Prediction Of Nishikori Vs Navone H2H, Who Will Win At ATP Rolex Shanghai Masters 2024?

What Time Will Kei Nishikori Play Against Mariano Navone?

Nishikori and Navone are on the Day 1 Schedule at Rolex Shanghai Masters 2024 on Wednesday 2 October 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?

[WC] Kei Nishikori from Japan will be facing Mariano Navone from Argentina in their first-ever meeting. Nishikori is 34 years old and currently ranked as the World No. 200. His career-high ranking is No. 4, which he achieved in 2015. In 2014, Nishikori earned his biggest career win by defeating No. 1 Novak Djokovic at the US Open, becoming the first Asian male singles finalist in a Grand Slam tournament. He won his first ATP Tour title at the age of 18 in 2008, and he remains the youngest champion on the tour since Lleyton Hewitt in 1998. Nishikori has also achieved six ATP 500 titles, four ATP Masters 1000 finals, and has qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals four times. He also won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Nishikori holds the highest winning percentage in deciding sets among active players, with a record of 150 wins and 58 losses (.721).

Nishikori is participating in his seventh Shanghai main draw appearance, with his previous one being in 2018 when he reached the quarter-finals. In the recent ATP Masters 1000 event in Montreal, he became the second lowest-ranked quarter-finalist in the history of the series as the World No. 576 at that time.

On the other hand, Mariano Navone is 23 years old and currently ranked as the World No. 40. His career-high ranking is No. 29, which he achieved in June 2024 after winning his 6th Challenger title in Cagliari. Navone has had notable achievements in his career, such as being the first man in the Open Era to be seeded in his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2024 Roland Garros. He also reached the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final for the first time in his career at the 2024 Rio de Janeiro tournament, defeating No. 21 Francisco Cerundolo en route to his second ATP Tour final in Bucharest. Navone made his ATP Tour debut at the 2024 Cordoba as a wild card entry and qualified for Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in the following weeks. He earned his first ATP Tour win by defeating Coria in Rio de Janeiro. Navone had an impressive Challenger record in 2023, finishing the season with a 19-2 run and winning five Challenger titles. He began playing tennis at the age of 3 and is nicknamed La Navoneta.

Navone aims to secure his first ATP Masters 1000 win on hard courts, as his only previous win at this level was against No. 46 Alexei Popyrin in the first round of the Madrid tournament on clay earlier this year. Out of his 17 tour-level wins this season, 15 of them have been on clay courts.

The match between Nishikori and Navone will take place on Show Court 3.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Nishikori will win.
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