Alexandre Muller and Dimitar Kuzmanov will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Bengalaru 2 Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexandre Muller who should win in 3 sets.
Alexandre Muller -> 1.47
Dimitar Kuzmanov -> 2.68
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Prediction and head to head Alexandre Muller vs. Dimitar Kuzmanov
This will be the 4th time that Alexandre Muller and Dimitar Kuzmanov square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Kuzmanov (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Muller won 7-6(4) 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Bengalaru 1 Challenger back in February 2022.
Alexandre Muller
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 23-20 | 7-8 | 14-10 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 46-33 | 20-13 | 18-12 | 7-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 38-31 | 6-6 | 27-20 | 4-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 27-31 | 6-7 | 16-15 | 5-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
2020 | 21-13 | 3-2 | 15-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 196, Muller got to the 2nd round after defeating Elliot Benchetrit 7-5 6-4.
In the 1st round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Benchetrit (7-5 6-4). During the match, Muller scored 74 points vs Benchetrit’s 61. The French player was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Muller managed to score 3 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Alexandre Muller lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Muller put 72% of his first serves in, winning 58% (29/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the 2nd serve. Muller broke Benchetrit 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Muller has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 62% of his matches (289-180). 6-4 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Muller has a compiled89-47 record in the last 8 years on hard.
Alexandre’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Bengalaru 1 Challenger.
The French player has a compiled 10-5 win-loss record in 2022, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bengalaru 2 Challenger
Dimitar Kuzmanov
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 10-16 | 2-5 | 5-7 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 31-25 | 9-7 | 22-15 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 32-26 | 10-7 | 16-13 | 4-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 32-25 | 8-6 | 22-15 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2020 | 20-13 | 4-1 | 13-8 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 209, the Bulgarian reached the 2nd round after beating Hugo Grenier 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Dimitar had a good straight sets win against Grenier (6-4 6-3). During the match Kuzmanov scored 63 points vs Grenier’s 48. Kuzmanov was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Kuzmanov scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Dimitar Kuzmanov was very effective on serve to win 73% (27/37) of his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Bulgarian broke Grenier 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Kuzmanov has an overall 3-4 win-loss record in 2022, 3-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Muller | Kuzmanov |
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Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 22 | 19 |
Pts | 74-61 | 63-48 |
Total Points | 135 | 111 |
Winners | 29 | 27 |
%Winners | 39% | 43% |
Both Muller and Kuzmanov played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Muller and Kuzmanov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Muller played 3 games more than Kuzmanov. Muller scored 29 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Kuzmanov blasted 27 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Muller | Kuzmanov |
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Aces | 3 | 1 |
Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
1st in | 50/69 | 37/55 |
%1st in | 72% | 67% |
1st pts | 29/50 | 27/37 |
%1st pts | 58% | 73% |
2nd pts | 12/19 | 13/18 |
%2nd pts | 63% | 72% |
Muller managed to score 3 aces . Kuzmanov fired 1 ace . Muller won 58% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Kuzmanov won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 72% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Muller | Kuzmanov |
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Won | 5 | 3 |
Converted | 5/7 | 3/7 |
% Converted | 71% | 43% |
Conceded | 8 | 5 |
Saved | 5 | 4 |
% Saved | 63% | 80% |
Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
Alexandre broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Alexandre conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded. Kuzmanov broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Bulgarian conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
Muller | |||
R1 Benchetrit | Total | ||
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Score | 7-5 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
pts | 74-61 | 74-61 | |
Total points | 135 | 135 | |
Winners | 29 | 29 | |
%Winners | 39% | 39% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 3 | 3 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
1st in | 50/69 | 50/69 | |
% 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
1st pts | 29/50 | 29/50 | |
% 1st pts | 58% | 58% | |
2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
% 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 5 | 5 | |
Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
Saved | 5/8 | 5 | |
Saved % | 63% | 63% | |
Times Broken | 3 | 3 |
Kuzmanov | |||
R1 Grenier | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
pts | 63-48 | 63-48 | |
Total points | 111 | 111 | |
Winners | 27 | 27 | |
%Winners | 43% | 43% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 1 | 1 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
1st in | 37/55 | 37/55 | |
% 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
1st pts | 27/37 | 27/37 | |
% 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
2nd pts | 13/18 | 13/18 | |
% 2nd pts | 72% | 72% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Tennis Scores in Bengalaru 2 Challenger
- Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov – Vit KoprivaKopriva (6-2 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Markos KalovelonisKalovelonis – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Mathias BourgueBourgue – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Johan NiklesNikles – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (6-71 6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Sidharth RawatRawat – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Borna GojoGojo – Dominik PalanPalan (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Antoine BellierBellier – Federico GaioGaio (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Nitin Kumar SinhaKumar Sinha (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Andrew HarrisHarris (7-67 7-69) – See score progression
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-3 7-67) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (5-7 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Arjun KadheKadhe – Adil KalyanpurKalyanpur (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Steven DiezDiez – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mathias BourgueBourgue – Steven DiezDiez (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Arjun KadheKadhe – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Markos KalovelonisKalovelonis – Johan NiklesNikles (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Max PurcellPurcell (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine BellierBellier – Sidharth RawatRawat (0-0) – H2H and prediction