Kei Nishikori and Nicolas Alvarez Varona will play each other in the 1st round of the Helsinki Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:30 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 2 sets.
Kei Nishikori -> 1.144
Nicolas Alvarez Varona -> 5
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Prediction and head to head Kei Nishikori vs. Nicolas Alvarez Varona
There is no head to head record between Kei Nishikori and Nicolas Alvarez Varona since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Kei Nishikori
15 - 11win/loss
105
4
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-11 | 7-5 | 5-3 | 8-2 | 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. 132, the Japanese will start his run in the Helsinki Challenger after he played his last match in the Bratislava 2 Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Safiullin in the semifinal on the 2nd of November.
Nishikori has an overall 15-11 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
The Japanese’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Bratislava 2 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Nishikori has an overall 585-274 record. He has a positive 104-43 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Helsinki Challenger
Nishikori has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicolas Alvarez Varona
39 - 22win/loss
375
219
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 40-25 | 4-3 | 33-18 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 9-9 | 3-2 | 6-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-34 | 3-7 | 13-19 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-26 | 11-8 | 29-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 28-9 | 21-6 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 384, the Spaniard reached the 1st round after beating Otso Martikainen 6-3 6-3 and Jelle Sels 4-6 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications against Sels, Nicolas recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-1). During the match Alvarez scored 88 points vs Sels’s 65. Nicolas was very aggressive to blast 42 winners.
About the serving games, Alvarez managed to score 5 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Nicolas Alvarez Varona was extremely effective on serve to win 82% (42/51) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Nicolas broke Sels 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Alvarez started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Alvarez’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Gijon,M25 Oviedo and M25 Sabadell.
Nicolas has a composed 39-22 win-loss record in 2024, 2-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Helsinki Challenger
- Henri SquireSquire – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Patrick KaukovaltaKaukovalta – Oskari PaldaniusPaldanius (6-3 4-6 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jerome KymKym – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Max Hans RehbergHans Rehberg – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (6-4 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Alexis GautierGautier (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Sandro KoppKopp (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jacob FearnleyFearnley – Valentin RoyerRoyer (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Oliver OjakaarOjakaar (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emilio NavaNava – Alibek KachmazovKachmazov (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- August HolmgrenHolmgren – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Henri SquireSquire – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jacob FearnleyFearnley – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H and prediction