Nikoloz Basilashvili and Naoya Honda will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on Center Court. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nikoloz Basilashvili who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nikoloz Basilashvili is the pick to win this match.
Nikoloz Basilashvili -> 1.145
Naoya Honda -> 4.7
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Prediction and head to head Nikoloz Basilashvili vs. Naoya Honda
There is no head to head record between Nikoloz Basilashvili and Naoya Honda since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Nikoloz Basilashvili
19 - 27win/loss
124
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LWWLWWWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 26-30 | 11-12 | 12-12 | 1-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 41-29 | 18-13 | 9-10 | 9-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 51-32 | 11-8 | 27-15 | 13-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 4-19 | 1-8 | 0-5 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-31 | 3-11 | 5-9 | 4-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 131, the Georgean will start his run in the Guangzhou Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-3 7-6(1) to Chan Hong in the qualifications on the 25th of August.
Nikoloz has a compiled 19-27 win-loss record in 2026, 4-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Basilashvili has an overall 503-447 record. He has a positive 198-177 record on hard.
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2016. See his history.
Naoya Honda
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31-26 | 25-22 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 25-28 | 19-20 | 3-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 5-11 | 5-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 7-2 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 656, Naoya got to the 1st round after beating Hao Duan 6-2 6-3 and Jesse Flores 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Naoya had a good straight sets win against Flores (6-4 6-4). During the match Honda scored 56 points vs Flores’s 44. Honda was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Honda managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Naoya Honda was very efficient on serve to win 86% (25/29) of his 1st serve and 76% (16/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Japanese broke Flores twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Naoya started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 60% of the points he played.
ATP Guangzhou Challenger - Naoya Honda's projected path
Honda’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Tokyo and M25 Champaign.
The Japanese has an aggregate 30-23 win-loss record in 2026, 24-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Honda has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Guangzhou Challenger
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- Alexandr BindaBinda – Aoran WangWang (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jake DelaneyDelaney – Hikaru ShiraishiShiraishi (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pavel KotovKotov – Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki (7-64 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo – Omar JasikaJasika (6-76 6-2 1-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Petr Bar BiryukovBar Biryukov – Jesse DelaneyDelaney (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fajing SunSun – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (7-5 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marat SharipovSharipov – Thomas FancuttFancutt (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Akira SantillanSantillan – Yaojie ZengZeng (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elias YmerYmer – Semen PankinPankin (5-7 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Colin SinclairSinclair – Linang XiaoXiao (6-4 1-6 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Kaichi UchidaUchida (3-6 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Bernard TomicTomic – Jake DelaneyDelaney (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elias YmerYmer – Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Colin SinclairSinclair – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Akira SantillanSantillan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
