

What Time Will Brandon Nakashima Play Against David Goffin?
Nakashima and Goffin are on the Day 4 Schedule at Abierto Mexicano Telcel Presentado Por Hsbc 2025 on Thursday 27 February 2025. 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?
Brandon Nakashima and David Goffin will face off in their upcoming match. Nakashima currently leads the head-to-head record with a 1-0 advantage. Their previous meeting took place in Basel, Switzerland, where Nakashima won after a tough battle in three sets.
Nakashima, at 23 years old, is ranked as World No. 42 and reached a career-high ranking of No. 35 in September 2024. In 2025, he has a record of 5-5 with two quarterfinal appearances. He made a name for himself in the tennis world when he broke into the Top 50 in July 2022. He achieved his highest ranking after defeating No. 15 Rune and No. 18 Musetti during his US Open run, reaching the 4th round. Nakashima also won the 2022 Next Gen ATP Finals title after reaching the semifinals in 2021. Additionally, he claimed his first ATP Tour title in his hometown of San Diego in 2022, ending the season with a remarkable 16-1 record in tiebreaks. As a 19-year-old, Nakashima made history by becoming the youngest American to reach back-to-back ATP Tour finals at Los Cabos and Atlanta in 2021. Furthermore, he reached the 3rd round at Roland Garros, the 4th round at Wimbledon, and the 3rd round at the US Open in 2022. During Wimbledon, he secured his first Top 20 victories by defeating No. 16 Shapovalov in the 2nd round and No. 19 Dimitrov in the US Open 2nd round. Notably, Nakashima earned his 100th tour-level win after Rune retired due to illness, expanding his overall record to 100-85. In the upcoming match, he aims to reach his 7th ATP Tour semifinal and his first ATP 500 semifinal. Nakashima is currently ranked No. 37 and would rise to No. 33 with a quarterfinal victory.
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As for Goffin, he is 34 years old and currently ranked as World No. 63. He reached a career-high ranking of No. 7 in 2017 after an impressive season with 59 wins. During that season, he reached the championship match of the Nitto ATP Finals, defeating both No. 1 Nadal and No. 2 Federer. Goffin also belongs to the exclusive group of players who have defeated Nadal and Federer at the same tournament, joining the ranks of Davydenko, Del Potro, Djokovic, Murray, and Nalbandian. He holds various accolades for Belgian tennis, being the first Belgian player to break into the Top 10, qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals, defeat a World No. 1, and reach an ATP Masters 1000 final, specifically in Cincinnati in 2019. In 2022, Goffin celebrated his 300th victory by defeating Andujar in the second round of the Marrakech tournament. He has claimed a total of six ATP Tour titles and secured his third win over a World No. 1 player, defeating Alcaraz in the first round of the Astana tournament. Goffin has reached the quarterfinals of four Grand Slam tournaments, most recently at Wimbledon in 2022. Additionally, he led Belgium to the Davis Cup finals in 2015 and 2017. Goffin now seeks to reach his 33rd ATP Tour semifinal, with a record of 15-17 in this stage. This would be his first semifinal above ATP 250 level since the 2019 Tokyo tournament. He also became the second Belgian quarter-finalist in the event’s history, following in the footsteps of Malisse’s 1998 final appearance held in Mexico City on clay.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Nakashima will win.
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