Naoki Nakagawa and Alfredo Perez will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Chicago Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alfredo Perez who should win in 3 sets.
Alfredo Perez -> 1.444
Naoki Nakagawa -> 2.61
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Prediction and head to head Naoki Nakagawa vs. Alfredo Perez
This will be the 2nd time that Naoki Nakagawa and Alfredo Perez clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Perez (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Perez won 6-3 6-1 in the qualifications in USA F9.
Naoki Nakagawa
9 - 15win/loss
653
327
| 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. 350, Nakagawa will start his run in the Chicago Challenger after he played his last match in the Lexington Challenger where he lost 7-6(4) 5-1 ret. to Suresh in the qualifications on the 27th of July.
Naoki has an overall 8-15 win-loss record in 2025, 8-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Japanese’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Timaru.
Talking about his overall career, Naoki has an overall 332-221 record. He has a positive 196-134 record on hard.
Previously in the Chicago Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See his history.
Alfredo Perez
37 - 18win/loss
332
315
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46-28 | 31-18 | 7-3 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 17-9 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-25 | 18-16 | 0-0 | 11-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-22 | 22-11 | 9-9 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-12 | 20-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 372 (career-high), Alfredo will start his run in the Chicago Challenger after he played his last match in Washington where he lost 7-5 1-0 ret. to Vavassori in the qualifications on the 19th of July.
The American has an aggregate 37-17 win-loss record in 2025, 27-13 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.Perez’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Huamantla.
In terms of his career, The American has an overall 205-114 record. He has a positive 147-80 record on hard.
Previously in the Chicago Challenger
Perez has never competed in this tournament before.
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Alfredo PerezPerez (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Alex RybakovRybakov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yibing WuWu – Andre IlaganIlagan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- August HolmgrenHolmgren – Darian KingKing (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dhakshineswar SureshSuresh – Andrew FentyFenty (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Patrick MaloneyMaloney (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Garrett JohnsJohns – Billy HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Joshua SheehySheehy – Trey HilderbrandHilderbrand (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan DostanicDostanic – Bernard TomicTomic (0-1) – H2H and prediction