Salvatore Caruso and Brandon Nakashima will fight against each other in the 3rd round of the Indian Wells Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:30 pm on COURT 19. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Brandon Nakashima who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Brandon Nakashima is the pick to win this match.
Brandon Nakashima -> 1.25
Salvatore Caruso -> 3.75
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Prediction and head to head Salvatore Caruso vs. Brandon Nakashima
There is no head to head record between Salvatore Caruso and Brandon Nakashima since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Salvatore Caruso
Ranked no. 100, the Italian got to the 3rd round after defeating Thai Kwiatkowski 6-4 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Salvatore had a good straight sets win against Kwiatkowski (6-4 6-2). During the match Caruso scored 69 points vs Kwiatkowski’s 55. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Caruso blasted 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Salvatore Caruso was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (22/29) of his 1st serve and 60% (25/42) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Caruso was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Kwiatkowski 3 times.
Caruso has a weak win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 42% of his matches (286-204). 3-5 on hard in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Caruso has a 294-225 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.
The Italian has a 4-8 win-loss record in 2020, 3-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Indian Wells Challenger
Salvatore lost in the quarter 7-64 6-3 to Lloyd Harris.
Brandon Nakashima
Ranked no. 255 (career high), the American reached the 3rd round after defeating Liam Broady 6-2 6-3 and Yuichi Sugita 6-3 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Brandon had a good straight sets win against Sugita (6-3 6-2). During the match Nakashima scored 71 points vs Sugita’s 52. Brandon was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Nakashima blasted 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Brandon Nakashima was extremely effective on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Brandon broke Sugita 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 59% of the points he played.
Nakashima has a fantastic record in the last 5 years having won 71% of his matches (146-61). 9-2 on hard in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Nakashima has a 60-29 record in the last 5 years on hard.
Brandon’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Rancho Santa Fe.
The American has a 14-5 win-loss record in 2020, 9-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Indian Wells Challenger
Nakashima lost in the 1st round 6-1 6-4 to Jc Aragone.
Live score
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H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Caruso | Nakashima |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 34 |
| Pts | 69-55 | 137-97 |
| Total Points | 124 | 234 |
| Winners | 22 | 47 |
| %Winners | 32% | 34% |
Caruso played 1 match while Nakashima competed in 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Caruso has played 2 sets less than Nakashima (2 vs 4). Therefore, Caruso played 16 games less than Nakashima. Salvatore scored 22 winners (32% on total points). On the other side, Brandon blasted 47 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Caruso | Nakashima |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 4.5 |
| 1st in | 29/71 | 59/99 |
| %1st in | 41% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 22/29 | 47/59 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 25/42 | 23/40 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 58% |
Caruso blasted 5 aces . Nakashima blasted 9 aces (4.5 per match). Caruso won 76% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Nakashima won 80% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Caruso | Nakashima |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 8 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 8/18 |
| % Converted | 100% | 44% |
| Conceded | 8 | 2 |
| Saved | 8 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Italian broke his opponent 3 times with 100% conversion rate. Caruso was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 8 break points. Nakashima broke his opponents 8 times with 44% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Caruso | |||
| R2 Kwiatkowski |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 69-55 | 69-55 | |
| Total points | 124 | 124 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 29/71 | 29/71 | |
| % 1st in | 41% | 41% | |
| 1st pts | 22/29 | 22/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 25/42 | 25/42 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 8/8 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | -100 | |
| Nakashima | ||||
| R1 Broady |
R2 Sugita |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | 34 | |
| pts | 66-45 | 71-52 | 137-97 | |
| Total points | 111 | 123 | 234 | |
| Winners | 21 | 26 | 47 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 37% | 34% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 6 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 26/46 | 33/53 | 59/99 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 62% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 26/33 | 47/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 79% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 12/20 | 23/40 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 60% | 58% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 3/8 | 8/18 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 38% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 0/0 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | – | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | -50 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Yuichi SugitaSugita (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Raymond SarmientoSarmiento – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Romain ArneodoArneodo (4-6 6-1 7-68) – See score progression
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Mischa ZverevZverev (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Ryan PenistonPeniston (6-2 7-64) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (7-5 7-66) – See score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Noah RubinRubin – Lucas PouillePouille (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Michael MmohMmoh (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Michael RedlickiRedlicki (7-64 6-0) – See score progression
- Jack SockSock – Ugo HumbertHumbert (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Taro DanielDaniel (0-0) – See H2H details
- Denis KudlaKudla – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – See H2H details
- Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Marcos GironGiron (0-0) – See H2H details
- Raymond SarmientoSarmiento – Noah RubinRubin (1-0) – See H2H details
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jack SockSock – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (0-0) – See H2H details
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (1-0) – See H2H details
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-1) – See H2H details
