Brandon Nakashima and Alexander Blockx will play each other in the 2nd round of the Cincinnati Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 6:30 pm on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Brandon Nakashima who should win in 2 sets.
Brandon Nakashima -> 1.285
Alexander Blockx -> 3.64
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Prediction and head to head Brandon Nakashima vs. Alexander Blockx
This will be the 2nd time that Brandon Nakashima and Alexander Blockx clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nakashima (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Nakashima won 6-1 6-2 in the semifinal in the Danderyd Challenger back in 2023.
Brandon Nakashima
25 - 21win/loss
33
29
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-30 | 19-14 | 6-8 | 2-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 61-32 | 24-12 | 13-7 | 15-8 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 21-26 | 9-15 | 3-4 | 8-3 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-26 | 17-13 | 5-5 | 9-4 | 10-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-25 | 17-10 | 4-7 | 20-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 31, Brandon will start his run in Cincinnati after he played his last match in Toronto where he lost 6-7(8) 6-2 7-6(5) to Shelton in the 3rd round on the 1st of August.
Brandon has an aggregate 25-21 win-loss record in 2025, 13-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Acapulco and Houston.
Talking about his overall career, Nakashima has an overall 251-161 record. He has a positive 121-78 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2024. See his history.
Alexander Blockx
31 - 20win/loss
116
101
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42-27 | 15-9 | 4-4 | 19-10 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-24 | 7-11 | 7-3 | 17-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-15 | 4-3 | 11-7 | 24-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 4-7 | 2-2 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 119 (career-high), Blockx reached the 2nd round after beating Alibek Kachmazov 4-2 ret., Luca Nardi 6-4 6-3 and Marcos Giron 6-2 3-6 6-3.
In the 1st round, Alexander defeated Giron (6-2 3-6 6-3). During the match Blockx scored 84 points vs Giron’s 70. Blockx was quite aggressive to blast 37 winners.
About the serving games, Blockx bagged 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Alexander Blockx was quite efficient on serve to win 79% (37/47) of his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Blockx broke Giron 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
His best result of the year was winning the title the Oeiras 3 Challenger where he defeated Liam Draxl in the final 7-5 6-1.
Alexander has an aggregate 31-20 win-loss record in 2025, 14-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Blockx has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Corentin MoutetMoutet (3-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Casper RuudRuud (6-75 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Holger RuneRune – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (7-5 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Joao FonsecaFonseca – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (6-7(4) 5-4 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Tomas MachacMachac (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (5-7 6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (6-2 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tommy PaulPaul – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Sebastian BaezBaez (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (7-63 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-4) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Tommy PaulPaul (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Valentin RoyerRoyer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Emilio NavaNava (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Benjamin BonziBonzi (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Gabriel DialloDiallo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Tristan BoyerBoyer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco ComesanaComesana – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-0) – H2H and prediction