Kei Nishikori and Lukas Klein will square off in the 2^nd round of the Bratislava 2 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kei Nishikori who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Kei Nishikori is the pick to win this match.
Kei Nishikori -> 1.85
Lukas Klein -> 1.87

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Prediction and head to head Kei Nishikori vs. Lukas Klein

There is no head to head record between Kei Nishikori and Lukas Klein since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Kei Nishikori

Ranked no. 140, Nishikori got to the 2^nd round after beating Marton Fucsovics 6-2 1-6 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Kei defeated Fucsovics (6-2 1-6 6-1). During the match, Nishikori scored 73 points vs Fucsovics’s 61. Nishikori was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Regarding the service games, Nishikori wasn’t able to score even 1 ace during the match and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults. Overall, Kei Nishikori was pretty effective on serve to win 71% (34/48) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Nishikori broke Fucsovics 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Nishikori has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 69% of his matches (270-120). 1-1 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Nishikori has a composed 46-20 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

Kei has an overall 13-10 win-loss record in 2024, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Bratislava 2 Challenger

The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.

Lukas Klein

Ranked no. 146, Klein got to the 2^nd round after defeating Otto Virtanen 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Klein had a good straight sets win against Virtanen (6-3 6-4). During the match Klein scored 58 points vs Virtanen’s 45. Klein was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.

About the serving games, Klein recorded 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Lukas Klein conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Klein put 71% of his first serves in, winning 86% (32/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (6/15) on the 2nd serve. Lukas was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Virtanen 3 times.

Klein has a compiled 29-22 win-loss record in 2024, 1-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Bratislava 2 Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2020. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Nishikori	Klein
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	22	19
Pts	73-61	58-45
Total Points	134	103
Winners	34	32
%Winners	47%	55%

Both Nishikori and Klein played 1 match. At the moment, Kei Nishikori dropped 1 set while Lukas Klein hasn’t conceded a set so far. Nishikori has played 1 set more than Klein (3 vs 2). Therefore, Nishikori played 3 games more than Klein. Kei scored 34 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Klein managed to score 32 winners (55%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Nishikori	Klein
Aces	0	2
Avg per match	0	2
1st in	48/64	37/52
%1st in	75%	71%
1st pts	34/48	32/37
%1st pts	71%	86%
2nd pts	10/16	6/15
%2nd pts	63%	40%

Nishikori didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Klein bagged 2 aces . Nishikori won 71% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Klein won 86% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 40% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Nishikori	Klein
Won	4	3
Converted	4/7	3/3
% Converted	57%	100%
Conceded	6	2
Saved	4	2
% Saved	67%	100%
Times Broken	2	0

The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Nishikori conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Lukas broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Klein was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.

Nishikori
	R1 Fucsovics	Total
Score	6-2 1-6 6-1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	22	22
pts	73-61	73-61
Total points	134	134
Winners	34	34
%Winners	47%	47%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	48/64	48/64
% 1st in	75%	75%
1st pts	34/48	34/48
% 1st pts	71%	71%
2nd pts	10/16	10/16
% 2nd pts	63%	63%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/7	4/7
Converted %	57%	57%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	4/6	4
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	2	2

Klein
	R1 Virtanen	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	58-45	58-45
Total points	103	103
Winners	32	32
%Winners	55%	55%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	37/52	37/52
% 1st in	71%	71%
1st pts	32/37	32/37
% 1st pts	86%	86%
2nd pts	6/15	6/15
% 2nd pts	40%	40%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/3	3/3
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	2/2	2
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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