Brandon Nakashima and James Kent Trotter will face off in the 2nd round of the Pau Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.157
James Kent Trotter -> 4.85
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Prediction and head to head Brandon Nakashima vs. James Kent Trotter
There is no head to head record between Brandon Nakashima and James Kent Trotter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. 90, the American got to the 2nd round after beating Joris De Loore 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Brandon had a good straight sets win against De Loore (6-4 6-4). During the match, Nakashima scored 71 points vs De Loore’s 57. Nakashima was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Nakashima scored 11 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Brandon Nakashima was very efficient on serve to win 74% (31/42) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break De Loore 3 times.
Nakashima has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 62% of his matches (182-113). 9-3 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Nakashima has an aggregate59-22 record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Tenerife 1 Challenger where he overcame Pedro Martinez Portero in the final 6-3 6-4.
Nakashima has a composed 17-5 win-loss record in 2024, 9-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pau Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
James Kent Trotter
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-21 | 19-12 | 1-3 | 16-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-13 | 15-10 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-11 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 418 (career-high), the Japanese got to the 2nd round after defeating Mark Lajal 6-4 6-4, Robert Strombachs 6-4 7-5 and Ivan Gakhov 6-3 ret..
In the qualifications, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Strombachs (6-4 7-5). During the match Kent scored 86 points vs Strombachs’s 73. Kent was exceptionally aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about serving, Kent struck 15 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. James Kent Trotter lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Kent put 63% of his first serves in, winning 83% (43/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 33% (10/30) on the 2nd serve. James broke Strombachs 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Japanese 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 55% of the points he played.
Kent has an aggregate 6-4 win-loss record in 2024, 5-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nakashima | Kent |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 51 |
| Pts | 71-57 | 184-147 |
| Total Points | 128 | 331 |
| Winners | 31 | 82 |
| %Winners | 44% | 45% |
Nakashima played 1 match while Kent competed in 3 matches. Kent started his run from the qualifications while Nakashima had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Nakashima has played 4 set(s) less than Kent (2 vs 6). Therefore, Nakashima played 31 games less than Kent. The American scored 31 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, James fired 82 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nakashima | Kent |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 27 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 9 |
| 1st in | 42/65 | 96/162 |
| %1st in | 65% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 31/42 | 82/96 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 85% |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 31/66 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 47% |
Nakashima scored 11 aces . Kent made 27 aces (9 per match). Nakashima won 74% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Kent won 85% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nakashima | Kent |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 7 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 7/17 |
| % Converted | 100% | 41% |
| Conceded | 6 | 7 |
| Saved | 5 | 5 |
| % Saved | 83% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Brandon broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Nakashima conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. The Japanese broke his opponents 7 times with a 41% conversion rate. Kent conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Nakashima | |||
| R1 De Loore |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 71-57 | 71-57 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 42/65 | 42/65 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 31/42 | 31/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 13/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kent | ||||
| Q1 Lajal |
Q3 Strombachs |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 22 | 42 | |
| pts | 67-53 | 86-73 | 153-126 | |
| Total points | 120 | 159 | 279 | |
| Winners | 27 | 43 | 70 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 50% | 46% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 8 | 15 | 23 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 30/53 | 52/82 | 82/135 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 63% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 27/30 | 43/52 | 70/82 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 83% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/23 | 10/30 | 25/53 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 33% | 47% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 3/8 | 5/14 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 38% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | – | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWLWLLW Tennis Scores in Pau Challenger
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Ivan GakhovGakhov (6-3 ret.) – See score progression
- Hazem NaowNaow – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (7-62 6-73 6-2) – See score progression
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Harold MayotMayot (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Leandro RiediRiedi – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Tristan LamasineLamasine (7-5 7-63) – See score progression
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Zdenek KolarKolar (7-5 7-64) – See score progression
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Joris De LooreDe Loore (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Dino PrizmicPrizmic – Lloyd HarrisHarris (6-4 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Leandro RiediRiedi – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Harold MayotMayot (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (1-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Clement ChidekhChidekh – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Ivan GakhovGakhov (6-3 ret.) – See score progression
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Tristan LamasineLamasine (7-5 7-6(3)) – See score progression
- Hazem NaowNaow – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (7-6(2) 6-7(3) 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- David GoffinGoffin – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (7-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benoit PairePaire – Jan ChoinskiChoinski (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Clement ChidekhChidekh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kyle EdmundEdmund – Titouan DroguetDroguet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Lucas PouillePouille (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
