Borna Coric and Alex Molcan will square off in the 2nd round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 1:30 pm on STADIUM 7. 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 Borna Coric who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Borna Coric is the pick to win this match.
Borna Coric -> 1.41
Alex Molcan -> 2.91
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Prediction and head to head Borna Coric vs. Alex Molcan
This will be the 2nd time that Borna Coric and Alex Molcan play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Molcan (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Molcan won 7-6(7) 2-0 ret. in the quarter in Hamburg back in 2022.
Borna Coric
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-13 | 1-6 | 15-5 | 10-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 23-27 | 8-13 | 3-7 | 11-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-19 | 10-10 | 9-5 | 3-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-17 | 10-5 | 10-9 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 20, Coric will start his run in Indian Wells after he played his last match in Dubai where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Medvedev in the quarter on the 2nd of March.
Borna has a compiled 7-4 win-loss record in 2023, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Coric has an overall 296-200 record. He has a positive 139-85 record on hard.
Previously in Indian Wells
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2018. See his history.
Alex Molcan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-15 | 7-3 | 38-10 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 13-17 | 3-5 | 10-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-27 | 10-8 | 13-13 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-24 | 7-8 | 18-9 | 1-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 65-24 | 8-3 | 42-14 | 13-6 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 63, the Slovakian reached the 2nd round after beating Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Alex had a good straight sets win against Ramos-Vinolas (6-3 6-2). During the match Molcan scored 61 points vs Ramos-Vinolas’s 40. Molcan was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Molcan scored 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alex Molcan was quite effective on serve to win 89% (24/27) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alex broke Ramos-Vinolas 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Molcan has an overall 3-7 win-loss record in 2023, 2-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Indian Wells
Alex has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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