Karue Sell and Naoki Nakagawa will square off in the 1^st round of the Cary Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am 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 Karue Sell who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Karue Sell is the pick to win this match.
Karue Sell -> 1.31
Naoki Nakagawa -> 3.22

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Prediction and head to head Karue Sell vs. Naoki Nakagawa

This will be the 2^nd time that Karue Sell and Naoki Nakagawa square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Sell (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Sell won 6-3 7-5 in the 1^st round in USA F32 (Fountain Valley) back in 2017.

Karue Sell

Ranked no. 289, the Brazilian will start his run in the Cary Challenger after he played his last match in M15 Lakewood where he lost 6-2 2-6 6-0 to Svajda in the semifinal on the 28^th of June.

Sell has an overall 12-12 win-loss record in 2025, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The Brazilian’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Tyler Challenger and M15 Lakewood.

Talking about his overall career, Sell has an overall 153-71 record. He has a positive 104-40 record on hard.

Previously in the Cary Challenger

The Brazilian has never competed in this tournament before.

Naoki Nakagawa

Ranked no. 336, Naoki will start his run in the Cary Challenger after he played his last match in the Little Rock Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-1 to Andrade in the quarter on the 30^th of May.

Naoki has an overall 8-10 win-loss record in 2025, 8-9 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Nakagawa’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in M25 Timaru.

In terms of his career, Nakagawa has an overall 332-216 record. He has a positive 196-129 record on hard.

Tennis Scores in Cary Challenger

• Liam DraxlDraxl – Philip SekulicSekulic (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• 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

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Bernard TomicTomic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Karue SellSell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Masamichi ImamuraImamura – Patrick KypsonKypson (0-0) – H2H and prediction