Taro Daniel and Emilio Nava will clash against each other in the 1st round of the San Diego Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on BARNES STADIUM. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taro Daniel who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Taro Daniel is the pick to win this match.
Taro Daniel -> 1.73
Emilio Nava -> 2.11
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Prediction and head to head Taro Daniel vs. Emilio Nava
This will be the 3rd time that Taro Daniel and Emilio Nava clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Daniel and Nava (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Nava won 6-4 3-6 7-5 in the qualifications in Winston salem back in August 2022.
Taro Daniel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12-31 | 10-19 | 1-8 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-33 | 16-16 | 5-11 | 9-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-30 | 34-16 | 7-10 | 2-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-29 | 27-17 | 12-7 | 2-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-25 | 5-7 | 21-15 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 95, Taro will start his run in San Diego after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-4 6-7(1) 6-2 6-2 to Gasquet in the 1st round on the 30th of August.
Taro has an overall 38-24 win-loss record in 2022, 23-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Daniel has an overall 490-345 record. He has a positive 147-117 record on hard.
Previously in San Diego
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Emilio Nava
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56-28 | 8-7 | 45-19 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-34 | 16-15 | 8-9 | 8-5 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-31 | 24-14 | 12-8 | 4-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-27 | 15-15 | 14-6 | 12-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-16 | 9-6 | 27-7 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 173 (career-high), Nava got to the 1st round after defeating Gage Brymer 6-1 6-1 and Aleksandar Kovacevic 7-5 7-64.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Kovacevic (7-5 7-64). During the match Nava scored 84 points vs Kovacevic’s 73. Nava was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Nava bagged 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Emilio Nava was very efficient on serve to win 79% (34/43) of his 1st serve and 59% (17/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Emilio broke Kovacevic twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American 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 58% of the points he played.
Nava’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Shymkent 1 Challenger.
Emilio has a composed 36-21 win-loss record in 2022, 13-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Jeff WolfWolf – Stefan KozlovKozlov (6-2 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Brandon HoltHolt (5-7 7-65 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (7-5 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Facundo MenaMena (7-66 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Denis KudlaKudla – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marcos GironGiron – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Emilio NavaNava (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
