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Daniel Evans vs Kei Nishikori Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Daniel Evans seasons:20252024202320222021
Kei Nishikori seasons:20252024202320212020
🇬🇧 Daniel Evans
🇯🇵 Kei Nishikori
#244
230pts
Age: 36y 26d (1990-05-23)
Hand: R
Backhand: 1H
45pts
#713
(1989-12-29) Age: 36y 171d
Hand: R
Backhand: 2H
2 - 3
Wins: 40.0% - 60.0%
Hard 2–2Clay 0–1Grass 0–0
Slam 1–1Davis Cup 0–1Masters 1000 1–1
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Match Prediction

FavoriteUnderdog
82.3%17.7%
-466+341

H2H Preview

🇬🇧Daniel Evans and 🇯🇵Kei Nishikori have met 5 times. Kei Nishikori currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 3–2.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇬🇧Daniel Evans has compiled an overall career record of 161–186 across 347 matches, translating to a win rate of 46.40%. On hard courts his record stands at 120–119 (50.21%), while on clay he holds a 20–39 (33.90%) mark. On grass the numbers read 21–28 (42.86%) . Throughout his career he has won 2 titles (2 hard). Against Top 10 opponents his record reads 6–32 (15.79%).

🇯🇵Kei Nishikori, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 451–231 from 682 matches (66.13% win rate). His hard-court record is 301–152 (66.45%), on clay he stands at 107–52 (67.30%), and on grass he has gone 42–27 (60.87%) , with a carpet record of 1–0 (100.00%). He has accumulated 12 titles in total (10 hard, 2 clay). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 40–78 (33.90%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. On hard courts they have met 4 times, the record is tied 2–2 (50.00% each). The clay record between them sits at 1–0 (100.00% for Kei Nishikori) across 1 matches.

Dateâ–¼
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
2021-10-04Indian Wells MastersHardR6422🇬🇧Daniel Evans (18)53🇯🇵Kei Nishikori4-6 6-3 6-431674561.2%80.0%44.7%10/12
2020-09-28Roland GarrosClayR12835🇯🇵Kei Nishikori34🇬🇧Daniel Evans (32)1-6 6-1 7-6(3) 1-6 6-452291264.6%60.7%50.0%10/18
2017-03-06Indian Wells MastersHardR645🇯🇵Kei Nishikori (4)41🇬🇧Daniel Evans6-3 6-43841169.0%72.5%44.4%4/6
2016-03-04Davis Cup WG R1: GBR vs JPNHardRR6🇯🇵Kei Nishikori157🇬🇧Daniel Evans6-3 7-5 7-6(3)51645355.0%61.8%66.7%9/13
2013-08-26US OpenHardR128179🇬🇧Daniel Evans (Q)12🇯🇵Kei Nishikori (11)6-4 6-4 6-251178448.4%73.9%53.1%7/9

Wins

Daniel Evans
Kei Nishikori
2–3Overall
1–1Grand Slam
1–1Masters 1000
0–1Davis Cup
2–2Hard
0–1Clay

Sets Format

50.0%1
50.0%1
Bo3
33.3%1
66.7%2
Bo5
0.0%0
100.0%1
2 Sets
66.7%2
33.3%1
3 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
100.0%1
5 Sets
Daniel Evans
Kei Nishikori

Deciding

50.0%1
50.0%1
Decider Set
0.0%0
100.0%2
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
100.0%1
After 3 hours
Daniel Evans
Kei Nishikori

Sets

43.8%7
56.3%9
All
62.5%5
37.5%3
Grand Slam
40.0%2
60.0%3
Masters 1000
45.5%5
54.5%6
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
40.0%2
60.0%3
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Daniel Evans
Kei Nishikori

Games

50.6%78
49.4%76
All
56.9%41
43.1%31
Grand Slam
47.9%23
52.1%25
Masters 1000
50.0%55
50.0%55
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
52.3%23
47.7%21
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Daniel Evans
Kei Nishikori

Overview

By Surface

Daniel Evans
Kei Nishikori

By Tournament Level

Daniel Evans
Kei Nishikori

By Round

Daniel Evans
Kei Nishikori

By Opponent Ranking

Daniel EvansKei Nishikori
33.3%1-2
vs Top 1
9.5%2-19
6.7%1-14
vs Top 5
26.5%18-50
15.8%6-32
vs Top 10
33.9%40-78
31.5%28-61
vs Top 20
41.7%80-112
45%134-164
vs Top 100
62.4%352-212
54.2%26-22
vs +100
83.6%97-19
40.6%73-107
vs Higher
41.8%94-131
52.4%87-79
vs Lower
78%355-100

Opponent Breakdown

Daniel EvansKei Nishikori
44.2%103-130
Vs Younger
68.5%137-63
50.9%58-56
Vs Older
65.1%314-168
46.4%136-157
Vs Right-Handed
65.8%387-201
46.3%25-29
Vs Left-Handed
68.1%64-30
49.8%147-148
Vs 2H Backhand
67.9%364-172
28%14-36
Vs 1H Backhand
59.1%81-56
0%0-9
Vs Shorter
69.8%30-13
47.1%156-175
Vs Taller
66%402-207

Pressure Situations