TENNIS SCORES. Paul downs Nakashima in the 3rd round of the the Cary Challenger

Tommy Paul topples Brandon Nakashima 7-6⁰ 6-4 in the 3^rd round in Cary Challenger on Thursday. Paul will have to play Michael Mmoh in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Paul clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 4^th (1-3) game, Tommy broke back in the 5^th (2-3) game before winning the set at the following breaker at 0.

2^nd set.

Nakashima took off at the beginning of the set after breaking Paul in the 1^st game (1-0). However, Paul succeeded in coming back to break Nakashima 3 times in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 6^th (3-3) gamein the 10^th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Paul scored 92 points vs. Nakashima’s 71 points.

Tommy won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points as he converted only 31% (4/13). On the other side, Nakashima had a tough time in converting his break points since he converted only 38% of his break points (3/8). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.

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

Next Match: Tommy Paul vs. Michael Mmoh – stats

Paul will face Mmoh in the quarter.

This will be the 2^nd time that Tommy Paul and Michael Mmoh play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Paul (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Paul won 5-7 7-6³ 7-6³ in the qualifications in Atlanta back in July 2019.

Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger

• Jc AragoneAragone – Daniel NguyenNguyen (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Ulises BlanchBlanch – Ben PataelPatael (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Noah RubinRubin – Christopher EubanksEubanks (6-4 6-7³ 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Tommy PaulPaul – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (7-6⁰ 6-4) – See score progression
• Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Donald YoungYoung (6-1 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Andreas SeppiSeppi – John-Patrick SmithSmith (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Michael MmohMmoh – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (6-1 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Andreas SeppiSeppi – Noah RubinRubin (0-0) – See H2H details
• Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (0-0) – See H2H details
• Jc AragoneAragone – Ulises BlanchBlanch (0-0) – See H2H details
• Michael MmohMmoh – Tommy PaulPaul (0-1) – See H2H details