Brandon Nakashima and Mikhail Kukushkin will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Bordeaux Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:00 pm on CENTRAL SCC FRANCE. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.24
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 3.72
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Prediction and head to head Brandon Nakashima vs. Mikhail Kukushkin
This will be the 2nd time that Brandon Nakashima and Mikhail Kukushkin fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nakashima (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Nakashima won 6-1 6-4 in the 1st round in the Bergamo Challenger back in 2023.
Brandon Nakashima
14 - 13win/loss
32
29
LWWLWWLLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-18 | 10-7 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 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. 29 (career-high), Brandon will start his run in the Bordeaux Challenger after he played his last match in Rome where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Musetti in the 3rd round on the 11th of May.
Nakashima has an aggregate 14-13 win-loss record in 2025, 4-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Acapulco and Houston.
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 240-153 record. He has a positive 33-32 record on clay.
Previously in the Bordeaux Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Mikhail Kukushkin
13 - 11win/loss
190
39
WLLLLWWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-15 | 8-8 | 3-2 | 2-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 52-32 | 24-10 | 10-9 | 12-9 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-24 | 17-11 | 3-5 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-28 | 18-11 | 0-2 | 13-11 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-24 | 8-9 | 0-6 | 2-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 165, Mikhail reached the 2nd round after defeating Pavel Kotov 7-6(6) 6-4.
In the 1st round, Kukushkin had a good straight sets win against Kotov (7-66 6-4). During the match Kukushkin scored 81 points vs Kotov’s 78. The Kazakhstani was exceptionally aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about serving, Kukushkin couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Mikhail Kukushkin was very effective on serve to win 71% (37/52) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kukushkin broke Kotov twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).
Mikhail has a compiled 13-11 win-loss record in 2025, 3-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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WLLLLWWWLL Tennis Scores in Bordeaux Challenger
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Pavel KotovKotov (7-66 6-4) – See score progression
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- N.Sriram Balaji/Miguel-Angel Reyes-VarelaBalaji/Miguel-Angel Reyes-Varela – Robert Cash/James TracyCash/James Tracy (6-77 7-67 10-6) – See score progression
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-5 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Benjamin HassanHassan – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (6-3 3-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Quentin HalysHalys – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Hugo GrenierGrenier (7-64 6-1) – See score progression
- Billy HarrisHarris – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (3-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Taro DanielDaniel (7-65 6-2) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Mathias BourgueBourgue (7-65 6-2) – See score progression
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Pavel KotovKotov (7-6(6) 6-4) – See score progression
- Quentin HalysHalys – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-5 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Benjamin HassanHassan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Quentin HalysHalys (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sumit NagalNagal – Hugo GastonGaston (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Billy HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Sebastian BaezBaez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
