Naoki Nakagawa and Jack Pinnington Jones will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Columbus Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 5:00 pm on COURT 3. 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 Jack Pinnington Jones who should win in 2 sets.
Jack Pinnington Jones -> 1.285
Naoki Nakagawa -> 3.42
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Prediction and head to head Naoki Nakagawa vs. Jack Pinnington Jones
This will be the 2nd time that Naoki Nakagawa and Jack Pinnington Jones fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Pinnington (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Pinnington won 6-2 1-6 6-1 in the qualifications in the Lincoln Challenger back in August 2024.
Naoki Nakagawa
15 - 10win/loss
373
334
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-16 | 13-12 | 1-1 | 11-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-23 | 42-19 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-27 | 16-16 | 10-9 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-15 | 32-13 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-4 | 14-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 429, the Japanese will start his run in the Columbus Challenger after he played his last match in the Las Vegas Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Gengel in the 1st round on the 10th of September.
Naoki has an aggregate 14-10 win-loss record in 2024, 3-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
The Japanese’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Sapporo.
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 313-200 record. He has a positive 11-9 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
Jack Pinnington Jones
24 - 8win/loss
377
376
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-12 | 21-8 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-8 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 19-12 | 9-7 | 8-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-13 | 6-5 | 14-7 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 460, the Brit reached the 1st round after beating Govind Nanda 6-1 2-6 6-2 and Trey Hilderbrand 6-4 1-6 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Brit defeated Hilderbrand (6-4 1-6 7-5). During the match Pinnington and Hilderbrand scored the same amount of points (100). However, the world no. 429 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Pinnington was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Pinnington scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was not very solid on his 2nd serve to score 14 double faults. Jack Pinnington Jones lost the serve 5 times and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Pinnington put 47% of his first serves in, winning 63% (31/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (27/56) on the 2nd serve. Jack broke Hilderbrand 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Pinnington started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
The Brit’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Nottingham and M25 Aldershot.
Pinnington has an overall 24-7 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Columbus Challenger
- Patrick ZahrajZahraj – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (7-64 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Jules MarieMarie (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ethan QuinnQuinn – Patrick KypsonKypson (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Aidan MayoMayo (4-6 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander BernardBernard – Brandon HoltHolt (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Denis KudlaKudla – Micah BraswellBraswell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Dane SweenySweeny (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Kyle EdmundEdmund (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Patrick ZahrajZahraj (0-0) – H2H and prediction