H2H, PREDICTION Reilly Opelka vs Brandon Nakashima | Sydney odds, preview, pick

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Prediction and head to head Reilly Opelka vs. Brandon Nakashima

Reilly Opelka and Brandon Nakashima will fight against each other in the quarter of the Sydney Tennis Classic for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:30 pm on COURT 1. 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 3 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Brandon Nakashima is the pick to win this match.
Brandon Nakashima -> 1.74
Reilly Opelka -> 2.19

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Prediction and head to head Reilly Opelka vs. Brandon Nakashima

There is no head to head record between Reilly Opelka and Brandon Nakashima since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Reilly Opelka

Reilly Opelka
Reilly Opelka

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Rank
295
High
17
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 8-10 2-8 0-0 3-1 3-1 0-0
2023 1-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0
2022 21-15 10-7 6-5 4-0 1-3 0-0
2021 21-23 14-11 6-4 1-6 0-2 0-0
2020 12-8 8-4 0-1 4-3 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 25, Reilly got to the quarter after beating Jordan Thompson 6-3 6-2.

In the 2nd round, The American had a good straight sets win against Thompson (6-3 6-2). During the match, Opelka scored 65 points vs Thompson’s 44. Opelka was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Regarding the service games, Opelka blasted 10 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Reilly Opelka was quite efficient on serve to win 96% (22/23) of his 1st serve and 59% (17/29) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Reilly broke Thompson 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Opelka has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 56% of his matches (188-147). 1-1 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Opelka has a compiled91-75 match record in the last 9 years on hard.

Opelka has an aggregate 1-1 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Sydney

Opelka
Sydney
Opelka's Record

Brandon Nakashima

Brandon Nakashima
Brandon Nakashima

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Rank
37
High
35
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 61-32 24-12 13-7 15-8 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 got to the quarter after defeating Jiri Vesely 7-62 7-60 and Fabio Fognini 7-67 7-66.

In the 2nd round, Nakashima had a good straight sets win against Fognini (7-67 7-66). During the match Nakashima scored 93 points vs Fognini’s 82. Brandon was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Talking about serving, Nakashima struck 7 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Brandon Nakashima lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Nakashima put 63% of his first serves in, winning 70% (33/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 71% (20/28) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Fognini twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Nakashima started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 53% of the points he played.

Brandon has a compiled 2-0 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Nakashima
Sydney
Nakashima's Record
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H2H Performance in the tournament

R.Opelka
B.Nakashima
1h:18
1h:18
Time on court​
!
3h:46
3h:46
1h:18
1h:18
Last match​
1h:58
1h:58
1
1
Match played
!
2
2
17
17
Games Played​
52
52
2
2
Set played​​
4
4
65
65
Total points​
169
169
65
65
Avg point​
84.5
84.5
22
22
Winners
67
67
22
22
Avg Winners​
33.5
33.5
34%
34%
Ratio winners
40%
40%
-- Serve --
10
10
Aces
19
19
10
10
Avg Aces
9.5
9.5
6
6
Double Faults
1
1
!
6
6
Avg Double Faults
0.5
0.5
22/23
22/23
1st won total​
67/91
67/91
!
96%
96%
1st won %
!
74%
74%
17/29
17/29
2nd won total​
44/57
44/57
59%
59%
2nd won %
!
77%
77%
-- Break Points --
3/6
3/6
BP won
2/5
2/5
3/6
3/6
Avg BP won
1/2.5
1/2.5
50%
50%
Won
40%
40%
1
1
Conceded
2
2
1
1
Avg Conceded
1
1
0
0
Broken
2
2
!
0
0
Avg Broken
1
1
1
1
Saved
0
0

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Opelka Nakashima
Match played 1 2
Tot Set 2 4
Tot Games 17 52
Pts 65-44 169-148
Total Points 109 317
Winners 22 67
%Winners 34% 40%

Opelka played 1 match while Nakashima competed in 2 matches. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Opelka has played 2 set(s) less than Nakashima (2 vs 4). Therefore, Opelka played 35 games less than Nakashima. Reilly scored 22 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Brandon made 67 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve Opelka Nakashima
Aces 10 19
Avg per match 10 9.5
1st in 23/52 91/148
%1st in 44% 61%
1st pts 22/23 67/91
%1st pts 96% 74%
2nd pts 17/29 44/57
%2nd pts 59% 77%

Opelka fired 10 aces . Nakashima bagged 19 aces (9.5 per match). Opelka won 96% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Nakashima won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 77% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Opelka Nakashima
Won 3 2
Converted 3/6 2/5
% Converted 50% 40%
Conceded 1 2
Saved 1 0
% Saved 100% 0%
Times Broken 0 2

Opelka broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Opelka pretty effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. The American broke his opponents twice with a 40% conversion rate. Brandon conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

Opelka
R2
Thompson
Total
Score 6-3 6-2
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 17
pts 65-44 65-44
Total points 109 109
Winners 22 22
%Winners 34% 34%
SERVE
Aces 10 10
Double Faults 6 6
1st in 23/52 23/52
% 1st in 44% 44%
1st pts 22/23 22/23
% 1st pts 96% 96%
2nd pts 17/29 17/29
% 2nd pts 59% 59%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/6 3/6
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 1/1 1
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0
Nakashima
R1
Vesely
R2
Fognini
Total
Score 7-62 7-60 7-67 7-66
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 26 26 52
pts 76-66 93-82 169-148
Total points 142 175 317
Winners 34 33 67
%Winners 45% 35% 40%
SERVE
Aces 12 7 19
Double Faults 1 0 1
1st in 44/73 47/75 91/148
% 1st in 60% 63% 61%
1st pts 34/44 33/47 67/91
% 1st pts 77% 70% 74%
2nd pts 24/29 20/28 44/57
% 2nd pts 83% 71% 77%
Breaks
Won 0 2 2
Converted 0/0 2/5 2/5
Converted % 0% 40% 40%
Conceded 0 2 2
Saved 0/0 0/2 0
Saved % 0% 0%
Times Broken 0 2 2

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Opelka
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Nakashima
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2024 2023 2022
6 - 10
58 - 32
2-8
Hard
24-12
1-1
I Hard
12-8
0-0
Clay
13-7
3-1
Grass
9-5
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