Brandon Nakashima and Arthur Rinderknech will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:30 pm on COURT 3. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Brandon Nakashima who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Brandon Nakashima is the pick to win this match.
Brandon Nakashima -> 1.58
Arthur Rinderknech -> 2.32

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Prediction and head to head Brandon Nakashima vs. Arthur Rinderknech

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

Brandon Nakashima

Ranked no. 170, Nakashima got to the 2nd round after beating Cem Ilkel 3-6 6-4 6-3.

In the 1st round against Ilkel, Brandon recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-4 6-3). During the match Nakashima scored 83 points vs Ilkel’s 74. The American was very aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Talking about the service games, Nakashima made 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Brandon Nakashima was extremely efficient on serve to win 73% (36/49) of his 1st serve and 56% (19/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The American broke Ilkel 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Nakashima has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 65% of his matches (67-36). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Nakashima has a 14-7 record in the last 6 years on indoor hard courts.

Brandon has a 1-1 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Istanbul Challenger

Nakashima didn’t compete in the Istanbul Challenger in 2020.

Arthur Rinderknech

Ranked no. 178, Arthur got to the 2nd round after defeating Zdenek Kolar 6-4 6-3, Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-3 6-3 and Prajnesh Gunneswaran 6-4 3-2 ret..

In the 1st round, Rinderknech had a good straight sets win against Gunneswaran (6-4 3-2 ret.). During the match Rinderknech scored 50 points vs Gunneswaran’s 38. Arthur was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about serving, Rinderknech scored 3 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Arthur Rinderknech was quite effective on serve to win 91% (21/23) of his 1st serve and 78% (7/9) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Rinderknech broke Gunneswaran twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).

Rinderknech has a 5-1 win-loss record in 2021, 3-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Nakashima Rinderknech
Match played 1 2
Tot Set 3 4
Tot Games 28 37
Pts 83-74 123-93
Total Points 157 216
Winners 36 55
%Winners 43% 45%

Nakashima played 1 match while Rinderknech competed in 2 matches. Rinderknech started his run from the qualifications while Nakashima had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Brandon Nakashima dropped 1 set while Arthur Rinderknech hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Nakashima has played 1 set(s) less than Rinderknech (3 vs 4). Therefore, Nakashima played 9 games less than Rinderknech. The American scored 36 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The French player recorded 55 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Serve Nakashima Rinderknech
Aces 7 10
Avg per match 7 5
1st in 49/83 67/99
%1st in 59% 68%
1st pts 36/49 55/67
%1st pts 73% 82%
2nd pts 19/34 18/32
%2nd pts 56% 56%

Nakashima managed to score 7 aces . Rinderknech recorded 10 aces (5 per match). Nakashima won 73% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Rinderknech won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Nakashima Rinderknech
Won 3 7
Converted 3/5 7/14
% Converted 60% 50%
Conceded 6 4
Saved 4 3
% Saved 67% 75%
Times Broken 2 1

Nakashima broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Brandon surrendered his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Rinderknech broke his opponents 7 times with a 50% conversion rate. Arthur conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Nakashima
R1
Ilkel		 Total
Score 3-6 6-4 6-3
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 28 28
pts 83-74 83-74
Total points 157 157
Winners 36 36
%Winners 43% 43%
SERVE
Aces 7 7
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 49/83 49/83
% 1st in 59% 59%
1st pts 36/49 36/49
% 1st pts 73% 73%
2nd pts 19/34 19/34
% 2nd pts 56% 56%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/5 3/5
Converted % 60% 60%
Conceded 6 6
Saved 4/6 4
Saved % 67% 67%
Times Broken 2 2
Rinderknech
Q1
Kolar		 Q3
Ramanathan		 R1
Gunneswaran		 Total
Score 6-4 6-3 6-3 6-3 6-4 3-2 ret.
Tot Set 2 2 3 7
Tot Games 19 18 15 52
pts 65-53 58-40 50-38 173-131
Total points 118 98 88 304
Winners 28 27 21 76
%Winners 43% 47% 42% 44%
SERVE
Aces 7 3 3 13
Double Faults 3 3 0 6
1st in 35/51 32/48 23/32 90/131
% 1st in 69% 67% 72% 69%
1st pts 28/35 27/32 21/23 76/90
% 1st pts 80% 84% 91% 84%
2nd pts 7/16 11/16 7/9 25/41
% 2nd pts 44% 69% 78% 61%
Breaks
Won 4 3 2 9
Converted 4/10 3/4 2/6 9/20
Converted % 40% 75% 33% 45%
Conceded 1 3 0 4
Saved 0/1 3/3 0/0 3
Saved % 0% 100% – 100%
Times Broken 1 0 0 1

Tennis Scores in Istanbul Challenger

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