H2H, PREDICTION Brandon Nakashima vs Joao Sousa | Brest Challenger odds, preview, pick - Tennis Tonic - News, Predictions, H2H, Live Scores, stats

Brandon Nakashima and Joao Sousa will face off in the final of the Brest Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 3:00 pm on CENTRAL. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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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 -> 1.26
Joao Sousa -> 3.85

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Prediction and head to head Brandon Nakashima vs. Joao Sousa

This will be the 2^nd time that Brandon Nakashima and Joao Sousa clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sousa (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they played each other, Sousa won 6-4 6-2 in the qualifications in Belgrade back in April 2021.

Brandon Nakashima

Ranked no. 70 (career-high), Nakashima got to the final after defeating Zsombor Piros 6-3 7-6⁴, Bernabe Zapata Miralles 6-4 6-1, Henri Laaksonen 6-1 7-5 and Alexandre Muller 6-2 7-5.

In the semifinal, Brandon had a good straight sets win against Muller (6-2 7-5). During the match, Nakashima scored 75 points vs Muller’s 53. Brandon was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about the service games, Nakashima bagged 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Brandon Nakashima was extremely effective on serve to win 87% (34/39) of his 1st serve and 60% (6/10) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Muller 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Nakashima started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 59% of the points he played.

Nakashima has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 65% of his matches (100-54). 17-3 on indoor hard courts in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Nakashima has a composed30-10 record in the last 6 years on indoor hard courts.

His best result of the year was conquering the title in the Quimper 2 Challenger where he defeated Bernabe Zapata Miralles in the final 6-3 6-4.

Brandon has an aggregate 42-23 win-loss record in 2021, 17-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Brest Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Brest Challenger

Nakashima's Record

Joao Sousa

Ranked no. 173, the Portuguese got to the final after beating Hugo Grenier 6-4 6-1, Kenny de Schepper 6-4 7-6⁶, Federico Gaio 6-3 6-7⁵ 7-6⁵ and Maxime Janvier 7-5 6-1.

In the semifinal, Sousa had a good straight sets win against Janvier (7-5 6-1). During the match Sousa scored 70 points vs Janvier’s 46. Joao was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Sousa made 3 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Joao Sousa was very effective on serve to win 79% (31/39) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Joao broke Janvier 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Sousa started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

Joao’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Alicante Challenger and the Brest Challenger.

Joao has a compiled 22-27 win-loss record in 2021, 7-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Brest Challenger

Sousa's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

B.Nakashima

J.Sousa

5h:15

Time on court

7h:08

1h:28

Last match

1h:17

Match played

Games Played

Set played

293

Total points

337

73.3

Avg point

84.3

132

Winners

151

Avg Winners

37.8

45%

Ratio winners

45%

-- Serve --

Aces

Avg Aces

Double Faults

0.5

Avg Double Faults

0.8

132/154

1st won total

151/201

86%

1st won %

75%

34/60

2nd won total

59/112

57%

2nd won %

53%

-- Break Points --

12/41

BP won

13/32

3/10.3

Avg BP won

3.3/8

29%

Won

41%

Conceded

0.8

Avg Conceded

5.8

Broken

0.5

Avg Broken

1.3

Saved

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Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Nakashima	Sousa
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	8	9
Tot Games	78	94
Pts	293-206	337-283
Total Points	499	620
Winners	132	151
%Winners	45%	45%

Both Nakashima and Sousa played 4 matches. At the moment, Joao Sousa conceded 1 set while Brandon Nakashima hasn’t lost a set so far. Nakashima has played 1 set(s) less than Sousa (8 vs 9). Therefore, Nakashima played 16 games less than Sousa. The American scored 132 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Joao struck 151 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Nakashima	Sousa
Aces	36	20
Avg per match	9	5
1st in	154/214	201/313
%1st in	72%	64%
1st pts	132/154	151/201
%1st pts	86%	75%
2nd pts	34/60	59/112
%2nd pts	57%	53%

Nakashima bagged 36 aces (9 per match). Sousa struck 20 aces (5 per match). Nakashima won 86% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Sousa won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Nakashima	Sousa
Won	12	13
Converted	12/41	13/32
% Converted	29%	41%
Conceded	3	23
Saved	1	18
% Saved	33%	78%
Times Broken	2	5

The American broke his opponents 12 times with a 29% conversion rate. The American dropped his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. The Portuguese broke his opponents 13 times with a 41% conversion rate. Joao conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded.

	R1 Piros	R2 Zapata Miralles	1/4 Laaksonen	1/2 Muller	Total
Nakashima
Score	6-3 7-6⁴	6-4 6-1	6-1 7-5	6-2 7-5
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	22	17	19	20	78
pts	82-62	64-41	72-50	75-53	293-206
Total points	144	105	122	128	499
Winners	36	28	34	34	132
%Winners	44%	44%	47%	45%	45%
SERVE
Aces	7	8	13	8	36
Double Faults	1	0	0	1	2
1st in	41/64	34/42	40/59	39/49	154/214
% 1st in	64%	81%	68%	80%	72%
1st pts	36/41	28/34	34/40	34/39	132/154
% 1st pts	88%	82%	85%	87%	86%
2nd pts	14/23	4/8	10/19	6/10	34/60
% 2nd pts	61%	50%	53%	60%	57%
Breaks
Won	2	4	3	3	12
Converted	2/7	4/13	3/9	3/12	12/41
Converted %	29%	31%	33%	25%	29%
Conceded	1	1	1	0	3
Saved	0/1	0/1	1/1	0/0	1
Saved %	0%	0%	100%	–	25%
Times Broken	1	1	0	0	2

	R1 Grenier	R2 de Schepper	1/4 Gaio	1/2 Janvier	Total
Sousa
Score	6-4 6-1	6-4 7-6⁶	6-3 6-7⁵ 7-6⁵	7-5 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	3	2	9
Tot Games	17	23	35	19	94
pts	65-40	84-77	118-120	70-46	337-283
Total points	105	161	238	116	620
Winners	28	39	53	31	151
%Winners	43%	46%	45%	44%	45%
SERVE
Aces	9	4	4	3	20
Double Faults	0	2	1	0	3
1st in	33/46	55/84	74/126	39/57	201/313
% 1st in	72%	65%	59%	68%	64%
1st pts	28/33	39/55	53/74	31/39	151/201
% 1st pts	85%	71%	72%	79%	75%
2nd pts	10/13	15/29	24/52	10/18	59/112
% 2nd pts	77%	52%	46%	56%	53%
Breaks
Won	3	2	4	4	13
Converted	3/5	2/6	4/11	4/10	13/32
Converted %	60%	33%	36%	40%	41%
Conceded	1	6	12	4	23
Saved	1/1	5/6	9/12	3/4	18
Saved %	100%	83%	75%	75%	83%
Times Broken	0	1	3	1	5