Brandon Nakashima overcomes Richard Gasquet 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Stuttgart on Thursday. Nakashima will fight against Jan-Lennard Struff in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 11 minutes.
Nakashima added to his prize money € 9,315 after conquering this match. He has already won € 22,215 after this win. If he wins the next match, the American will add € 16,120 to his earnings to get in total € 38,335 in total.
Highlights Brandon Nakashima vs. Richard Gasquet Boss Open – Stuttgart
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Brandon scored 62 points vs. the French player’s 49.
Nakashima
The American served pretty well to win 78% of the points (32/41) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (7/14) on his second serve. Nakashima fired 10 aces and he committed 1 double fault. Nakashima won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points after he converted only 43% (3/7) of the procured opportunities.
Gasquet
On the other side, Richard was struggling when converting his break points (only 33% – 1/3). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Nakashima and Gasquet is 3-1 for Brandon.
Draw and next match H2H: Brandon Nakashima vs. Jan-Lennard Struff – stats
Nakashima will come up against Struff in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Brandon Nakashima and Jan-Lennard Struff since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
The American won the set after he broke the French player in the 4th (3-1) and in the 8th (5-3) game. Richard tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 7th (4-3) game. Anyhow, Brandon kept the situation under control to win the set 6-3.
Brandon converted 40% of his break points (2/5). He had 5 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40), the 8th (4-3 15-40 and 30-40) and the 10th game (6-2 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Gasquet was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 6th game (2-4 15-40).
They contested 53 points. Nakashima won 9 points more than Gasquet (31-22). Nakashima dropped 8 points on serve (17-8). on the other side of the net, Gasquet conceded 14 points on serve (14-14).
Nakashima had a great start in this set after breaking Richard Gasquet in the 2nd game (2-0). Brandon reinforced his lead after breaking the French player before winning the set (6-4).
Brandon was unable to convert any of the 2 conquered break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 9th game (5-3 15-40 and 30-40). Moreover, on the other side, Gasquet was unable to convert any of his 2 break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 8th (3-4 30-40) and the 10th game (4-5 30-40).
They contested 58 points. Nakashima was the one to win the set after conquering 4 points more than the French player (31-27). Nakashima surrendered 8 points on serve (22-8). In addition, on the other side, Richard conceded 9 points on serve (19-9).
Tennis Scores in Stuttgart
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- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (6-4 6-4)
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (6-4 7-60)
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-3 6-4)
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (6-79 7-65 6-3)
- Jack DraperDraper – Marcos GironGiron (6-4 3-6 6-3)
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (7-5 7-65)
- Alexander BublikBublik – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (6-1 7-64)
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