What Time Will Liam Broady Play Against Yoshihito Nishioka?
Broady and Nishioka are on the Day 2 Schedule at Rothesay International 2024 on Tuesday 25 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?
Liam Broady from Great Britain and Yoshihito Nishioka from Japan will be facing each other for the first time at the tour-level. However, they have previously met in the qualifying rounds of the 2016 Winston-Salem tournament, where Nishioka emerged victorious with a score of 6-2, 6-1.
Liam Broady, who is 30 years old, is currently ranked No. 146 in the world and achieved his career-high ranking of No. 93 in September 2023. In 2024, he has a record of 1 win and 2 losses, with the furthest he has progressed being the second round in Hong Kong. In the Eastbourne tournament, he has reached the second round in both 2021 and 2023.
An interesting fact about Broady is that he broke into the Top 100 at the age of 29, inspired by his older sister Naomi, who achieved this feat in the WTA singles and doubles rankings in 2016. He also had a breakthrough moment at the 2017 St. Petersburg tournament, where he defeated former World No. 10 Ernest Gulbis with a score of 6-3, 6-0 en route to his first ATP Tour quarterfinal appearance as a qualifier.
Broady’s first tour-level victory of his career came at the 2015 Wimbledon tournament, where he rallied from being two sets down to defeat Marinko Matosevic. He has also reached the third round at Wimbledon in both 2022 and 2023, where he notably defeated the 4th seed, Casper Ruud, in the second round of the 2023 edition.
In terms of his performance in the Challenger circuit, Broady has a record of 175 wins and 150 losses, including reaching nine finals but only managing to win two titles. After a disappointing start of losing his first seven finals, he turned it around by winning the titles at the 2021 Biel and 2023 Vilnius tournaments.
During his junior career, Broady was highly ranked, reaching the No. 2 spot in the world. He was the runner-up at the boys’ singles events in Wimbledon in 2011 and the US Open in 2012. He also won the boys’ doubles titles at Wimbledon in 2010 and the Australian Open in 2012 with his compatriots Farquharson and Ward Hibbert, respectively.
It is worth noting that Broady is returning to competition after suffering an ankle injury in March. Out of his 21 tour-level wins, he has earned 9 of them on grass, with 6 wins at Wimbledon and 2 wins at Eastbourne. Notable wins include defeating Frances Tiafoe in the first round of Wimbledon in 2021 and Constantin Choinski in the first round of Eastbourne in 2023.
Yoshihito Nishioka, aged 28, currently occupies the No. 102 spot in the world rankings, with his career-high ranking being No. 24 in June 2023. He achieved this milestone after reaching the fourth round of both the Australian Open and Roland Garros in 2023, marking the first time he advanced that far in Grand Slam tournaments.
The biggest win of Nishioka’s career came against the second-ranked Casper Ruud, as he went on to win his second ATP Tour title at the 2022 Seoul tournament. He also had an impressive victory over Denis Shapovalov in the 2018 Shenzhen tournament, where he saved two match points to capture his first ATP title as a qualifier, ranked 171st at the time.
In addition, Nishioka has shown great resilience in multiple tournaments. He rallied from being a set down on three occasions to reach the final of the 2020 Delray Beach event, and he saved one match point against Alex de Minaur en route to the 2022 Washington final.
Another notable feat of Nishioka is defeating his countryman and former World No. 5, Kei Nishikori, on his way to the quarterfinals of the 2019 ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati tournament, where he qualified.
Regarding his performance on grass, Nishioka has won only one tour-level match on this surface, which occurred in the first round of Wimbledon in 2021 when he defeated John Isner. He is currently on a 16-match winning streak against players ranked outside the Top 100 on the tour-level, with his last loss to a player ranked No. 124, Radu Albot, at the 2022 Australian Open.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Broady will win.
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