Pablo Llamas Ruiz and Bruno Kuzuhara will square off in the 1st round of the Bloomfield Hills Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pablo Llamas Ruiz who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pablo Llamas Ruiz is the pick to win this match.
Pablo Llamas Ruiz -> 1.138
Bruno Kuzuhara -> 4.8
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Prediction and head to head Pablo Llamas Ruiz vs. Bruno Kuzuhara
This will be the 2nd time that Pablo Llamas Ruiz and Bruno Kuzuhara fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Llamas Ruiz (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Llamas Ruiz won 6-2 6-4 in the semifinal in M15 Antalya back in 2022.
Pablo Llamas Ruiz
32 - 14win/loss
140
116
LWLWWLWLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 36-21 | 9-10 | 23-8 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 29-21 | 5-5 | 23-13 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 16-16 | 2-5 | 10-8 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-21 | 12-6 | 33-12 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-23 | 2-4 | 35-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 117, Llamas Ruiz will start his run in the Bloomfield Hills Challenger after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 6-1 6-2 6-4 to Svajda in the 1st round on the 30th of June.
Pablo has an aggregate 31-14 win-loss record in 2026, 5-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Alicante Challenger where he defeated Pablo Carreno-Busta in the final 6-4 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, Pablo has an overall 209-129 record. He has a flat 30-30 record on hard.
Previously in the Bloomfield Hills Challenger
Llamas Ruiz has never competed in this tournament before.
Bruno Kuzuhara
19 - 19win/loss
663
394
LWLWWWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 23-21 | 9-8 | 12-12 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 41-33 | 9-8 | 31-23 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-32 | 12-16 | 15-11 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-30 | 13-6 | 28-23 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-23 | 8-13 | 20-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 616, the American reached the 1st round after defeating Lorenzo Claverie 4-6 6-4 7-6(6) and Dhakshineswar Suresh 6-7(5) 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications against Suresh, The American recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-75 6-3 6-4). During the match Kuzuhara scored 110 points vs Suresh’s 90. Bruno was quite aggressive to blast 57 winners.
Talking about serving, Kuzuhara bagged 3 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Bruno Kuzuhara was exceptionally effective on serve to win 76% (57/75) of his 1st serve and 75% (18/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Suresh twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kuzuhara started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
ATP Bloomfield Hills Challenger - Bruno Kuzuhara's projected path
Kuzuhara has a compiled 19-18 win-loss record in 2026, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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