Who Will Win: Nakashima Vs Musetti? Prediction For ATP Us Open 2024

What Time Will Brandon Nakashima Play Against Lorenzo Musetti?

Nakashima and Musetti are on the Day 5 Schedule at Us Open 2024 on Friday 30 August 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?

Brandon Nakashima (USA) will be facing Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) in their upcoming match. Musetti currently leads the head-to-head record between the two players, with a score of 1-0 in Musetti’s favor. The last time they played was at the 2024 Queen’s Club tournament in London, where Musetti won with a score of 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.

Brandon Nakashima, born on August 3, 2001, is 23 years old. He holds a PIF ATP ranking of No. 50, with his highest ranking being No. 18 on June 26, 2023. Nakashima was born in San Diego, CA, USA. In the 2024 season, he has a win-loss record of 19-15 on hard courts, with a career win-loss record of 87-72 on hard courts. He has won 1 career title on hard courts. His best Grand Slam performance was reaching the semi-finals at Wimbledon in 2024, with a current record of 21-14 at Grand Slam tournaments. In fifth-set matches at the US Open, he has a record of 1-5, with 0 comebacks from 2 sets down. His career tiebreak win-loss record is 56-43 in 2024. He has earned a career prize money of $4,056,675 in 2024.

Nakashima’s coach is Davide Sanguinetti.

In the 2024 US Open, Nakashima has performed well so far. He defeated No. 15 Rune in the first round with a score of 6-2, 6-1, 6-4, and also beat Cazaux with a score of 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 in the second round. He has yet to be broken in the tournament, saving all 8 break points he has faced. In the 2022 US Open, he reached the third round after defeating No. 113 Kotov and No. 19 Dimitrov. In the 2021 US Open, he upset American No. 1 and World No. 22 Isner in straight sets in the first round, but lost to Molcan in the second round in a fifth-set match. In his junior career, Nakashima won the boys’ singles title at the 2018 Australian Open and reached the quarter-finals in the boys’ doubles event in 2019.

Nakashima has a record of 5-6 against top 20 players this season. This includes a hard court win over No. 12 Paul in ATP Masters 1000 Montreal in the second round.

Lorenzo Musetti, born on March 3, 2002, is 22 years

old. He currently holds a PIF ATP ranking of No. 43, with his highest ranking being No. 15 on October 26, 2022. Musetti was born in Carrara, Italy. In the 2024 season, he has a win-loss record of 34-21 on hard courts, with a career win-loss record of 126-104 on hard courts. He has won 2 career titles on hard courts. His best Grand Slam performances include reaching the semi-finals at Wimbledon in 2024 and the fourth round at the Australian Open in 2022. In fifth-set matches at the US Open, he has a record of 5-6, with 0 comebacks from 2 sets down. His career tiebreak win-loss record is 53-36 in 2024. He has earned a career prize money of $7,032,795 in 2024.

Musetti’s coach is Simone Tartarini.

In Musetti’s recent matches, he defeated Kecmanovic in the second round of the tournament with a score of 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 7-5. In the 2022 US Open, he reached the third round, losing to Ivashka.

Musetti aims to reach the second week of a hard court Grand Slam event for the first time in his career. He has had good results since the start of the grass season in 2024, including a victory over Nakashima in the Queen’s Club quarter-finals. His recent performances include reaching the semi-finals at Wimbledon and winning the bronze medal at the Paris Olympics.

In his career, Musetti broke into the Top 20 in January 2023, with a career-high ranking of No. 15 in June. He earned a personal-best 34 wins during the 2022 season. He won the 2022 Hamburg final, defeating Alcaraz at the age of 20, becoming the youngest ATP Tour final winner since 2005. Musetti has had notable victories throughout his career, including defeating No. 1 Djokovic at the 2023 Monte-Carlo tournament and capturing the bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Musetti did not drop a set en route to winning his second ATP title at the 2022 Naples tournament, where he defeated his countryman Berrettini in the final. In 2022, Musetti became the first player born in 2002 to win an ATP Tour match at the Rome tournament.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Nakashima will win.
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