Nishesh Basavareddy and Ramkumar Ramanathan will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Guangzhou Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 6:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nishesh Basavareddy who should win in 2 sets.
Nishesh Basavareddy -> 1.196
Ramkumar Ramanathan -> 4.2
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Prediction and head to head Nishesh Basavareddy vs. Ramkumar Ramanathan
There is no head to head record between Nishesh Basavareddy and Ramkumar Ramanathan since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Nishesh Basavareddy
21 - 20win/loss
155
99
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-25 | 21-15 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 49-18 | 34-11 | 0-0 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 12-6 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 2-5 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 108, Nishesh will start his run in the Guangzhou Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-7(5) 6-3 7-5 6-1 to Khachanov in the 1st round on the 25th of August.
Basavareddy has a composed 21-20 win-loss record in 2025, 16-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Nishesh’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Auckland.
Talking about his overall career, Basavareddy has an overall 84-49 record. He has a positive 61-27 record on hard.
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Basavareddy has never competed in this tournament before.
Ramkumar Ramanathan
7 - 13win/loss
629
111
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7-19 | 7-17 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 23-26 | 22-23 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-21 | 25-12 | 0-6 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 15-34 | 4-13 | 4-8 | 2-6 | 4-6 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 45-32 | 23-11 | 8-7 | 5-8 | 7-4 | 2-2 |
Ranked no. 648, the Indian got to the 1st round after beating Kaito Uesugi 7-6(7) 6-3 and Seita Watanabe 7-5 7-6(4).
In the qualifications, Ramanathan had a good straight sets win against Watanabe (7-5 7-64). During the match Ramanathan scored 88 points vs Watanabe’s 70. Ramkumar was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Ramanathan fired 12 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ramkumar Ramanathan was pretty efficient on serve to win 76% (35/46) of his 1st serve and 84% (16/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ramanathan broke Watanabe once after converting 33% of his break points (1/3).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ramkumar started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Ramanathan has a composed 7-13 win-loss record in 2025, 7-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Guangzhou Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See his history
.Tennis Scores in Guangzhou Challenger
- Alexandr BindaBinda – Evan ZhuZhu (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Tianhui ZhangZhang – Wishaya TrongcharoenchaikulTrongcharoenchaikul (7-64 7-5) – See score progression
- Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Tomohiro MasabayashiMasabayashi (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Seita WatanabeWatanabe (7-5 7-64) – See score progression
- Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo – Ye Cong MoCong Mo (4-6 6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Yuta KikuchiKikuchi – Hanyi LiuLiu (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Tomohiro MasabayashiMasabayashi (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Tianhui ZhangZhang – Wishaya TrongcharoenchaikulTrongcharoenchaikul (7-6(4) 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Daniel EvansEvans – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Rigele TeTe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Billy HarrisHarris – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Luca CastelnuovoCastelnuovo – Omar JasikaJasika (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oliver CrawfordCrawford – Linang XiaoXiao (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuta KikuchiKikuchi – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kasidit SamrejSamrej – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gauthier OnclinOnclin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction