Brandon Nakashima and Marcos Giron will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Hellenic Championship for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 8:30 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Brandon Nakashima who should win in 3 sets.
Brandon Nakashima -> 1.62
Marcos Giron -> 2.29
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Prediction and head to head Brandon Nakashima vs. Marcos Giron
This will be the 4th time that Brandon Nakashima and Marcos Giron face off. The head to head is 3-0 for Nakashima (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they fought against each other, Nakashima won 6-3 2-6 7-6(3) in the quarter in Chengdu back in September 2025.
Highlights Brandon Nakashima vs Marcos Giron – Chengdu 21-September-2025
Brandon Nakashima
33 - 29win/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. 33, the American will start his run in Athens after he played his last match in Paris where he lost 6-2 7-5 to Muller in the 1st round on the 27th of October.
The American has an aggregate 33-29 win-loss record in 2025, 2-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Brandon’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Acapulco, Houston and Chengdu.
Talking about his overall career, Brandon has an overall 259-169 record. He has a positive 67-31 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Athens
Nakashima has never competed in this tournament before.
Marcos Giron
22 - 27win/loss
66
37
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-28 | 12-14 | 4-7 | 4-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-27 | 6-11 | 3-8 | 11-4 | 9-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-30 | 17-15 | 7-6 | 5-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-31 | 11-13 | 3-9 | 6-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 12-10 | 5-5 | 11-6 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 72, Marcos reached the 2nd round after beating Pedro Martinez Portero 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, Marcos had a good straight sets win against Martinez Portero (6-4 6-1). During the match Giron scored 66 points vs Martinez Portero’s 46. The American was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Giron blasted 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Marcos Giron was quite efficient on serve to win 82% (23/28) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Martinez Portero 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
The American has an aggregate 22-27 win-loss record in 2025, 3-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Athens
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (4-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (5-7 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (7-63 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Vit KoprivaKopriva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Marcos GironGiron (3-0) – H2H and prediction