Brandon Nakashima

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Brandon Nakashima Tennis player
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Birthday: August 3, 2001
Size: 185 cm
Weight: 77 kg
1st professional season: 2020
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer: Pat Cash , Beau Treyz
Prize money: $ 67,670
singles
Career record: 2: 1
Highest ranking: 218 (March 9, 2020)
Current placement: 220
Double
Career record: 0-0
Last update of the infobox:
March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Brandon Nakashima (born August 3, 2001 in San Diego , California ) is an American tennis player .

Career

Nakashima completed a successful junior career from 2017 to 2019. He played in three of four Grand Slam tournaments and his best result was reaching the semi-finals in 2019 at the US Open , where he lost to Jonáš Forejtek in straight sets. In doubles, he was also able to reach the semi-finals in doubles at the unofficial Junior World Cup, the Orange Bowl , in 2017 . In 2018 he was also able to win the ITF Junior Masters against Tseng Chun-hsin . He reached 3rd place in the junior ranking. After graduating from school in January 2019, Nakashima began studying at the University of Virginia , where he also played college tennis . After a semester, however, he decided to pursue a professional career as a tennis player.

The American first made a name for himself in 2018 when he won a third-rate ITF Future Tour tournament in his home country . In 2019 he started regularly in tournaments for the first time and achieved some good results, so that he had climbed to 367th place at the end of the year: At his second Challenger tournament in Cary he reached the second round, in Tiburon the quarter-finals, in Fairfield and Charlottesville even the semi-finals.

In 2020 its trend continued upwards. He won his second future title, otherwise mostly played Challengers, where he was able to reach a semi-finals again in March. He made his first appearance on the ATP Tour in February when he received a wildcard for the tournament in Delray Beach . There he surprised the competition by beating two top 100 players in two sets with Jiří Veselý and Cameron Norrie . In the quarterfinals he was defeated by Yoshihito Nishioka in three sets. Shortly after the corona-related break, he reached his career high of 218th place.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brandon Nakashima: 5 Things To Know | ATP Tour | Tennis | ATP Tour | Tennis. In: atptour.com. February 17, 2020, accessed on June 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Brandon Nakashima Reaches Delray Beach Quarter-finals in ATP Tour Debut | ATP Tour | Tennis. In: atptour.com. February 17, 2020, accessed on June 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Nakashima, Brandon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 2001