Constant Lestienne and Denis Kudla will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 5:00 pm on STADIUM 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Constant Lestienne who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Constant Lestienne is the pick to win this match.
Constant Lestienne -> 1.74
Denis Kudla -> 2.1

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Prediction and head to head Constant Lestienne vs. Denis Kudla

This will be the 3^rd time that Constant Lestienne and Denis Kudla play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Lestienne (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Lestienne won 7-6(4) 6-4 in the 2^nd round in the Surbiton Challenger back in 2023.

Constant Lestienne

Constant Lestienne

7 - 9win/loss

Hard

6-6

I Hard

1-3

Rank
90

High
48

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	9-11	8-8	0-0	1-3	0-0	0-0
2023	32-29	22-12	0-5	7-6	3-6	0-0
2022	51-27	25-6	4-7	18-11	4-3	0-0
2021	24-20	10-3	4-9	10-7	0-1	0-0
2020	8-14	2-2	1-5	5-6	0-0	0-1

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Ranked no. 100, the French player got to the 1^st round after beating Elias Ymer 6-4 7-6⁷ and Vit Kopriva 6-1 6-3.

In the qualifications, Constant had a good straight sets win against Kopriva (6-1 6-3). During the match, Lestienne scored 59 points vs Kopriva’s 40. The French player was very aggressive to blast 14 winners.

Regarding the service games, Lestienne bagged 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Constant Lestienne lost the serve 3 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Lestienne put 49% of his first serves in, winning 64% (14/22) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the 2nd serve. Constant broke Kopriva 7 times after converting 50% of his break points (7/14).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Lestienne started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to win 56% of the points he played.

Lestienne has good record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (332-234). 6-6 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Lestienne has a compiled 87-42 match record in the last years on hard.

Constant has an overall 7-9 win-loss record in 2024, 6-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Indian Wells

Indian Wells

Lestienne's Record

Denis Kudla

Denis Kudla

8 - 4win/loss

Hard

3-1

I Hard

5-3

Rank
162

High
53

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	14-11	5-3	4-5	5-3	0-0	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, Denis got to the 1^st round after beating Hugo Gaston 6-1 6-3 and Emilio Nava 6-2 6-4.

In the qualifications, Kudla had a good straight sets win against Nava (6-2 6-4). During the match Kudla scored 69 points vs Nava’s 44. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Kudla struck 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Denis Kudla was quite effective on serve to win 79% (23/29) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Denis broke Nava 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Kudla started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 62% of the points he played.

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

Kudla has a composed 8-4 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 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 Lestienne and Kudla played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Lestienne and Kudla have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Lestienne played 5 games more than Kudla. Constant scored 50 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Denis recorded 38 winners (29%).

Serve Performance

Lestienne struck 6 aces (3 per match). Kudla managed to score 4 aces (2 per match). Lestienne won 75% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Kudla won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Lestienne broke his opponents 10 times with a 43% conversion rate. Lestienne lost his serve 5 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Kudla broke his opponents 11 times with a 46% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 20% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Constant
Lestienne

3:0

Denis
Kudla

Rank

90

High

48

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Rank

162

High

53

Win Loss

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2024 2023 2022

9 - 11

14 - 11

8-8

Hard

5-3

1-3

I Hard

5-3

0-0

Clay

4-5

Tennis Scores in Indian Wells

• Denis KudlaKudla – Emilio NavaNava (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Sumit NagalNagal (2-6 6-2 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Jurij RodionovRodionov (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Constant LestienneLestienne – Vit KoprivaKopriva (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Benjamin HassanHassan (6-4 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Lukas KleinKlein – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (6-4 6-7⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Liam BroadyBroady (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Hugo GrenierGrenier – Alex MolcanMolcan (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• David GoffinGoffin – Luca NardiNardi (7-6⁴ 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
• Ethan QuinnQuinn – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (4-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Juncheng ShangShang – Facundo BagnisBagnis (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Lucas PouillePouille – Harold MayotMayot (0-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Juncheng ShangShang – Facundo BagnisBagnis (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Constant LestienneLestienne – Vit KoprivaKopriva (6-1 6-3) – See score progression

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• Borna CoricCoric – Sebastian OfnerOfner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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• Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (3-3) – H2H and prediction
• Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – Lukas KleinKlein (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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• Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Flavio CobolliCobolli – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (0-0) – H2H and prediction

Lestienne

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Kudla