On Tuesday, January 19, 2021, around 13.00, the match from round 1 of the ATP Challenger Istanbul is scheduled, between Brandon Nakashima (170 ATP) from the United States of America and Cem Ilkel (219 ATP) from Turkey.
The recommended prognosis is favorable for the best ranked player, and the odds offered are taken from Unibet sports bets.

Brandon Nakashima: Team form, news and statistics

Brandon (19 years old) is one of the best American tennis products of the last 5-6 years, with real potential to reach the top 100 in the world.
Currently, his rise has been stopped by the pandemic, in 2020 showing a good form, both in official and informal matches. He recorded a record of 44 victories in 67 games and climbed to 166th place in the world.
However, he did not have enough Challenger and ATP level competitions to start to climb more.
In 2021 he started with a defeat in the first qualifying round of the Australian Open, but had a very difficult opponent, in the person of the Russian Aslan Karatsev.
Nakashima is 1.85 meters tall and weighs about 77 kilograms, with an explosive style of play. In terms of service, it has a pretty obvious plus compared to the Turkish Ilkel.
Throughout his career, the North American’s record in the hall is 15 victories from 24 matches played. At the end of November 2020, he won his first Challenger category title, on outdoor hard drive in Orlando, Florida, defeating clearly superior opponents in terms of ranking and experience.

Cem Ilkel: Team form, news and statistics

Cem (25 years old) is a tennis player with oscillating results in the last year and a half.
He won a Challenger title at Quimper in 2020, before the pandemic broke out, but he also had other totally unexpected defeats at the end of the year, in front of clearly inferior opponents such as the Romanian junior Gima, a sportsman ranked outside the first thousand in the world.
At 1.83 meters tall and about 82 kilograms, the Turk is not necessarily a formidable player at work, but he has good mobility and is quite balanced in terms of basic shots.Ilkel has a total negative report on indoor hard, with 33 victories from 70 official matches played. He lost the last 3 consecutive matches played in the hall.
At Istanbul Challenger participates for the seventh time in his career, the best result being a quarterfinal in 2018. Last year he clearly lost in round 2 to Belarusian Ivashka, 2-6 2-6, then the tournament was held on hard, but outdoors.

🎾Direct match statistics Brandon Nakashima vs Cem Ilkel

The two tennis players have never faced each other before, in an official men’s singles match.

Tennis Prediction of the Day Brandon Nakashima vs Cem Ilkel

Also from the Unibet sports betting offer, you can approach the odds of 1.90 for handicap -4.5 games in favor of the American Nakashima.

Bet Tips: Nakashima 2-0
Odds: 1.58