Brandon Nakashima and Jiri Vesely will face off in the 1st round of the Sydney Tennis Classic for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
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 -> 1.50
Jiri Vesely -> 2.62
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Prediction and head to head Brandon Nakashima vs. Jiri Vesely
This will be the 2nd time that Brandon Nakashima and Jiri Vesely fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nakashima (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Nakashima won 7-6(4) 6-1 in the 1st round in Delray beach back in 2020.
Brandon Nakashima
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 60-27 | 24-11 | 13-7 | 14-4 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 21-26 | 9-15 | 3-4 | 8-3 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-26 | 17-13 | 5-5 | 9-4 | 10-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-25 | 17-10 | 4-7 | 20-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 28-14 | 19-6 | 4-4 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 68, the American will start his run in Sydney after he played his last match in the Next Gen ATP Finals where he lost 4-3(3) 2-4 1-4 4-2 4-2 to Korda in the semifinal on the 12th of November.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 103-56 record. He has a positive 58-29 record on hard.
Previously in Sydney
Nakashima has never competed in this tournament before.
Jiri Vesely
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-23 | 6-7 | 7-12 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-15 | 5-3 | 3-7 | 1-1 | 1-3 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 20-19 | 12-10 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-27 | 4-5 | 8-12 | 9-5 | 2-3 | 2-2 |
| 2020 | 21-12 | 8-5 | 9-5 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 79, Jiri got to the 1st round after defeating Lucas Pouille 6-4 6-4 and Denis Kudla 6-4 7-63.
In the qualifications, Vesely had a good straight sets win against Kudla (6-4 7-63). During the match Vesely scored 80 points vs Kudla’s 66. Vesely was very aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Vesely submerged his opponent with 20 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Jiri Vesely was extremely effective on serve to win 86% (36/42) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Vesely broke Kudla twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Jiri 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 54% of the points he played.
Jiri has a composed 2-1 win-loss record in 2022, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Federico DelbonisDelbonis – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (8-4) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Sebastian BaezBaez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Andy MurrayMurray (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime CressyCressy – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
