	14	7
1st in	44/74	57/81
%1st in	59%	70%
1st pts	37/44	43/57
%1st pts	84%	75%
2nd pts	14/30	10/24
%2nd pts	47%	42%

Thompson managed to score 14 aces . Nishikori recorded 7 aces . Thompson won 84% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Nishikori won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 42% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Thompson	Nishikori
Won	2	3
Converted	2/4	3/7
% Converted	50%	43%
Conceded	8	4
Saved	8	2
% Saved	100%	50%
Times Broken	0	2

Thompson broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Thompson quite strong on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 8 break points. The Japanese broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Kei conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Thompson
	R1 Ruud	Total
Score	7-65 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	76-62	76-62
Total points	138	138
Winners	37	37
%Winners	49%	49%
SERVE
Aces	14	14
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	44/74	44/74
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	37/44	37/44
% 1st pts	84%	84%
2nd pts	14/30	14/30
% 2nd pts	47%	47%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/4	2/4
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	8/8	8
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Nishikori
	R1 Cilic	Total
Score	6-4 3-6 6-3
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	28	28
pts	78-79	78-79
Total points	157	157
Winners	43	43
%Winners	55%	55%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	57/81	57/81
% 1st in	70%	70%
1st pts	43/57	43/57
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	10/24	10/24
% 2nd pts	42%	42%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/7	3/7
Converted %	43%	43%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	2/4	2
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	2	2

Tennis Scores in Tokyo

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• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jack DraperDraper – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

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