Tommy Paul and Mikhail Kukushkin will square off in the 1st round of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 6:00 pm on Court 17. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tommy Paul who should win in 4 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tommy Paul is the pick to win this match.
Tommy Paul -> 1.27
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 3.92
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Prediction and head to head Tommy Paul vs. Mikhail Kukushkin
There is no head to head record between Tommy Paul and Mikhail Kukushkin since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Tommy Paul
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-13 | 13-6 | 12-4 | 3-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 45-20 | 17-12 | 10-4 | 8-2 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 29-13 | 5-6 | 3-5 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-27 | 21-12 | 2-6 | 9-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-23 | 12-12 | 9-7 | 12-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 41 (career-high), the American will start his run at the Australian Open after he played his last match in Adelaide where he lost 6-4 2-6 6-3 to Cilic in the quarter on the 13th of January.
Tommy has an aggregate 4-2 win-loss record in 2022, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Paul has an overall 269-151 record. He has a positive 129-78 record on hard.
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2020. See his history.
Mikhail Kukushkin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-27 | 11-13 | 3-2 | 9-9 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 52-32 | 24-10 | 10-9 | 12-9 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-24 | 17-11 | 3-5 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-28 | 18-11 | 0-2 | 13-11 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-24 | 8-9 | 0-6 | 2-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 180, Mikhail reached the 1st round after defeating Mirza Basic 6-2 6-3, Robin Haase 7-5 7-62 and Ernesto Escobedo 6-4 5-7 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Kazakhstani defeated Escobedo (6-4 5-7 7-5). During the match Kukushkin scored 110 points vs Escobedo’s 107. Mikhail was very aggressive to blast 55 winners.
About the serving games, Kukushkin managed to score 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Mikhail Kukushkin was pretty efficient on serve to win 79% (55/70) of his 1st serve and 52% (17/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Mikhail broke Escobedo twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
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 53% of the points he played.
Kukushkin has a compiled 5-1 win-loss record in 2022, 5-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, his best result was reaching the 4th round in 2012. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Tomas Barrios VeraBarrios Vera – Filip HoranskyHoransky (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
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