H2H, PREDICTION Jan-Lennard Struff vs Mikhail Kukushkin | Dubai odds, preview, pick

Jan-Lennard Struff and Mikhail Kukushkin will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 5^th time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:00 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jan-Lennard Struff who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jan-Lennard Struff is the pick to win this match.
Jan-Lennard Struff -> 1.54
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 2.55

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Prediction and head to head Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Mikhail Kukushkin

This will be the 5^th time that Jan-Lennard Struff and Mikhail Kukushkin play each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Struff (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Kukushkin won 6-3 7-6(5) 4-6 7-5 in the 3^rd round in at the Wimbledon back in 2019.

Jan-Lennard Struff

Ranked no. 37, Jan-Lennard will start his run in Dubai after he played his last match in Rotterdam where he lost 6-4 6-0 to Goffin in the 1^st round on the 3^rd of March.

Struff has a 3-5 win-loss record in 2021, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Struff has an overall 437-318 record. He has a negative 64-68 record on hard.

Previously in Dubai

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2020. See his history.

Mikhail Kukushkin

Ranked no. 96, Mikhail reached the 1^st round after beating Maxime Janvier 7-5 3-6 6-1 and Lorenzo Giustino 6-2 6-2.

In the qualifications, Mikhail had a good straight sets win against Giustino (6-2 6-2). During the match Kukushkin scored 62 points vs Giustino’s 41. Mikhail was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Talking about serving, Kukushkin wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Mikhail Kukushkin lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Kukushkin put 62% of his first serves in, winning 69% (20/29) of the points behind his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the 2nd serve. Mikhail broke Giustino 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Kazakhstani started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Mikhail has a 3-5 win-loss record in 2021, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2016. See his history.

Tennis Scores in Dubai

• Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kei NishikoriNishikori – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (3-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jeremy ChardyChardy – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (6-3 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander BublikBublik – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-4 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Malek JaziriJaziri – Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga (3-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Dennis NovakNovak (7-6³ 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Richard GasquetGasquet – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Malek JaziriJaziri – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-3) – H2H and prediction
• Kei NishikoriNishikori – David GoffinGoffin (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Matthew EbdenEbden – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Yuki BhambriBhambri – Aljaz BedeneBedene (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (3-1) – H2H and prediction
• Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Daniel EvansEvans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Lloyd HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – John MillmanMillman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Jordan ThompsonThompson (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Jeremy ChardyChardy (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Jannik SinnerSinner – Alexander BublikBublik (0-0) – H2H and prediction