Brandon Nakashima and Nikoloz Basilashvili will play each other in the quarter of the Bordeaux Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 3:00 pm on CENTRAL SCC FRANCE. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.33
Nikoloz Basilashvili -> 3.1

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Prediction and head to head Brandon Nakashima vs. Nikoloz Basilashvili

There is no head to head record between Brandon Nakashima and Nikoloz Basilashvili since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Brandon Nakashima

Brandon Nakashima

15 - 13win/loss

Hard
10-7
I Hard
0-1
Clay
5-5
Rank
33
High
29
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 33-30 19-14 6-8 2-5 6-3 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
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Ranked no. 29 (career-high), Brandon reached the quarter after defeating Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3 7-5.

In the 2nd round, Nakashima had a good straight sets win against Kukushkin (6-3 7-5). During the match, Nakashima scored 68 points vs Kukushkin’s 46. The American was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Regarding the service games, Nakashima bagged 7 aces and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults. Brandon Nakashima was extremely effective on serve to win 90% (28/31) of his 1st serve and 81% (17/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Kukushkin twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Nakashima has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (241-153). 5-5 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Nakashima has a composed 34-32 match record in the last years on clay.

Nakashima’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Acapulco and Houston.

The American has a composed 15-13 win-loss record in 2025, 5-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Bordeaux Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Bordeaux Challenger
Nakashima's Record

Nikoloz Basilashvili

Nikoloz Basilashvili

16 - 13win/loss

Hard
7-6
I Hard
6-2
Clay
3-5
Rank
110
High
16
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 41-29 18-13 9-10 9-3 5-3 0-0
2024 51-32 11-8 27-15 13-9 0-0 0-0
2023 4-19 1-8 0-5 3-6 0-0 0-0
2022 16-31 3-11 5-9 4-7 4-4 0-0
2021 35-27 18-11 8-8 3-5 6-3 0-0
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Ranked no. 157, the Georgean got to the quarter after beating Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-2 6-2 and Quentin Halys 7-6(7) 7-6(4).

In the 2nd round, Nikoloz had a good straight sets win against Halys (7-67 7-64). During the match Basilashvili scored 81 points vs Halys’s 76. Nikoloz was pretty aggressive to blast 42 winners.

Talking about serving, Basilashvili managed to score 14 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Nikoloz Basilashvili was extremely effective on serve to win 89% (42/47) of his 1st serve and 55% (18/33) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Basilashvili hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Nikoloz has an overall 16-13 win-loss record in 2025, 3-5 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Bordeaux Challenger
Basilashvili's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

B.Nakashima
N.Basilashvili
1h:25
1h:25
Time on court​
!
2h:39
2h:39
1h:25
1h:25
Last match​
1h:35
1h:35
1
1
Match played
!
2
2
21
21
Games Played​
42
42
2
2
Set played​​
4
4
68
68
Total points​
139
139
68
68
Avg point​
69.5
69.5
28
28
Winners
64
64
28
28
Avg Winners​
32
32
41%
41%
Ratio winners
46%
46%
-- Serve --
7
7
Aces
20
20
7
7
Avg Aces
10
10
0
0
Double Faults
5
5
0
0
Avg Double Faults
2.5
2.5
28/31
28/31
1st won total​
64/75
64/75
!
90%
90%
1st won %
!
85%
85%
17/21
17/21
2nd won total​
30/52
30/52
!
81%
81%
2nd won %
58%
58%
-- Break Points --
2/5
2/5
BP won
4/10
4/10
2/5
2/5
Avg BP won
2/5
2/5
40%
40%
Won
40%
40%
0
0
Conceded
4
4
0
0
Avg Conceded
2
2
0
0
Broken
0
0
!
0
0
Avg Broken
!
0
0
0
0
Saved
4
4
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Nakashima Basilashvili
Match played 1 2
Tot Set 2 4
Tot Games 21 42
Pts 68-46 139-115
Total Points 114 254
Winners 28 64
%Winners 41% 46%

Nakashima played 1 match while Basilashvili competed in 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Nakashima has played 2 set(s) less than Basilashvili (2 vs 4). Therefore, Nakashima played 21 games less than Basilashvili. Brandon scored 28 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Nikoloz managed to score 64 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve Nakashima Basilashvili
Aces 7 20
Avg per match 7 10
1st in 31/52 75/127
%1st in 60% 59%
1st pts 28/31 64/75
%1st pts 90% 85%
2nd pts 17/21 30/52
%2nd pts 81% 58%

Nakashima bagged 7 aces . Basilashvili made 20 aces (10 per match). Nakashima won 90% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 81% of the points. On the other side, Basilashvili won 85% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Nakashima Basilashvili
Won 2 4
Converted 2/5 4/10
% Converted 40% 40%
Conceded 0 4
Saved 0 4
% Saved 0% 100%
Times Broken 0 0

Nakashima broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. The American was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Georgean broke his opponents 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Nikoloz was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.

Nakashima
R2
Kukushkin		 Total
Score 6-3 7-5
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 21 21
pts 68-46 68-46
Total points 114 114
Winners 28 28
%Winners 41% 41%
SERVE
Aces 7 7
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 31/52 31/52
% 1st in 60% 60%
1st pts 28/31 28/31
% 1st pts 90% 90%
2nd pts 17/21 17/21
% 2nd pts 81% 81%
Breaks
Won 2 2
Converted 2/5 2/5
Converted % 40% 40%
Conceded 0 0
Saved 0/0 0
Saved % – 0%
Times Broken 0 0
Basilashvili
R1
Ramos-Vinolas		 R2
Halys		 Total
Score 6-2 6-2 7-67 7-64
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 16 26 42
pts 58-39 81-76 139-115
Total points 97 157 254
Winners 22 42 64
%Winners 38% 52% 46%
SERVE
Aces 6 14 20
Double Faults 2 3 5
1st in 28/47 47/80 75/127
% 1st in 60% 59% 59%
1st pts 22/28 42/47 64/75
% 1st pts 79% 89% 85%
2nd pts 12/19 18/33 30/52
% 2nd pts 63% 55% 58%
Breaks
Won 4 0 4
Converted 4/9 0/1 4/10
Converted % 44% 0% 40%
Conceded 1 3 4
Saved 1/1 3/3 4
Saved % 100% 100% 200%
Times Broken 0 0 0

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