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Daniil Medvedev #32 def. Kei Nishikori #12

6-2 6-4

Match Information

Date	Oct 7, 2018*
Tournament	Tokyo
Category	ATP 500
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Daniil Medvedev
Score	6-2 6-4
Loser	Kei Nishikori
Duration	1h 3m

Stat	Daniil Medvedev	Kei Nishikori
Aces	8	4
Double faults	1	3
First serve %	63	65
First serve points won %	93	72
Second serve points won %	81	29
Break points saved %	100	40
Break points converted %	60	0
Service points won %	88	57
Return points won %	43	12
Total points won %	64	36

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Daniil Medvedev	Kei Nishikori
Country	RUS	JPN
Birth date	Feb 11, 1996	Dec 29, 1989
Age	22	28
Height	198	178
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	32	12
Ranking points (entering)	1,287	2,520
Elo (entering)	2,013	2,106
Career W-L	427–182	424–226
Career earnings	$51,948,560	$26,091,290

Pre-match H2H

Daniil Medvedev 0 – 1 Kei Nishikori

Path

Daniil Medvedev's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 6, 2018	SF	Denis Shapovalov	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 6, 2018	QF	Milos Raonic	7-6(4) 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 5, 2018	R16	Martin Klizan	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 4, 2018	R32	Diego Schwartzman	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 1, 2018	Q2	Egor Gerasimov	6-7(4) 6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 1, 2018	Q1	Hiroki Moriya	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Daniil Medvedev's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Kei Nishikori's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 6, 2018	SF	Richard Gasquet	7-6(2) 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 6, 2018	QF	Stefanos Tsitsipas	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 5, 2018	R16	Benoit Paire	6-3 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 4, 2018	R32	Yuichi Sugita	6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data