Marin Cilic and Nishesh Basavareddy will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Hangzhou Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 6:30 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Nishesh Basavareddy who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nishesh Basavareddy is the pick to win this match.
Nishesh Basavareddy -> 1.71
Marin Cilic -> 2.14

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Prediction and head to head Marin Cilic vs. Nishesh Basavareddy

There is no head to head record between Marin Cilic and Nishesh Basavareddy since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Marin Cilic

Ranked no. 59, Marin will start his run in Hangzhou after he played his last match in 3 where he lost 7-5 6-4 to Moutet in the Rubber 4 on the 13^th of September.

Cilic has a composed 22-14 win-loss record in 2025, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Girona Challenger where he overcame Elmer Moller in the final 6-3 6-4 and the Nottingham 2 Challenger where he defeated Shintaro Mochizuki in the final 6-2 6-3.

Talking about his overall career, Cilic has an overall 719-396 record. He has a positive 258-152 record on hard.

Previously in Hangzhou

Previously, he won this tournament once in 2024. See his history.

Nishesh Basavareddy

Ranked no. 109, the American got to the 1^st round after beating Beibit Zhukayev 6-2 7-6(3) and Gauthier Onclin 6-1 6-3.

In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Onclin (6-1 6-3). During the match Basavareddy scored 55 points vs Onclin’s 27. Basavareddy was quite aggressive to blast 18 winners.

Talking about serving, Basavareddy blasted 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Nishesh Basavareddy was pretty effective on serve to win 82% (18/22) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Nishesh broke Onclin 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 62% of the points he played.

Nishesh’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Auckland.

Nishesh has a composed 25-21 win-loss record in 2025, 20-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Hangzhou

Basavareddy has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Hangzhou

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