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Tomic and Nishikori have vastly differing game styles, making for an interesting match up. He began against 21-year-old Hubert Hurkacz, the world #122, and looked solid as he won 6-4 6-2 7-6 in an hour and 37 minutes, picking up his first Grand Slam match win since January last year. There, however, he was dismissed by Ruben Bemelmans, and was fortunate to reach the main draw as a lucky loser. Tomic's tournament began in the qualifying where he looked sharp in defeating Matteo Donati and Tomislav Brkic to reach the final round. But he hung tough to win 6-2 4-6 7-6 6-2 in a little over two and a half hours. But Harrison played well, and Nishikori appeared to be in trouble in the third set. He had what looked to be an easy first round against world #198 Christian Harrison. Nishikori arrived in Wimbledon looking for an upturn in form after defeat in the fourth round in Paris to Dominic Thiem and a 2-6 2-6 hammering taken at the hands of Karen Khachanov in Halle in the second round. This will be the first time they have faced off in a best of five sets encounter. Their match at the London Olympics, when the All England Club hosted the tennis tournament, was the only time the two have met on grass. He got his revenge in Brisbane in 2016 with a 6-3 1-6 6-3 win, again in the quarterfinals, before winning later that year in Cincinnati 7-6 7-6.
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Since then, however, Tomic has won both matches. It was three years later when they faced each other again, this time in Brisbane, and again Nishikori got the job done with a 6-0 6-4 victory in the quarterfinals. Arguably their highest profile match was the first time they met, at the London Olympics in the first round back in 2012 with Nishikori winning a tight one 7-6 7-6. Nishikori and Tomic have played one another on four occasions in their careers, and have split the wins in those matches.