Mikhail Kukushkin and Arthur Rinderknech will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Open 13 Provence for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 1. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Arthur Rinderknech who should win in 3 sets.
Arthur Rinderknech -> 1.666
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 2.27
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Prediction and head to head Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Arthur Rinderknech
There is no head to head record between Mikhail Kukushkin and Arthur Rinderknech since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Mikhail Kukushkin
Ranked no. 96, the Kazakhstani will start his run in Marseille after he played his last match in the Sultan 2 Challenger where he lost 6-3 7-5 to Ferreira Silva in the 1st round on the 1st of March.
Mikhail has a 1-4 win-loss record in 2021, 0-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Kukushkin has an overall 508-375 record. He has a positive 116-81 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Marseille
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2019. See his history.
Arthur Rinderknech
Ranked no. 138, Rinderknech reached the 1st round after beating Maxime Janvier 6-3 6-3 and Maxime Cressy 7-64 6-0.
In the qualifications, Arthur had a good straight sets win against Cressy (7-64 6-0). During the match Rinderknech scored 70 points vs Cressy’s 45. Rinderknech was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Rinderknech managed to score 12 aces and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Arthur Rinderknech was very efficient on serve to win 85% (29/34) of his 1st serve and 81% (13/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Arthur broke Cressy 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Arthur started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 59% of the points he played.
Arthur’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Istanbul Challenger.
Rinderknech has a 16-6 win-loss record in 2021, 14-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Marseille
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Marseille
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (7-63 6-75 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hugo GastonGaston – Dennis NovakNovak (3-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-2 4-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Feliciano LopezLopez (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matthew EbdenEbden – Benjamin BonziBonzi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas PouillePouille – Alex MolcanMolcan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Constant LestienneLestienne (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Petros TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GastonGaston – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – H2H and prediction