What Time Will Aleksandar Vukic Play Against Yoshihito Nishioka?
Vukic and Nishioka are on the Day 4 Schedule at Rothesay International 2024 on Thursday 27 June 2024. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.
Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?
In the upcoming match between Aleksandar Vukic and Yoshihito Nishioka, Vukic currently leads the head-to-head record 1-0. Their previous meeting was in the round of 16 at the Atlanta tournament in 2023, where Vukic won in three sets. However, Nishioka has also defeated Vukic in the past, in the round of 16 at the Kobe Challenger in 2018 and in the qualifying round at Eastbourne in 2024.
Aleksandar Vukic is 28 years old and currently ranked 81st in the world. His career-high ranking was 48th in August 2023. In 2024, he has a win-loss record of 10-15, including three quarterfinal appearances. Vukic achieved his first ATP Tour final at the 2023 Atlanta tournament, where he reached a career-high ranking.
Vukic has also reached the quarterfinals of several other ATP Tour events, including Adelaide-2 and Sofia in 2022, Marrakech and ‘s-Hertogenbosch in 2024, and Eastbourne in 2024. He also had a notable performance at the 2023 ATP Masters 1000 Toronto, where he qualified for the tournament and defeated the 15th-ranked player Borna Coric.
In addition to his ATP Tour performances, Vukic has had success in the Challenger circuit. He won titles at the 2022 Bengaluru-2 and 2023 Busan tournaments and reached the finals at the 2021 and 2022 Champaign tournaments. Before turning professional, Vukic was a three-time All-American for the University of Illinois from 2015-2018. He was born in Sydney after his family fled Montenegro during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
Vukic is aiming to reach his second ATP Tour semifinal, and his first on grass after his previous semifinal appearance at the 2023 Atlanta tournament on hard courts. He hopes to equal his personal-best record of 11 tour-level wins in a season, which he achieved in 2023.
This match between Vukic and Nishioka is the third quarterfinal qualifying rematch on record in ATP Tour history. The previous rematches involved Jozef Kovalik and Thiago Monteiro at the 2018 Hamburg tournament and Matthias Bachinger and Yannick Maden at the 2018 Metz tournament.
Yoshihito Nishioka is also 28 years old and currently ranked 102nd in the world. His career-high ranking was 24th in June 2023, which he achieved after reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open and Roland Garros for the first time in his career. Nishioka has had notable wins in his career, including defeating the second-ranked player Casper Ruud en route to winning his second ATP Tour title at the 2022 Seoul tournament.
Nishioka has saved match points in key matches, such as against Denis Shapovalov en route to winning his first ATP Tour title at the 2018 Shenzhen tournament as a qualifier ranked 171st. He has also rallied from a set down multiple times, including in the finals of the 2020 Delray Beach tournament and the 2022 Washington tournament.
In 2019, Nishioka defeated his compatriot and then World No. 5, Kei Nishikori, en route to reaching the quarterfinals of the ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati as a qualifier.
In terms of his grass court performance, Nishioka has won two out of three career grass tour-level matches this week, with a overall grass court record of 3-9. He is aiming to reach his eighth ATP Tour semifinal, his first on grass after seven semifinal appearances on hard courts. If he achieves this, he will become the fourth Japanese player to reach an ATP Tour semifinal on grass, following Nishikori, Matsuoka, and Sugita.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Vukic will win.
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