Paula Badosa and Justina Mikulskyte will square off in the 1st round of the SP Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 5:30 pm on Court 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Paula Badosa who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Paula Badosa is the pick to win this match.
Paula Badosa -> 1.042
Justina Mikulskyte -> 10.5
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Prediction and head to head Paula Badosa vs. Justina Mikulskyte
There is no head to head record between Paula Badosa and Justina Mikulskyte since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Paula Badosa
23 - 18win/loss
59
2
LWLWWWLWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 27-20 | 12-11 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 18-13 | 13-8 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-19 | 26-11 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-9 | 6-4 | 11-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-22 | 20-13 | 8-5 | 1-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 70, Paula will start her run in Sao Paulo after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 6-4 7-6(5) to Gauff in the 2nd round on the 3rd of September.
Paula has a composed 23-18 win-loss record in 2026, 8-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the year was conquering the title the Bastad where she defeated Simona Waltert in the final 7-5 7-5.
Talking about her overall career, Paula has an overall 408-231 record. She has a positive 171-97 record on hard.
Previously in Sao Paulo
The Spaniard has never competed in this tournament before.
Justina Mikulskyte
29 - 27win/loss
246
196
LLWLWLWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 29-28 | 13-6 | 11-14 | 3-6 | 1-1 | 1-1 |
| 2025 | 43-33 | 19-14 | 11-10 | 13-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-34 | 14-6 | 19-16 | 9-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-37 | 14-11 | 25-14 | 12-11 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 33-31 | 14-12 | 14-11 | 5-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 237, Justina reached the 1st round after beating Antonia Vergara Rivera 6-2 6-3 and Chloe Paquet 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Justina had a good straight sets win against Vergara Rivera (6-2 6-3). During the match Mikulskyte scored 65 points vs Vergara Rivera’s 48. Mikulskyte was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Mikulskyte was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Justina Mikulskyte lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Mikulskyte put 63% of her first serves in, winning 68% (23/34) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. Justina broke Vergara Rivera 6 times after converting 46% of her break points (6/13).
WTA Sao Paulo - Justina Mikulskyte's projected path
Her best result of the current season was winning the title the W35 Tumkur where she beat Zuzanna Pawlikowska in the final 1-0 ret..
Mikulskyte has an overall 29-27 win-loss record in 2026, 13-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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