Grigor Dimitrov and Brandon Nakashima will square off in the 1^st round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on GRAND STAND ARENA. 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 Grigor Dimitrov who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Grigor Dimitrov is the pick to win this match.
Grigor Dimitrov -> 1.28
Brandon Nakashima -> 3.84

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Prediction and head to head Grigor Dimitrov vs. Brandon Nakashima

There is no head to head record between Grigor Dimitrov and Brandon Nakashima since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Grigor Dimitrov

Ranked no. 20, Grigor will start his run in Rome after he played his last match in Madrid where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Tsitsipas in the 3^rd round on the 5^th of May.

Grigor has an aggregate 14-9 win-loss record in 2022, 7-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

The Bulgarian’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Melbourne and Carlo.

Talking about his overall career, The Bulgarian has an overall 507-308 record. He has a positive 139-87 record on clay.

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2014. See his history.

Brandon Nakashima

Ranked no. 76, Brandon reached the 1^st round after defeating Ugo Humbert 6-3 6-3 and Kamil Majchrzak 6-4 7-6⁵.

In the qualifications, Brandon had a good straight sets win against Majchrzak (6-4 7-6⁵). During the match Nakashima scored 78 points vs Majchrzak’s 69. The American was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Nakashima struck 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Brandon Nakashima was pretty effective on serve to win 78% (32/41) of his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Brandon broke Majchrzak once after converting 33% of his break points (1/3).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 57% of the points he played.

Brandon has a compiled 9-11 win-loss record in 2022, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Rome

Nakashima has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Rome

• Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Sebastian KordaKorda (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (3-6 7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Daniel EvansEvans (7-6² 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marcos GironGiron – Alexander BublikBublik (3-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Denis Shapovalov
  Shapovalov – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (7-6⁵ 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Flavio CobolliCobolli (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (6-2 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Laslo DjereDjere – Borna CoricCoric (6-2 6-7³ 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Cristian GarinGarin – Francesco PassaroPassaro (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marin CilicCilic – Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (7-6⁷ 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Lloyd HarrisHarris (3-6 6-3 7-6⁷) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Fabio FogniniFognini – Dominic ThiemThiem (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Tommy PaulPaul (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dusan LajovicLajovic – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (3-5) – H2H and prediction
• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Laslo DjereDjere – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Casper RuudRuud (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – David GoffinGoffin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Andrey RublevRublev – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Sebastian BaezBaez (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – John IsnerIsner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Christian GarinGarin (0-0) – H2H and prediction