

What Time Will Maximilian Marterer Play Against Yoshihito Nishioka?
Marterer and Nishioka are on the Day 2 Schedule at Hangzhou Open 2024 on Thursday 19 September 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?
The upcoming match between Maximilian Marterer (GER) and Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) will be their first tour-level meeting. However, they have previously met in the qualifying round of the Munich Q tournament in Germany, where Nishioka defeated Marterer with a score of 6-2 6-2 on clay.
Marterer, at the age of 29, is currently ranked World No. 105 with a career-high ranking of No. 45 achieved in August 2018. He has had a challenging career, including a left knee injury that caused him to fall as low as No. 379 in February 2020. One of his notable achievements was defeating No. 16 Schwartzman, which marked the biggest win of his career and led him to reach his first ATP Tour semifinal at the 2018 Munich tournament. Marterer also ended a winless streak of 0-14 in tour-level matches by advancing to the third round of the 2018 Australian Open and the fourth round of the 2018 Roland Garros. He has successfully qualified for seven Grand Slam events, including the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open in 2022. In his career, Marterer has a win-loss record of 40-76 with two semifinal appearances. He has a strong record in the Challenger circuit, going 163-111 (with a 9-5 record in finals), and his most recent title was in Danderyd in 2023. However, in the 2024 season, Marterer has struggled on hard courts with a record of 2-7, with his only victories coming in Davis Cup play. Additionally, he has a 2-11 record against top 100 players on tour-level matches in 2024, with wins over No. 36 Thompson in the Roland Garros first round
and No. 52 Lajovic in the Paris Olympics first round, both matches played on clay. On hard courts, he has not managed to secure any victories (0-6).
Nishioka, aged 28, is currently ranked World No. 54, with a career-high ranking of No. 24 reached in June 2023. He achieved this after advancing to the fourth round of both the 2023 Australian Open and Roland Garros, marking the first time in his career to reach that stage in Grand Slam tournaments. Notably, Nishioka’s biggest career win came against No. 2 Ruud en route to his second ATP Tour title at the 2022 Seoul tournament. He also had a remarkable victory against Shapovalov, saving two match points en route to his first title at the 2018 Shenzhen tournament when he was ranked 171st as a qualifier. Nishioka has shown his resilience in several matches, rallying from a set down three times on his way to the 2020 Delray Beach final and saving one match point against de Minaur en route to the 2022 Washington final, before ultimately winning his third title at the 2024 Atlanta tournament. Another notable achievement was defeating his compatriot and World No. 5 Nishikori en route to the quarterfinals of the 2019 ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati as a qualifier. It is worth mentioning that Nishioka has maintained an impressive 14-0 record against players ranked outside the top 100 on the tour-level since the start of the 2023 season (20-4 across all levels). Additionally, during the 2023 Asian swing, Nishioka reached the final of the Zhuhai tournament but lost to Khachanov in the final.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Marterer will win.
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