Kei Nishikori vs Novak Djokovic

US OPEN 2018 – Kei Nishikori vs Novak Djokovic MATCH PREVIEW

The second Semi Final is anticipated to be just as exciting as the first one. Two very good tennis players who are expected to have a ton of top level rallies. This is the 4th meeting of the year between Kei and Novak and Kei will be looking to reach his second US Open Final of his career and defeat Novak for the first time this year. Novak is also looking to add another GS to his legendary career.

Key Facts

Djokovic is 16-2 against Nishikori in their H2H.

Djokovic has won 14 straight matches against Kei, he’s 3-0 against him this year, 8-2 on hard courts, 3-1 in GS. However Nishikori has won their only meeting at the US Open back in 2014.

Djokovic is back to playing his best right now. He’s 20-1 in his last 21 matches and is currently on a 11 match winning streak.

Djokovic started the tournament a little slow dropping a set each to Fucsovics and Sandgren. However ever since Novak’s performance level has risen massively and he’s won 3 straight matches in straight sets. Gets better by competition.

This has been Nishikori’s best tournament of the year so far. He’s beaten some good competition including beating Cilic in 5 sets in the Quarter Final. Looks like Kei is finally starting to get back to the top 8 level again.

Betting Tips

Well, we look at these two and there’s clearly a huge gap between Djokovic and Nishikori. Even when Novak was struggling in the first half of the year, he managed to beat Kei twice. That 14 match win streak clearly points out the dominance that Djokovic has over Nishikori in the H2H. Djokovic literally dominates Kei on every surface in every aspect. Djokovic is playing at his absolute best right now while same can be said about Kei, we can’t see Nishikori having much of a chance to defeat Djokovic. Djokovic normally excels at these type of matches and we fully expect him to win this match in either 3 or 4 sets. Nishikori is totally capable of taking one set from this match but that’s about as much as he’ll do against Novak and even then it’s going to be very tough to do so. Djokovic’s -1.5 set Handicap at lower 1.60 odds and even a -2.5 handicap at 2.50 is what we’re thinking here. Novak just raises his level according to competition and we don’t see him failing to do so here.

Match Odds (TonyBet)

Kei Nishikori Win – 5.25

Novak Djokovic Win – 1.16