Matija Pecotic and Bruno Kuzuhara will play each other in the 1st round of the Indian Wells 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:00 am on STADIUM 4. 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 Matija Pecotic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Matija Pecotic is the pick to win this match.
Matija Pecotic -> 1.59
Bruno Kuzuhara -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Matija Pecotic vs. Bruno Kuzuhara
There is no head to head record between Matija Pecotic and Bruno Kuzuhara since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Matija Pecotic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-7 | 2-4 | 3-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-11 | 12-5 | 4-4 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 4-3 | 3-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-12 | 0-0 | 8-9 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-4 | 14-2 | 2-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 398, the Croatian will start his run in the Indian Wells 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger where he lost 7-5 0-6 6-2 to Sakellaridis in the qualifications on the 7th of January.
Pecotic has an overall 0-1 win-loss record in 2024, 0-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Matija has an overall 201-87 record. He has a positive 153-48 record on hard.
Previously in the Indian Wells 2 Challenger
Pecotic has never competed in this tournament before.
Bruno Kuzuhara
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-19 | 7-7 | 15-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-30 | 13-6 | 28-23 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-23 | 8-13 | 20-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 9-13 | 6-6 | 2-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 488, the American reached the 1st round after defeating Edan Leshem 7-5 6-2 and Stefan Kozlov 7-66 6-4.
In the qualifications, Kuzuhara had a good straight sets win against Kozlov (7-66 6-4). During the match Kuzuhara scored 80 points vs Kozlov’s 75. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Kuzuhara wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Bruno Kuzuhara lost the serve 4 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Kuzuhara put 79% of his first serves in, winning 59% (35/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 31% (5/16) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Kozlov 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kuzuhara started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 54% of the points he played.
Kuzuhara has a compiled 2-1 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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