Brandon Nakashima and James Kent Trotter will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Delray Beach Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 8:00 pm on COURT 1. 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.
As per the initial odds, Brandon Nakashima is the pick to win this match.
Brandon Nakashima -> 1.333
James Kent Trotter -> 3.3
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Prediction and head to head Brandon Nakashima vs. James Kent Trotter
This will be the 2nd time that Brandon Nakashima and James Kent Trotter square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Nakashima (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Nakashima won 6-4 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Pau Challenger back in 2024.
Brandon Nakashima
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-14 | 10-7 | 6-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 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. 43, the American will start his run in Delray Beach after he played his last match in Dallas where he lost 6-4 7-6(6) to Nishioka in the 1st round on the 5th of February.
Brandon has a composed 1-4 win-loss record in 2025, 1-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Nakashima has an overall 227-144 record. He has a positive 109-72 record on hard.
Previously in Delray Beach
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2020. See his history.
James Kent Trotter
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12-11 | 8-7 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-23 | 19-12 | 1-3 | 21-7 | 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 |
Ranked no. 182 (career-high), the Japanese got to the 1st round after defeating Ryan Seggerman 6-1 6-3 and Taro Daniel 6-7(4) 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications against Daniel, James recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-74 7-5 6-3). During the match Kent scored 116 points vs Daniel’s 99. James was pretty aggressive to blast 41 winners.
About the serving games, Kent made 10 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, James Kent Trotter was very effective on serve to win 77% (41/53) of his 1st serve and 68% (23/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. James broke Daniel 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kent started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
James has an overall 8-4 win-loss record in 2025, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Taro DanielDaniel (6-74 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Dmitry PopkoPopko (7-65 6-0) – See score progression
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Ethan QuinnQuinn (7-61 6-3) – See score progression
- Tristan BoyerBoyer – Murphy CassoneCassone (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Aleksandar VukicVukic (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Gabriel DialloDiallo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Borna GojoGojo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Michael MmohMmoh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
