Nicolas Mejia and Rei Sakamoto will play each other in the 1st round of the Cary Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 15. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rei Sakamoto who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rei Sakamoto is the pick to win this match.
Rei Sakamoto -> 1.86
Nicolas Mejia -> 1.86
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Prediction and head to head Nicolas Mejia vs. Rei Sakamoto
There is no head to head record between Nicolas Mejia and Rei Sakamoto since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Nicolas Mejia
21 - 18win/loss
244
190
WWLLLWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-19 | 11-12 | 11-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 44-33 | 18-21 | 23-8 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-33 | 6-13 | 18-18 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-35 | 13-12 | 15-13 | 3-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-28 | 16-10 | 5-13 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 243, the Colombian will start his run in the Cary Challenger after he played his last match in the Lima 1 Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Carlos Prado Angelo in the quarter on the 26th of June.
Nicolas has an overall 21-17 win-loss record in 2025, 9-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was winning the title the Savannah Challenger where he overcame Liam Draxl in the final 2-6 6-2 7-6(3).
Talking about his overall career, Mejia has an overall 228-196 record. He has a positive 92-84 record on hard.
Previously in the Cary Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
Rei Sakamoto
17 - 13win/loss
206
206
LWWWWWWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22-14 | 17-9 | 3-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 20-16 | 12-11 | 6-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 7-11 | 1-4 | 5-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-6 | 5-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 291, Rei will start his run in the Cary Challenger after he played his last match in the Sassuolo Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-3 to Van in the 2nd round on the 18th of June.
Rei has a composed 16-13 win-loss record in 2025, 11-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Rei’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger.
In terms of his career, Sakamoto has an overall 48-46 record. He has a positive 29-26 record on hard.
Head 2 Head
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LWWWWWWLWL Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – Yi ZhouZhou (7-65 6-74 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aidan MayoMayo – Andres AndradeAndrade (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andres MartinMartin – Stefan DostanicDostanic (6-4 5-7 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yibing WuWu – Ian MayewMayew (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Liam DraxlDraxl – Philip SekulicSekulic (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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