Prediction Of Medjedovic Vs Nakashima H2H, Who Will Win At ATP Belgrade Open 2024?

What Time Will Hamad Medjedovic Play Against Brandon Nakashima?

Medjedovic and Nakashima are on the Day 1 Schedule at Belgrade Open 2024 on Sunday 3 November 2024. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.

Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?

Hamad Medjedovic, a 21-year-old Serbian player, is currently ranked 158th in the world. His career-high ranking is 102, achieved in October 2023. In 2024, he has a win-loss record of 5-7, making it to the third round in Rome. Throughout his career, he has accumulated a total record of 17 wins and 17 losses, including reaching two semifinals.

Medjedovic made a breakthrough when he won the Next Gen ATP Finals and entered the Top 200 in March 2023. He climbed to his career-high ranking after reaching the semifinals in Astana, which was his second ATP Tour semifinal. At the 2023 Gstaad, he surprised everyone by qualifying for the tournament and defeating the 2015 champion, Dominic Thiem, en route to his first ATP Tour semifinal. He made his ATP Tour debut in 2021 at Belgrade-2 and earned his first tour-level win at the 2023 Davis Cup, defeating Durasovic. Additionally, he qualified for the main draw of Grand Slam events such as Roland Garros in 2023 and 2024, Wimbledon in 2023, and the US Open in 2024.

In the Challenger circuit, Medjedovic has a record of 44 wins and 30 losses, with 4 wins in finals. He became the third Serbian teenager to win three Challenger titles, joining the ranks of Djokovic and Tipsarevic. His victories came at the 2022 Luedenscheid, 2023 Szekesfehervar, and 2023 Mauthausen tournaments. In the junior rankings, he achieved a career-high ranking of 9 after winning titles at the 2019 Berlin Grade 1 and the 2019 New Delhi Grade 2.

It is worth noting that Medjedovic qualified for the main draw of the US Open in August as his only tour-level hard-court event in 2024, where he lost to Marozsan. He has a positive record of 7 wins and 6 losses against top 50 players, with 3 wins on hard courts. Some notable victories include defeating Lehecka to reach the 2023 Astana semifinals and defeating Fils to win the 2023 Next Gen ATP Finals.

Brandon Nakashima, a 23-year-old American player, is currently ranked 35th in the world, which is his career-high ranking. In 2024, he has a win-loss record of 27-22, reaching the semifinals in two tournaments. His career record stands at 95 wins and 79 losses, and he has won one title so far.

Nakashima was once ranked as the third-best junior player in the world, and he broke into the Top 50 in July 2022. He achieved his career-high ranking of 35 in September 2024 after defeating Rune and Musetti, ranked 15th and 18th respectively, on his way to the fourth round of the US Open. In 2022, he won the Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan after reaching the semifinals in the previous year. He also won his first ATP Tour title by defeating Giron in his hometown of San Diego in 2022 and ended the season with an impressive 16-1 record in tiebreaks.

At the age of 19, Nakashima reached back-to-back ATP Tour finals in Los Cabos and Atlanta in 2021, becoming the youngest American player to achieve this since Roddick in 2001-2002. In 2022, he had notable runs in Grand Slam events, reaching the third round in Roland Garros, the fourth round in Wimbledon, and the third round in the US Open. He secured his first top 20 wins of his career by defeating Shapovalov in the second round of Wimbledon and Dimitrov in the second round of the US Open.

Nakashima has shown strength in indoor hard court events, with a career record of 17 wins and 9 losses. He notably won the 2022 Next Gen ATP Finals with a perfect 5-0 run. He will aim to avoid his fourth consecutive loss against a player ranked outside the top 100 after defeats to Cilic, Watanuki, and Wawrinka.

In their upcoming match, it will be the first meeting between Hamad Medjedovic and Brandon Nakashima.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Medjedovic will win.
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