Arthur Fils and Brandon Nakashima will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on COURT 4. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Arthur Fils who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Arthur Fils is the pick to win this match.
Arthur Fils -> 1.66
Brandon Nakashima -> 2.23

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Prediction and head to head Arthur Fils vs. Brandon Nakashima

This will be the 3^rd time that Arthur Fils and Brandon Nakashima play each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Nakashima won 6-7(5) 7-6(5) 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Winston salem back in 2023.

Highlights Brandon Nakashima vs Arthur Fils – Winston salem 22-August-2023

Arthur Fils

Ranked no. 24, Arthur reached the 2^nd round after defeating Brandon Holt 6-4 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Fils had a good straight sets win against Holt (6-4 6-1). During the match, Fils scored 63 points vs Holt’s 44. Arthur was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about the service games, Fils managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Arthur Fils lost the serve once. Furthermore, Fils put 68% of his first serves in, winning 79% (27/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. Arthur broke Holt 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Fils has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 60% of his matches (149-99). 9-6 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Fils has a compiled17-13 record in the last 5 years on hard.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Bordeaux Challenger where he beat Pedro Martinez Portero in the final 6-2 6-3 and in Hamburg where he beat Alexander Zverev in the final 6-3 3-6 7-6(1).

Arthur has a compiled 29-19 win-loss record in 2024, 9-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Brandon Nakashima

Ranked no. 49, Brandon got to the 2^nd round after beating Taylor Fritz 6-4 4-6 7-6(4).

In the 1^st round, Brandon defeated Fritz (6-4 4-6 7-6⁴).During the match Nakashima scored less points (1) than Fritz. In fact, the world no. 24 won 96 points vs Fritz’s. That means that Nakashima was more focused during the important points. Nakashima was extremely aggressive to blast 52 winners.

Talking about serving, Nakashima fired 15 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Brandon Nakashima was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 78% (52/67) of his 1st serve and 62% (21/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Fritz once after converting 17% of his break points (1/6).

His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Tenerife 1 Challenger where he defeated Pedro Martinez Portero in the final 6-3 6-4.

Nakashima has an aggregate 50-23 win-loss record in 2024, 17-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2021, 2022 and 2023. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Fils	Nakashima
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	17	33
Pts	63-44	96-97
Total Points	107	193
Winners	27	52
%Winners	43%	54%

Both Fils and Nakashima played 1 match. At the moment, Brandon Nakashima lost 1 set while Arthur Fils hasn’t dropped a set so far. Fils has played 1 set(s) less than Nakashima (2 vs 3). Therefore, Fils played 16 games less than Nakashima. The French player scored 27 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Brandon struck 52 winners (54%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Fils	Nakashima
Aces	2	15
Avg per match	2	15
1st in	34/50	67/101
%1st in	68%	66%
1st pts	27/34	52/67
%1st pts	79%	78%
2nd pts	7/16	21/34
%2nd pts	44%	62%

Fils scored 2 aces . Nakashima made 15 aces . Fils won 79% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Nakashima won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Fils	Nakashima
Won	4	1
Converted	4/9	1/6
% Converted	44%	17%
Conceded	1	5
Saved	0	4
% Saved	0%	80%
Times Broken	1	1

The French player broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Arthur surrendered his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Nakashima broke his opponent once with a 17% conversion rate. Brandon conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.

Fils
	R1 Holt	Total
Score	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	63-44	63-44
Total points	107	107
Winners	27	27
%Winners	43%	43%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	34/50	34/50
% 1st in	68%	68%
1st pts	27/34	27/34
% 1st pts	79%	79%
2nd pts	7/16	7/16
% 2nd pts	44%	44%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/9	4/9
Converted %	44%	44%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

Nakashima
	R1 Fritz	Total
Score	6-4 4-6 7-64
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	33	33
pts	96-97	96-97
Total points	193	193
Winners	52	52
%Winners	54%	54%
SERVE
Aces	15	15
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	67/101	67/101
% 1st in	66%	66%
1st pts	52/67	52/67
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	21/34	21/34
% 2nd pts	62%	62%
Breaks
Won	1	1
Converted	1/6	1/6
Converted %	17%	17%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	4/5	4
Saved %	80%	80%
Times Broken	1	1

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• Jannik SinnerSinner – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

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