Mikhail Kukushkin and Nicolas Kicker will play each other in the qualifications of the U.S. Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on Court 8. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mikhail Kukushkin who should win in 4 sets.

As per the initial odds, Mikhail Kukushkin is the pick to win this match.
Mikhail Kukushkin -> 1.41
Nicolas Kicker -> 2.82

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Prediction and head to head Mikhail Kukushkin vs. Nicolas Kicker

There is no head to head record between Mikhail Kukushkin and Nicolas Kicker since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Mikhail Kukushkin

Mikhail Kukushkin

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Rank
294
High
39
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 24-27 11-13 3-2 9-9 1-3 0-0
2024 52-32 24-10 10-9 12-9 6-4 0-0
2023 23-24 17-11 3-5 3-8 0-0 0-0
2022 36-28 18-11 0-2 13-11 5-4 0-0
2021 12-24 8-9 0-6 2-6 2-3 0-0

Ranked no. 215, Mikhail will start his run at the U.S. Open after he played his last match in the Chicago Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-7(1) 6-1 to Gojo in the 2nd round on the 11th of August.

The Kazakhstani has a compiled 25-19 win-loss record in 2022, 15-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Mikhail has an overall 544-414 record. He has a positive 204-143 record on hard.

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2020. See his history.

U.S. Open
Kukushkin's Record

Nicolas Kicker

Nicolas Kicker

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Rank
259
High
78
LWWLWLWWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 52-29 2-2 50-27 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 12-13 2-4 10-8 0-0 0-1 0-0
2023 11-10 1-1 10-9 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 27-28 6-6 20-21 0-0 1-1 0-0
2021 64-21 17-2 47-19 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 235, the Argentine will start his run at the New York after he played his last match in the San Benedetto Challenger where he lost 6-3 3-0 ret. to Arnaldi in the 1st round on the 25th of July.

The Argentine has an overall 13-20 win-loss record in 2022, 2-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Kicker’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Todi Challenger.

In terms of his career, Nicolas has an overall 297-195 record. He has a positive 26-22 record on hard.

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2017. See his history.

U.S. Open
Kicker's Record

Tennis Scores – U.S. Open

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