Emilio Nava and Denis Kudla will square off in the qualifications of the BNP Paribas Open for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:30 pm on STADIUM 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Denis Kudla who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Denis Kudla is the pick to win this match.
Denis Kudla -> 1.87
Emilio Nava -> 1.87

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Prediction and head to head Emilio Nava vs. Denis Kudla

This will be the 4^th time that Emilio Nava and Denis Kudla face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Kudla (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Kudla won 5-7 6-4 6-1 in the semifinal in the Knoxville Challenger back in 2023.

Emilio Nava

Emilio Nava

10 - 7win/loss

Hard

6-5

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4-2

Rank
136

High
124

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	21-18	11-7	4-6	4-2	2-3	0-0
2023	40-31	24-14	12-8	4-9	0-0	0-0
2022	41-27	15-15	14-6	12-6	0-0	0-0
2021	40-16	9-6	27-7	4-3	0-0	0-0
2020	17-12	10-7	7-5	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 134 (career-high), Emilio reached the qualifications after beating Steve Johnson 6-7⁶ 7-6¹⁰ 6-4.

In the qualifications against Johnson, Nava recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7⁶ 7-6¹⁰ 6-4). During the match, Nava scored 125 points vs Johnson’s 119. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 58 winners.

Talking about the service games, Nava made 15 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Emilio Nava lost the serve twice and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Nava put 60% of his first serves in, winning 82% (58/71) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (22/47) on the 2nd serve. Emilio broke Johnson 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Nava has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 61% of his matches (163-106). 6-4 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Nava has an overall78-58 match record in the last 7 years on hard.

Nava has an aggregate 10-6 win-loss record in 2024, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Indian Wells

Indian Wells

Nava's Record

Denis Kudla

Denis Kudla

8 - 4win/loss

Hard

3-1

I Hard

5-3

Rank
167

High
53

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	17-15	5-3	6-6	5-3	1-3	0-0
2023	30-28	13-17	1-3	11-4	5-4	0-0
2022	33-33	21-19	3-5	2-3	7-6	0-0
2021	40-27	20-14	4-5	4-4	12-4	0-0
2020	19-9	13-6	0-1	6-2	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 179, the American got to the qualifications after beating Hugo Gaston 6-1 6-3.

In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Gaston (6-1 6-3). During the match Kudla scored 61 points vs Gaston’s 37. Kudla was extremely aggressive to blast 15 winners.

Talking about serving, Kudla was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Denis Kudla lost the serve 3 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Kudla put 45% of his first serves in, winning 75% (15/20) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (12/24) on the 2nd serve. Denis broke Gaston 7 times after converting 54% of his break points (7/13).

Denis’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Cleveland Challenger.

Denis has a composed 7-4 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Indian Wells

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2012 and 2016. See his history.

Indian Wells

Kudla's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Nava and Kudla played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Emilio Nava surrendered 1 set while Denis Kudla hasn’t conceded a set so far. Nava has played 1 set more than Kudla (3 vs 2). Therefore, Nava played 20 games more than Kudla. Nava scored 58 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Denis managed to score 15 winners (25%).

Serve Performance

Nava recorded 15 aces . Kudla didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Nava won 82% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Kudla won 75% 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

Nava broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Nava conceded his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Kudla broke his opponent 7 times with a 54% conversion rate. Denis conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Emilio
Nava

1:3

Denis
Kudla

Rank

136

High

124

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Rank

167

High

53

Win Loss

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2024 2023 2022

21 - 18

17 - 15

11-7

Hard

5-3

4-2

I Hard

5-3

4-6

Clay

6-6

2-3

Grass

1-3

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