Denis Kudla and Mitchell Krueger will play each other in the 1st round of the Phoenix Challenger for the 8th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. 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 Denis Kudla who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Denis Kudla is the pick to win this match.
Denis Kudla -> 1.79
Mitchell Krueger -> 1.98
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Prediction and head to head Denis Kudla vs. Mitchell Krueger
This will be the 8th time that Denis Kudla and Mitchell Krueger face off. The head to head is 6-1 for Kudla (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Kudla won 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in the Charlottesville Challenger back in 2021.
Denis Kudla
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-13 | 5-3 | 6-6 | 5-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-28 | 13-17 | 1-3 | 11-4 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-33 | 21-19 | 3-5 | 2-3 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-27 | 20-14 | 4-5 | 4-4 | 12-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-9 | 13-6 | 0-1 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 102, the American will start his run in the Phoenix Challenger after he played his last match in Indian Wells where he lost 0-6 6-3 6-3 to Kohlschreiber in the qualifications on the 9th of March.
Denis has a compiled 4-9 win-loss record in 2022, 4-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Kudla has an overall 432-328 record. He has a positive 206-162 record on hard.
Previously in the Phoenix Challenger
Kudla has never competed in this tournament before.
Mitchell Krueger
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-15 | 16-6 | 9-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-29 | 15-19 | 4-4 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-28 | 18-15 | 6-5 | 1-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-24 | 19-12 | 5-5 | 3-5 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-13 | 14-8 | 1-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 164, the American got to the 1st round after defeating Zachary Svajda 6-74 6-3 6-1 and Mats Moraing 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Moraing (6-3 6-2). During the match Krueger scored 55 points vs Moraing’s 31. The American was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Krueger recorded 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Mitchell Krueger was very effective on serve to win 92% (24/26) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Mitchell broke Moraing 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Mitchell’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Traralgon Challenger.
The American has an aggregate 9-7 win-loss record in 2022, 9-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gilles SimonSimon – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Richard GasquetGasquet (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Benoit PairePaire – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mats MoraingMoraing – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Denis KudlaKudla (1-6) – H2H and prediction
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oscar OtteOtte – Radu AlbotAlbot (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Liam BroadyBroady (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – David GoffinGoffin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Max PurcellPurcell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GastonGaston – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian BaezBaez – Facundo BagnisBagnis (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (1-0) – H2H and prediction
