Aleksandar Vukic and Yoshihito Nishioka will play each other in the qualifications of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 6^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on SHOW COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aleksandar Vukic who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Aleksandar Vukic is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandar Vukic -> 1.7
Yoshihito Nishioka -> 2.06

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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Vukic vs. Yoshihito Nishioka

This will be the 6^th time that Aleksandar Vukic and Yoshihito Nishioka clash against each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Nishioka (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Nishioka won 6-3 6-4 in the 1^st round in Delray beach back in February 2025.

Aleksandar Vukic

Ranked no. 95, Vukic reached the qualifications after defeating Marc-Andrea Huesler 1-6 7-5 7-6(5).

In the qualifications against Huesler, Vukic recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 7-5 7-6⁵

).During the match, Vukic scored less points (7) than Huesler. In fact, the world no. 95 won 96 points vs Huesler’s. That means that Vukic was more focused during the important points. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Regarding the service games, Vukic made 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Aleksandar Vukic lost the serve 3 times. Furthermore, Vukic put 63% of his first serves in, winning 67% (37/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 61% (20/33) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Huesler twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

Vukic has positive record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (279-234). 15-18 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Vukic has a composed 148-124 match record in the last years on hard.

Vukic’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Estoril Challenger.

Vukic has a compiled 25-32 win-loss record in 2025, 15-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

Yoshihito Nishioka

Ranked no. 157, will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Shanghai where he beat 6-3 6-2 to Noguchi in the qualifications on the 29^th of September.

The Japanese has an overall 10-20 win-loss record in 2025, 6-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

In terms of his career, Yoshihito has an overall 433-292 record. He has a positive 244-161 record on hard.

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Vukic	Nishioka
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	3	2
Tot Games	32	17
Pts	96-103	61-47
Total Points	199	108
Winners	37	28
%Winners	39%	46%

Both Vukic and Nishioka played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Aleksandar Vukic dropped 1 set while Yoshihito Nishioka hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Vukic has played 1 set more than Nishioka (3 vs 2). Therefore, Vukic played 15 games more than Nishioka. Aleksandar scored 37 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Nishioka made 28 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Vukic	Nishioka
Aces	9	6
Avg per match	9	6
1st in	55/88	36/60
%1st in	63%	60%
1st pts	37/55	28/36
%1st pts	67%	78%
2nd pts	20/33	13/24
%2nd pts	61%	54%

Vukic managed to score 9 aces . Nishioka struck 6 aces . Vukic won 67% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Nishioka won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Vukic	Nishioka
Won	2	3
Converted	2/7	3/4
% Converted	29%	75%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	0	3
% Saved	0%	100%
Times Broken	3	0

The Australian broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. The Australian dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Yoshihito broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Yoshihito was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

Vukic
	Q1 Huesler	Total
Score	1-6 7-5 7-65
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	32	32
pts	96-103	96-103
Total points	199	199
Winners	37	37
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	9	9
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	55/88	55/88
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	37/55	37/55
% 1st pts	67%	67%
2nd pts	20/33	20/33
% 2nd pts	61%	61%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/7	2/7
Converted %	29%	29%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	0/3	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	3	3

Nishioka
	Total
Score
Tot Set	0
Tot Games	0
pts	0-0
Total points	0
Winners	0
%Winners	0%
SERVE
Aces	0
Double Faults	0
1st in	0/0
% 1st in	0%
1st pts	0/0
% 1st pts	0%
2nd pts	0/0
% 2nd pts	0%
Breaks
Won	0
Converted	0/0
Converted %	0%
Conceded	0
Saved	0
Saved %	0%
Times Broken	0

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