Denis Kudla and Mats Moraing will face off in the 2nd round of the Phoenix Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:00 pm on COURT 1. In the following lines 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 -> 1.65
Mats Moraing -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Denis Kudla vs. Mats Moraing
This will be the 2nd time that Denis Kudla and Mats Moraing square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Moraing (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Moraing won 7-5 6-1 in the qualifications in Halle back in 2019.
Denis Kudla
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-15 | 5-3 | 6-6 | 5-3 | 1-3 | 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, Denis reached the 2nd round after beating Mitchell Krueger 6-1 7-5.
In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Krueger (6-1 7-5). During the match, Kudla scored 73 points vs Krueger’s 49. Denis was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kudla blasted 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Denis Kudla was very effective on serve to win 81% (22/27) of his 1st serve and 68% (13/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kudla broke Krueger 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Kudla has a winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (329-248). 5-8 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Kudla has a composed 159-127 match record in the last years on hard.
Denis has a compiled 5-9 win-loss record in 2022, 5-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Phoenix Challenger
Denis has never competed in this tournament before.
Mats Moraing
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 14-16 | 5-8 | 6-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-26 | 4-6 | 6-11 | 6-4 | 1-4 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 31-22 | 2-2 | 21-14 | 8-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-10 | 0-1 | 6-4 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 25-25 | 10-7 | 10-11 | 2-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 128 (career-high), Moraing got to the 2nd round after defeating Jason Jung 6-2 3-6 7-5 and Jan-Lennard Struff 3-6 7-62 6-4.
In the 1st round against Struff, Moraing recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-62 6-4). During the match Moraing scored 95 points vs Struff’s 90. Moraing was pretty aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about serving, Moraing managed to score 10 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Overall, Mats Moraing was very efficient on serve to win 88% (43/49) of his 1st serve and 56% (25/45) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Mats was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Struff once.
Mats’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Turin Challenger.
Moraing has a composed 9-5 win-loss record in 2022, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kudla | Moraing |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 61 |
| Pts | 73-49 | 187-176 |
| Total Points | 122 | 363 |
| Winners | 22 | 70 |
| %Winners | 30% | 37% |
Kudla played 1 match while Moraing competed in 2 matches. Moraing started his run from the qualifications while Kudla had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Mats Moraing dropped 2 sets while Denis Kudla hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Kudla has played 4 set(s) less than Moraing (2 vs 6). Therefore, Kudla played 42 games less than Moraing. Denis scored 22 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, Mats bagged 70 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kudla | Moraing |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 19 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 9.5 |
| 1st in | 27/46 | 89/182 |
| %1st in | 59% | 49% |
| 1st pts | 22/27 | 70/89 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 51/93 |
| %2nd pts | 68% | 55% |
Kudla recorded 8 aces . Moraing struck 19 aces (9.5 per match). Kudla won 81% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Moraing won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kudla | Moraing |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 7 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 7/9 |
| % Converted | 56% | 78% |
| Conceded | 1 | 16 |
| Saved | 0 | 11 |
| % Saved | 0% | 69% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 5 |
Kudla broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Kudla lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The German broke his opponents 7 times with a 78% conversion rate. Moraing conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 69% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kudla | |||
| R1 Krueger |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 73-49 | 73-49 | |
| Total points | 122 | 122 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 27/46 | 27/46 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 22/27 | 22/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 13/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Moraing | |||||
| Q1 Jung |
Q3 Krueger |
R1 Struff |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 3-6 7-5 | 6-3 6-2 | 3-6 7-62 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 17 | 32 | 78 | |
| pts | 92-86 | – | 95-90 | 187-176 | |
| Total points | 178 | 0 | 185 | 363 | |
| Winners | 27 | 43 | 70 | ||
| %Winners | 29% | 0% | 45% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 9 | 0 | 10 | 19 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 7 | 9 | ||
| 1st in | 40/88 | / | 49/94 | 89/182 | |
| % 1st in | 45% | 0% | 52% | 49% | |
| 1st pts | 27/40 | / | 43/49 | 70/89 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 0% | 88% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 26/48 | / | 25/45 | 51/93 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 0% | 56% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 6 | 1 | 7 | ||
| Converted | 6/8 | / | 1/1 | 7/9 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 0% | 100% | 78% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 6 | 16 | ||
| Saved | 6/10 | 0/ | 5/6 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 60% | – | 83% | 143% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Phoenix Challenger
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-1 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-4 6-75 6-3) – See score progression
- David GoffinGoffin – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (1-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Gilles SimonSimon (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Jeff WolfWolf – Max PurcellPurcell (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Oscar OtteOtte (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Mats MoraingMoraing – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (3-6 7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Hugo GastonGaston (6-73 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Benoit PairePaire – Emilio NavaNava (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (6-75 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Sebastian BaezBaez (2-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Liam BroadyBroady – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Ariel Behar/Gonzalo EscobarBehar/Gonzalo Escobar – Tomislav Brkic/Nikola CacicBrkic/Nikola Cacic (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (1-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Benoit PairePaire – Emilio NavaNava (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Oscar OtteOtte (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- David GoffinGoffin – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (1-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Mats MoraingMoraing – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (3-6 7-6(2) 6-4) – See score progression
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Hugo GastonGaston (6-7(3) 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-4 6-7(5) 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Richard GasquetGasquet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benoit PairePaire – Radu AlbotAlbot (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Denis KudlaKudla – Mats MoraingMoraing (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – David GoffinGoffin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Liam BroadyBroady (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
