Reilly Opelka and Denis Kudla will face off in the 2nd round of the Citi Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 pm on JOHN HARRIS. 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 Reilly Opelka who should win in 3 sets.
Reilly Opelka -> 1.49
Denis Kudla -> 2.7
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Prediction and head to head Reilly Opelka vs. Denis Kudla
This will be the 4th time that Reilly Opelka and Denis Kudla fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Opelka (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Kudla won 6-4 6-3 in the qualifications in Houston back in 2018.
Reilly Opelka
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-28 | 14-11 | 5-6 | 7-6 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 8-10 | 2-8 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-15 | 10-7 | 6-5 | 4-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-23 | 14-11 | 6-4 | 1-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 17 (career-high), Opelka will start his run in Washington after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 6-4 6-7(8) 7-6(7) 7-6(4) to Van Rijthoven in the 2nd round on the 29th of June.
Opelka has an overall 20-14 win-loss record in 2022, 9-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title in in Dallas where he beat Jenson Brooksby in the final 7-6(5) 7-6(3) and in in Houston where he beat John Isner in the final 6-3 7-6(7).
Talking about his overall career, Opelka has an overall 207-160 record. He has a positive 99-80 record on hard.
Previously in Washington
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2021. See his history.
Denis Kudla
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-23 | 9-7 | 6-6 | 7-7 | 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. 82, the American reached the 2nd round after defeating Michael Mmoh 1-6 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round against Mmoh, Kudla recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Kudla scored 89 points vs Mmoh’s 87. Kudla was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Kudla blasted 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Denis Kudla lost the serve 4 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Kudla put 47% of his first serves in, winning 67% (28/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 51% (24/47) on the 2nd serve. Kudla broke Mmoh 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Denis’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Phoenix Challenger and the Surbiton Challenger.
Kudla has a composed 24-22 win-loss record in 2022, 14-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Washington
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2018 and 2021. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Washington
- Daniel EvansEvans – Kyle EdmundEdmund (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrey RublevRublev – Jack DraperDraper (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Borna GojoGojo (7-66 6-75 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (6-73 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis KudlaKudla – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jack SockSock – Maxime CressyCressy (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Mikael YmerYmer (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tommy PaulPaul – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Sebastian BaezBaez (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Benoit PairePaire (1-0) – H2H and prediction