Mitchell Krueger and Govind Nanda will fight against each other in the qualifications of the San Diego Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 11:30 am on GRANDSTAND. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Govind Nanda who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Govind Nanda is the pick to win this match.
Govind Nanda -> 1.83
Mitchell Krueger -> 1.93
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Prediction and head to head Mitchell Krueger vs. Govind Nanda
This will be the 4th time that Mitchell Krueger and Govind Nanda square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Krueger (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played, Nanda won 0-6 7-6(10) 7-5 in the qualifications in Indian wells back in 2021.
Mitchell Krueger
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-16 | 18-7 | 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. 178, the American got to the qualifications after defeating Hudson Rivera 3-6 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications against Rivera, Mitchell recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-1 6-2). During the match, Krueger scored 81 points vs Rivera’s 56. Krueger was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Regarding the service games, Krueger scored 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Mitchell Krueger lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Krueger put 63% of his first serves in, winning 88% (35/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (11/23) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Rivera 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Krueger has good match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (333-283). 13-10 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Krueger has a composed 209-169 record in the last years on hard.
The American’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Traralgon Challenger.
Mitchell has an aggregate 23-21 win-loss record in 2022, 13-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in San Diego
Govind Nanda
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 5-6 | 1-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-26 | 22-19 | 5-3 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-14 | 21-10 | 2-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-4 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 367 (career-high), Nanda reached the qualifications after defeating Juan Pablo Ficovich 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Govind had a good straight sets win against Pablo Ficovich (6-3 6-1). During the match Nanda scored 66 points vs Pablo Ficovich’s 42. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Nanda scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Govind Nanda lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Nanda put 84% of his first serves in, winning 74% (31/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (4/8) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Pablo Ficovich 5 times after converting 38% of his break points (5/13).
The American’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Tulsa.
Nanda has a composed 24-20 win-loss record in 2022, 19-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in San Diego
Govind has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Krueger | Nanda |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 24 | 16 |
| Pts | 81-56 | 66-42 |
| Total Points | 137 | 108 |
| Winners | 35 | 31 |
| %Winners | 43% | 47% |
Both Krueger and Nanda played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Mitchell Krueger lost 1 set while Govind Nanda hasn’t lost a set so far. Krueger has played 1 set more than Nanda (3 vs 2). Therefore, Krueger played 8 games more than Nanda. Krueger scored 35 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Govind scored 31 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Krueger | Nanda |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 1 |
| 1st in | 40/63 | 42/50 |
| %1st in | 63% | 84% |
| 1st pts | 35/40 | 31/42 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 11/23 | 4/8 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 50% |
Krueger struck 2 aces . Nanda fired 1 ace . Krueger won 88% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Nanda won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Krueger | Nanda |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/13 |
| % Converted | 50% | 38% |
| Conceded | 7 | 6 |
| Saved | 5 | 5 |
| % Saved | 71% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
The American broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Mitchell surrendered his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. The American broke his opponent 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. Nanda conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Krueger | |||
| Q1 Rivera |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 24 | 24 | |
| pts | 81-56 | 81-56 | |
| Total points | 137 | 137 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 40/63 | 40/63 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 35/40 | 35/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/23 | 11/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Nanda | |||
| Q1 Pablo Ficovich |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 66-42 | 66-42 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 42/50 | 42/50 | |
| % 1st in | 84% | 84% | |
| 1st pts | 31/42 | 31/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/13 | 5/13 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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