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Kei Nishikori vs Lloyd HarrisPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats

🇯🇵Kei Nishikori

Unranked

1–1

2 meetings · sets 3–2

🇿🇦Lloyd Harris

#110 · 29 yrs · R

TitleWon Jingshan Challenger

Kei Nishikori and Lloyd Harris have met 2 times since 2021; they are level 1–1. Their first meeting came at Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships - Dubai in 2021 on hard. On hard courts they are level 1–1. Across all meetings Nishikori has taken 3 sets to Harris's 2. Their most recent meeting: Kei Nishikori won at Citi Open - Washington (2021).

Spread & Straight-Sets Form

Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months

Indicator	Nishikori	Harris
Indicator	Kei Nishikori		Lloyd Harris
Wins in straight sets	45%	5/11	65%	24/37
Wins a set when losing	40%	4/10	56%	9/16
Goes to a deciding set	48%	10/21	42%	22/53
Covers −1.5 sets as favorite	42%	5/12	51%	23/45
Covers +1.5 sets as underdog	56%	5/9	38%	3/8
Tiebreak sets won	40%	2/5	43%	10/23
Wins after taking set 1	82%	9/11	85%	28/33
Wins 2-0 after taking set 1	45%	5/11	73%	24/33

Colored rows are higher-is-better: green above 50%, red below. Favorite/underdog set by book odds; cover rows count only matches with odds on record. Head-to-head: 1 of 2 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Nishikori 1, Harris 0).

Style Matchup

Playing styles and historical archetype record

Nishikori

🏹 Frontrunner

Fast startsAggressive openersMomentum-drivenStrong holds

Harris

🤖 Servebot

High ace rateDominant serviceWeaker returnBig first serve

Matchup analysis

The 🤖 Servebot archetype wins about 54% vs 🏹 Frontrunner across 1,115 matches in our dataset: a stylistic lean toward Lloyd Harris.

Servebot players often use high ace rate and dominant service to pressure the frontrunner's fast starts.

Previous meetings

2 career meetings, newest first

Aug 6, 2021

Citi Open - Washington

H Hard · Quarterfinals

Nishikori

Mar 18, 2021

Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships - Dubai

H Hard · Quarterfinals

Harris

Prop Research

Hit rates on common betting markets · Last 90 days

Outcome	Nishikori	Harris
Outcome	Kei Nishikori		Lloyd Harris
1 or more	67%	4/6	97%	30/31
3 or more	33%	2/6	97%	30/31
5 or more	17%	1/6	84%	26/31
10 or more	0%	0/6	52%	16/31
15 or more	0%	0/6	16%	5/31
20 or more	0%	0/6	7%	2/31

Player ROI

Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days

Metric	Nishikori	Harris
W-L	4–5	25–7
Avg odds	2.70	1.62
ROI %	-15.7%	+13.1%
Units P/L	-1.41u	+4.19u

Small sample: ROI stabilizes with more matches; fewer than 10 in the window is noisy.

Travel

Last 30 days

Metric	Nishikori	Harris
Countries	1	1
Events	1	4
Matches	1	14
Distance	0 mi · 0 km	1,797 mi · 2,892 km
Route	JPN	CHN

Host country from each tournament in the last 30 days, including the current event even when a player arrived on a bye. Route is the order of countries visited; consecutive stops in the same country are shown once. Distance is the great-circle total between host cities, shown only when every stop in the window is geocoded. A rough fatigue signal, not a headline stat.

Common opponents

Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months

Harris has a higher win rate against shared opponents (100% vs Nishikori's 0%).

Opponent	Nishikori	Harris
Jack Kennedy	L 36 76 06	W 64 62 62
Vit Kopriva	L	W 75 64

Recent Form

Last five matches per player

Nishikori

LLWWLWLL

Frances Tiafoe

Japan Open Tennis Championships - Tokyo · 1st Round

Oct 1

Rei Sakamoto

U.S. Open - New York · 3rd Round Qualifying

6³7

Aug 28

Michael Antonius

U.S. Open - New York · 2nd Round Qualifying

Aug 27

Sebastian Ofner

U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round Qualifying

Aug 25

Marco Trungelliti

Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 3rd Round Qualifying

Aug 12

Francisco Comesana

Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 1st Round Qualifying

Aug 11

Michael Zheng

National Bank Open - Montreal · 3rd Round Qualifying

Aug 1

Rafael Jodar

Citi Open - Washington · 2nd Round

Jul 30

Harris

LWWWWWWL

Chak Pong Marco Lam

Shanghai Rolex Masters - Shanghai · 3rd Round Qualifying

Oct 6

Alex Bolt

Shanghai Rolex Masters - Shanghai · 1st Round Qualifying

Oct 5

Mattia Bellucci

Jingshan Challenger · Final

76⁴

Oct 4

Alex Bolt

Jingshan Challenger · Semifinals

Oct 3

Andre Ilagan

Jingshan Challenger · Quarterfinals

Oct 2

Luka Pavlovic

Jingshan Challenger · 2nd Round

Oct 1

Alexis Galarneau

Jingshan Challenger · 1st Round

Sep 30

Hubert Hurkacz

Chengdu Open - Chengdu · Quarterfinals

6¹⁰7

Sep 27

Rivalry momentum

Cumulative head-to-head lead over time

↑ Nishikorilevel↓ Harris

Win rate

Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 21–55 matches

Metric	Nishikori	Harris
Matches won	52%	69%
Sets won	50%	64%
Games won	50%	55%

Record by tier

Head-to-head record by tournament tier

Stage	Nishikori	Harris
ATP 500	1	1

By surface

Head-to-head record per surface

Surface	Nishikori	Harris
Hard	1	1

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Kei Nishikori vs Lloyd Harris FAQ

The head-to-head is level at 1–1 over 2 meetings.

Spread & Straight-Sets Form

Style Matchup

Previous meetings

Prop Research

Player ROI

Travel

Common opponents

Recent Form

Rivalry momentum

Win rate

Record by tier

By surface

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