Karolina Muchova and Kristina Kucova will play each other in the qualifications of the Miami Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:00 pm on Grandstand. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Muchova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karolina Muchova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Muchova -> 1.049
Kristina Kucova -> 8.3
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Prediction and head to head Karolina Muchova vs. Kristina Kucova
This will be the 2nd time that Karolina Muchova and Kristina Kucova play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kucova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Kucova won 7-6(4) 4-6 4-0 ret. in the 2nd round in the Prague.
Karolina Muchova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 38-13 | 28-9 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-12 | 3-2 | 3-3 | 5-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-9 | 10-4 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-8 | 6-6 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 38-14 | 25-9 | 6-2 | 3-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 55, the Czech reached the qualifications after beating Heather Watson 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Watson (6-1 6-1). During the match, Muchova scored 53 points vs Watson’s 24. Muchova was quite aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Muchova fired 4 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Karolina Muchova was very effective on serve to win 79% (19/24) of her 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Muchova was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Watson 6 times.
Muchova has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 66% of her matches (179-92). 12-4 on hard in 2023. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Muchova has an overall81-36 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
Muchova has an overall 12-4 win-loss record in 2023, 12-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Miami
Kristina Kucova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6-11 | 2-6 | 1-4 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 8-15 | 4-7 | 3-5 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-29 | 19-16 | 15-11 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-11 | 7-8 | 7-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 25-20 | 6-7 | 14-10 | 5-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 383, Kristina got to the qualifications after beating Laura Pigossi 7-5 6-1.
In the qualifications, Kristina had a good straight sets win against Pigossi (7-5 6-1). During the match Kucova scored 72 points vs Pigossi’s 57. The Slovakian was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Kucova managed to score 2 aces and she committed only 9 double faults. Kristina Kucova lost the serve twice and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Kucova put 39% of her first serves in, winning 79% (23/29) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (23/46) on the 2nd serve. The Slovakian broke Pigossi 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
Kristina’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the W60 Trnava.
Kucova has a compiled 5-4 win-loss record in 2023, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Miami
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Muchova | Kucova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 19 |
| Pts | 53-24 | 72-57 |
| Total Points | 77 | 129 |
| Winners | 19 | 23 |
| %Winners | 36% | 32% |
Both Muchova and Kucova played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Muchova and Kucova have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Muchova played 5 games less than Kucova. Karolina scored 19 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Kucova fired 23 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Muchova | Kucova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 2 |
| 1st in | 24/37 | 29/75 |
| %1st in | 65% | 39% |
| 1st pts | 19/24 | 23/29 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 23/46 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 50% |
Muchova fired 4 aces . Kucova made 2 aces . Muchova won 79% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Kucova won 79% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Muchova | Kucova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 5 |
| Converted | 6/6 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 100% | 50% |
| Conceded | 2 | 7 |
| Saved | 1 | 5 |
| % Saved | 50% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Karolina broke her opponent 6 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Czech surrendered her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Kucova broke her opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Kristina conceded her serve twice and she saved 71% of the break points that she conceded.
| Muchova | |||
| Q1 Watson |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 53-24 | 53-24 | |
| Total points | 77 | 77 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 24/37 | 24/37 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 19/24 | 19/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 8/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/6 | 6/6 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kucova | |||
| Q1 Pigossi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 72-57 | 72-57 | |
| Total points | 129 | 129 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 9 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 29/75 | 29/75 | |
| % 1st in | 39% | 39% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/46 | 23/46 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| 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 | |
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