Frances Tiafoe and Brandon Nakashima will play each other in the 1st round of the Abierto Mexicano Telcel for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 6:00 pm on CANCHA 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Frances Tiafoe who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Frances Tiafoe is the pick to win this match.
Frances Tiafoe -> 1.68
Brandon Nakashima -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Frances Tiafoe vs. Brandon Nakashima
This will be the 2nd time that Frances Tiafoe and Brandon Nakashima play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Tiafoe (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Tiafoe won 3-6 7-6(2) 7-5 in the 3rd round in the Dallas Challenger back in 2020.
Frances Tiafoe
Ranked no. 56, Francis will start his run in Acapulco after he played his last match in Santiago where he lost 7-6(3) 7-6(2) to Bagnis in the 2nd round on the 10th of March.
Francis has a 5-5 win-loss record in 2021, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Francis has an overall 236-168 record. He has a positive 106-79 record on hard.
Previously in Acapulco
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
Brandon Nakashima
Ranked no. 145, Brandon got to the 1st round after defeating Luis Patino 6-2 6-1, Thiago Seyboth Wild 6-3 6-3 and Federico Gaio 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Nakashima had a good straight sets win against Gaio (6-3 6-3). During the match Nakashima scored 71 points vs Gaio’s 50. Nakashima was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Nakashima scored 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Brandon Nakashima was extremely effective on serve to win 83% (25/30) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Brandon broke Gaio 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Nakashima started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 62% of the points he played.
Brandon’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Quimper 2 Challenger.
The American has a 12-3 win-loss record in 2021, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Acapulco
Nakashima has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Sebastian KordaKorda – Marin CilicCilic (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-3 7-68) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Laslo DjereDjere – Steve JohnsonJohnson (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Gerardo Lopez VillasenorLopez Villasenor (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Denis KudlaKudla (6-3 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- John IsnerIsner – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Laslo DjereDjere – Alexander ZverevZverev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Stefan KozlovKozlov (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tommy PaulPaul – Milos RaonicRaonic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Benoit PairePaire (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Feliciano LopezLopez (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-1) – H2H and prediction
