Mikhail Kukushkin and Marc-Andrea Huesler will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Open 13 Provence for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:00 pm on COURT CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mikhail Kukushkin who should win in 3 sets.
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 1.61
Marc-Andrea Huesler -> 2.32
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Prediction and head to head Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Marc-Andrea Huesler
This will be the 2nd time that Mikhail Kukushkin and Marc-Andrea Huesler fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kukushkin (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Kukushkin won 6-4 7-6(6) in the 3rd round in the Traralgon Challenger back in January 2022.
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. 165, Mikhail reached the qualifications after defeating Timo Legout 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Legout (6-4 6-1). During the match, Kukushkin scored 68 points vs Legout’s 52. Kukushkin was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kukushkin fired 2 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults. Mikhail Kukushkin lost the serve once and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Kukushkin put 69% of his first serves in, winning 61% (25/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the 2nd serve. The Kazakhstani broke Legout 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Kukushkin has a positive match record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (263-231). 3-2 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kukushkin has a composed 67-55 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Mikhail has an aggregate 8-4 win-loss record in 2022, 3-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Marseille
Marc-Andrea Huesler
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25-27 | 14-11 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-28 | 11-6 | 16-10 | 10-9 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-31 | 7-9 | 2-10 | 5-8 | 4-3 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 45-28 | 9-8 | 18-6 | 11-10 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-33 | 3-6 | 14-15 | 9-7 | 1-3 | 3-2 |
Ranked no. 194, the Swiss reached the qualifications after defeating Ugo Blanchet 6-1 6-77 6-2.
In the qualifications, Marc-Andrea defeated Blanchet (6-1 6-77 6-2). During the match Huesler scored 97 points vs Blanchet’s 67. Huesler was quite aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about serving, Huesler managed to score 12 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Marc-Andrea Huesler was quite effective on serve to win 77% (37/48) of his 1st serve and 77% (24/31) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Swiss broke Blanchet 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
The Swiss has a compiled 2-5 win-loss record in 2022, 1-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Marseille
Marc-Andrea has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kukushkin | Huesler |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 28 |
| Pts | 68-52 | 97-67 |
| Total Points | 120 | 164 |
| Winners | 25 | 37 |
| %Winners | 37% | 38% |
Both Kukushkin and Huesler played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Marc-Andrea Huesler lost 1 set while Mikhail Kukushkin hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Kukushkin has played 1 set(s) less than Huesler (2 vs 3). Therefore, Kukushkin played 11 games less than Huesler. The Kazakhstani scored 25 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Marc-Andrea struck 37 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kukushkin | Huesler |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 12 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 12 |
| 1st in | 41/59 | 48/79 |
| %1st in | 69% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 25/41 | 37/48 |
| %1st pts | 61% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 13/18 | 24/31 |
| %2nd pts | 72% | 77% |
Kukushkin recorded 2 aces . Huesler scored 12 aces . Kukushkin won 61% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 72% of the points. On the other side, Huesler won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 77% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kukushkin | Huesler |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/11 |
| % Converted | 63% | 45% |
| Conceded | 9 | 1 |
| Saved | 8 | 1 |
| % Saved | 89% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Kukushkin broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Kukushkin dropped his serve once and he saved 89% of the break points that he conceded. The Swiss broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Swiss was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Kukushkin | |||
| Q1 Legout | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 68-52 | 68-52 | |
| Total points | 120 | 120 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 41/59 | 41/59 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 25/41 | 25/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 61% | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/18 | 13/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 72% | 72% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 8/9 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 89% | 89% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Huesler | |||
| Q1 Blanchet | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-77 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 97-67 | 97-67 | |
| Total points | 164 | 164 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 12 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 48/79 | 48/79 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 37/48 | 37/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 24/31 | 24/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 77% | 77% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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