Brandon Nakashima and Nicolas Alvarez Varona will play each other in the 1st round of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on PISTA RAFA NADAL. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
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 -> 1.36
Nicolas Alvarez Varona -> 3.26
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Prediction and head to head Brandon Nakashima vs. Nicolas Alvarez Varona
There is no head to head record between Brandon Nakashima and Nicolas Alvarez Varona since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Brandon Nakashima
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-30 | 19-14 | 6-8 | 2-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 81, Brandon will start his run in Barcelona after he played his last match in Miami where he lost 3-6 7-6(5) 6-4 to Tiafoe in the 2nd round on the 25th of March.
The American has a compiled 6-8 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Brandon has an overall 109-64 record. He has a negative 8-11 record on clay.
Previously in Barcelona
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicolas Alvarez Varona
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-24 | 13-7 | 17-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-26 | 4-3 | 36-19 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 9-9 | 3-2 | 6-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-34 | 3-7 | 13-19 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-26 | 11-8 | 29-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 285, Alvarez got to the 1st round after beating Philipp Kohlschreiber 3-6 7-5 7-63 and Max Alcala Gurri 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Alvarez had a good straight sets win against Alcala Gurri (6-4 6-3). During the match Alvarez scored 63 points vs Alcala Gurri’s 50. The Spaniard was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Alvarez blasted 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Nicolas Alvarez Varona was pretty effective on serve to win 77% (24/31) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Alvarez broke Alcala Gurri 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Alvarez started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
The Spaniard has an overall 7-9 win-loss record in 2022, 6-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Barcelona
Alvarez has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Hugo DellienDellien – Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Manuel GuinardGuinard (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona – Max Alcala GurriAlcala Gurri (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Elias YmerYmer – Pedro SousaSousa (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Feliciano LopezLopez – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pablo AndujarAndujar – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo DellienDellien – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marcos GironGiron – Federico CoriaCoria (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Benoit PairePaire (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Tommy RobredoRobredo (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Sebastian KordaKorda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime CressyCressy – Elias YmerYmer (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Sebastian BaezBaez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
