Brandon Nakashima and Mikhail Kukushkin will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Bergamo Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on Bergamo Italcementi. 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.
Brandon Nakashima -> 1.3
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 3.3
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Prediction and head to head Brandon Nakashima vs. Mikhail Kukushkin
There is no head to head record between Brandon Nakashima and Mikhail Kukushkin since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other 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. 151, the American will start his run in the Bergamo Challenger after he played his last match in the Brest Challenger where he lost 6-2 3-6 7-5 to Cazaux in the 2nd round on the 25th of October.
Nakashima has a composed 14-24 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Lyon.
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 158-106 record. He has a positive 43-17 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Bergamo Challenger
Nakashima has never competed in this tournament before.
Mikhail Kukushkin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-27 | 11-13 | 3-2 | 9-9 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 52-32 | 24-10 | 10-9 | 12-9 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-24 | 17-11 | 3-5 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-28 | 18-11 | 0-2 | 13-11 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-24 | 8-9 | 0-6 | 2-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 213, Kukushkin reached the 1st round after beating Federico Arnaboldi 6-3 6-2 and Kalin Ivanovski 3-6 7-62 6-4.
In the qualifications against Ivanovski, The Kazakhstani recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-62 6-4). During the match Kukushkin scored 107 points vs Ivanovski’s 106. Kukushkin was very aggressive to blast 54 winners.
About the serving games, Kukushkin made 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Mikhail Kukushkin lost the serve 3 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Kukushkin put 70% of his first serves in, winning 69% (54/78) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (17/33) on the 2nd serve. Kukushkin broke Ivanovski 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Mikhail started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Kukushkin’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Tyler Challenger and the Bloomfield Hills Challenger.
Kukushkin has an aggregate 23-21 win-loss record in 2023, 3-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Bergamo Challenger
- Alex MolcanMolcan – Matteo GiganteGigante (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Federico GaioGaio (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David GoffinGoffin – Samuel Vincent RuggeriVincent Ruggeri (6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Liam BroadyBroady – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Billy HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Alex MolcanMolcan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo MartineauMartineau – Fabio FogniniFognini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gauthier OnclinOnclin – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Jelle SelsSels (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jack DraperDraper – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (2-0) – H2H and prediction