Juan Pablo Varillas and Mitchell Krueger will play each other in the 1st round of the US Men’s Clay Court Championship for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:30 pm on COURT 7. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Juan Pablo Varillas who should win in 2 sets.
Juan Pablo Varillas -> 1.41
Mitchell Krueger -> 3
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Prediction and head to head Juan Pablo Varillas vs. Mitchell Krueger
There is no head to head record between Juan Pablo Varillas and Mitchell Krueger since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Juan Pablo Varillas
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-18 | 0-1 | 26-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 27-31 | 0-5 | 27-25 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-29 | 4-7 | 23-17 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 53-27 | 2-3 | 51-23 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 51-23 | 0-2 | 51-20 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 111 (career-high), Pablo Patino-Samudio will start his run in Houston after he played his last match in the Pereira Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Bagnis in the semifinal on the 2nd of April.
Juan has a compiled 19-8 win-loss record in 2022, 17-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Juan’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Santa Cruz de la Sierra 2 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Pablo Patino-Samudio has an overall 328-204 record. He has a positive 296-174 record on clay.
Previously in Houston
Juan has never competed in this tournament before.
Mitchell Krueger
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-32 | 12-17 | 9-7 | 7-5 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-31 | 30-17 | 9-7 | 2-6 | 1-1 | 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 |
Ranked no. 161, the American got to the 1st round after beating Matthew Ebden 7-5 6-1 and Michael Mmoh 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Mmoh (6-3 6-3). During the match Krueger scored 77 points vs Mmoh’s 67. Krueger was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Krueger recorded 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Mitchell Krueger lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Krueger put 73% of his first serves in, winning 66% (31/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. Krueger broke Mmoh 4 times after converting 31% of his break points (4/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Krueger started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
The American’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Traralgon Challenger.
Mitchell has a composed 13-9 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Houston
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Michael MmohMmoh (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Ryan HarrisonHarrison (5-7 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Moez EcharguiEchargui (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Steven DiezDiez (4-6 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Tommy PaulPaul (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Denis KudlaKudla (5-2) – H2H and prediction
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Steven DiezDiez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christian GarinGarin – Jack SockSock (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Sam QuerreyQuerrey (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Pablo CuevasCuevas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Marcos GironGiron (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Feliciano LopezLopez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby (0-0) – H2H and prediction