TENNIS SCORES. Brandon Nakashima upsets Kwiatkowski in the 2nd round in the Cary Challenger

Brandon Nakashima surprises Thai Kwiatkowski 7-6⁴ 6-4 in the 2^nd round in Cary Challenger on Wednesday. Nakashima will engage against Tommy Paul in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Eventually, Brandon won the breaker at 4.

2^nd set.

The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Nakashima conquered in the 5^th game (3-2) before winning the set (6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Brandon scored 78 points vs. Kwiatkowski’s 63 points.

Nakashima served very well to win 89% of the points (32/36) behind his first serve, and he won 64% points (18/28) on his second serve. Nakashima fired 12 aces and he committed 1 double fault. Nakashima won this match even if he was struggling in finding the solution in converting his break points as he converted only 17% (1/6). On the other side, Thai wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for his demise.

After this match, the head to head between Nakashima and Kwiatkowski is 1-0.

Next Match: Brandon Nakashima vs. Tommy Paul – stats

Nakashima will compete against Paul in the 3^rd round.

There is no head to head record between Brandon Nakashima and Tommy Paul since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger

• Daniel NguyenNguyen – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (7-6⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Michael RedlickiRedlicki (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• John-Patrick SmithSmith – Nicolas MejiaMejia (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Tommy PaulPaul – Ryan PenistonPeniston (6-4 7-6³) – See score progression
• Andreas SeppiSeppi – Liam BroadyBroady (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Ben PataelPatael – Marcos GironGiron (2-6 7-5 ret.) – See score progression
• Ulises BlanchBlanch – Christian LangmoLangmo (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Jc AragoneAragone – Peter PolanskyPolansky (7-6⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Michael MmohMmoh – Alexander SarkissianSarkissian (5-7 7-6⁴ 6-0) – See score progression
• Christopher EubanksEubanks – Liam CaruanaCaruana (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Donald YoungYoung – Renzo OlivoOlivo (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Martin RedlickiRedlicki (6-4 6-7⁹ 6-2) – See score progression
• Noah RubinRubin – Evan SongSong (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Kevin KingKing (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (1-6 7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andreas SeppiSeppi – John-Patrick SmithSmith (1-0) – See H2H details
• Donald YoungYoung – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (0-0) – See H2H details
• Daniel NguyenNguyen – Jc AragoneAragone (0-0) – See H2H details
• Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (0-0) – See H2H details
• Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Michael MmohMmoh (0-0) – See H2H details
• Noah RubinRubin – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ulises BlanchBlanch – Ben PataelPatael (0-0) – See H2H details
• Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Tommy PaulPaul (0-0) – See H2H details