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.

As per the initial odds, Alexander Kotzen is the pick to win this match.
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

Naoki Nakagawa

7 - 9win/loss

Hard
7-8
I Hard
0-0
Clay
0-1
Rank
653
High
327
LWLLLWWWLW
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.

Little Rock Challenger
Nakagawa's Record

Alexander Kotzen

Alexander Kotzen

0 - 1win/loss

Hard
0-1
I Hard
0-0
Rank
876
High
812
LWLLWLWLWL
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.

Little Rock Challenger
Kotzen's Record

Tennis Scores in Little Rock Challenger

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