Stan Wawrinka and Mikhail Kukushkin will play each other in the 2nd round of the Murray River Open for the 5th time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Stan Wawrinka who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Stan Wawrinka is the pick to win this match.
Stan Wawrinka -> 1.37
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 3.2
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Prediction and head to head Stan Wawrinka vs. Mikhail Kukushkin
This will be the 5th time that Stan Wawrinka and Mikhail Kukushkin play each other. The head to head is 2-2 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Wawrinka won 6-74 6-4 6-4 6-4 in the Rubber 4 in 2 back in 2014.
Stan Wawrinka
Ranked no. 18, Wawrinka will start his run in Melbourne after he played his last match in Paris where he lost 6-3 7-6(1) to Zverev in the quarter on the 6th of November.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
Talking about his overall career, Stan has an overall 637-351 record. He has a positive 236-124 record on hard.
Last year in Melbourne
Wawrinka lost in the quarter to Alexander Zverev.
Mikhail Kukushkin
Ranked no. 90, Kukushkin reached the Rubber 4 after defeating Juan Ignacio Londero 4-6 7-5 6-2.
In the 1st round against Londero, The Kazakhstani recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 7-5 6-2). During the match Kukushkin scored 101 points vs Londero’s 88. The Kazakhstani was quite aggressive to blast 46 winners.
Talking about serving, Kukushkin struck 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Mikhail Kukushkin lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Kukushkin put 63% of his first serves in, winning 77% (46/60) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (17/35) on the 2nd serve. Mikhail broke Londero 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Mikhail has a 1-0 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Melbourne
The Kazakhstani lost in the 1st round to Marc Polmans.
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Melbourne
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Borna GojoGojo (6-78 7-62 7-67) – See score progression
- Gilles SimonSimon – Elias YmerYmer (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Michael MmohMmoh (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (4-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Nick KyrgiosKyrgios – Alexandre MullerMuller (3-6 6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Andrew HarrisHarris – Taro DanielDaniel (5-7 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Quentin HalysHalys (3-6 7-63 7-5) – See score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Viktor TroickiTroicki (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Tomas MachacMachac (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Lloyd HarrisHarris (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Alex BoltBolt – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (2-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (7-68 6-3) – See score progression
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (3-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Harry BourchierBourchier – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Richard BerankisBerankis – Sumit NagalNagal (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Pedro SousaSousa – Li TuTu (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Tommy PaulPaul – Cameron NorrieNorrie (4-6 7-62 6-3) – See score progression
- Jeremy ChardyChardy – Marin CilicCilic (2-6 6-3 7-68) – See score progression
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Blake MottMott (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Federico CoriaCoria – Radu AlbotAlbot (7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Richard GasquetGasquet (7-62 7-5) – See score progression
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Mikael YmerYmer (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Gilles SimonSimon – Elias YmerYmer (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Viktor TroickiTroicki (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Nick KyrgiosKyrgios – Alexandre MullerMuller (3-6 6-4 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Quentin HalysHalys (3-6 7-6(3) 7-5) – See score progression
- Andrew HarrisHarris – Taro DanielDaniel (5-7 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jeremy ChardyChardy – Gilles SimonSimon (3-4) – H2H and prediction
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro SousaSousa – Daniel EvansEvans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Marcos GironGiron (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Richard BerankisBerankis – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Federico CoriaCoria – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex BoltBolt – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Harry BourchierBourchier – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrew HarrisHarris – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Borna CoricCoric – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tommy PaulPaul – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Jiri VeselyVesely (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-0) – H2H and prediction