Naoki Nakagawa and Alexander Kotzen will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Little Rock Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on STADIUM. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Kotzen who should win in 3 sets.
Alexander Kotzen -> 1.66
Naoki Nakagawa -> 2.12
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Prediction and head to head Naoki Nakagawa vs. Alexander Kotzen
This will be the 2nd time that Naoki Nakagawa and Alexander Kotzen fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kotzen (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Kotzen won 6-3 7-6(3)
in the qualifications in the Knoxville Challenger back in 2024.Naoki Nakagawa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-22 | 15-21 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 349, Naoki will start his run in the Little Rock Challenger after he played his last match in the Gwangju Challenger where he lost 7-6(4) 6-4 to Bouzige in the qualifications on the 20th of April.
The Japanese has a composed 6-9 win-loss record in 2025, 6-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Japanese’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Timaru.
Talking about his overall career, The Japanese has an overall 330-215 record. He has a positive 194-128 record on hard.
Previously in the Little Rock Challenger
Naoki has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexander Kotzen
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-10 | 15-7 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 15-9 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-14 | 12-9 | 1-1 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-7 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-18 | 34-13 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 890, the American will start his run in the Little Rock Challenger after he played his last match in the Knoxville Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-3 7-6(7)
to Kypson in the 1st round on the 5th of November.This will be the first match of the year on hard.
In terms of his career, Alexander has an overall 103-64 record. He has a positive 84-49 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Little Rock Challenger
- Patrick KypsonKypson – Alvin Nicholas TudoricaNicholas Tudorica (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Patrick KypsonKypson – Alvin Nicholas TudoricaNicholas Tudorica (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Daniel MilavskyMilavsky – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (6-4 1-2 ret.) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Karue SellSell – Paul JubbJubb (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas KickerKicker – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hyeon ChungChung – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Elmar EjupovicEjupovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Andres AndradeAndrade (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adria Soriano BarreraSoriano Barrera – Maxime CressyCressy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Govind NandaNanda (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Patrick MaloneyMaloney – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tyler ZinkZink – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction