Bu Yunchaokete and Nicola Kuhn will face off in the 1st round of the Murcia Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on PISTA 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicola Kuhn who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicola Kuhn is the pick to win this match.
Nicola Kuhn -> 1.62
Bu Yunchaokete -> 2.21
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Prediction and head to head Bu Yunchaokete vs. Nicola Kuhn
There is no head to head record between Bu Yunchaokete and Nicola Kuhn since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Bu Yunchaokete
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 51-27 | 40-14 | 3-2 | 7-8 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-23 | 27-15 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 87-28 | 84-24 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 174, the Chinese will start his run in the Murcia Challenger after he played his last match in the Hamburg Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-2 6-1 to Blockx in the 2nd round on the 13th of March.
Yunchaokete has a composed 4-4 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
The Chinese’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Tenerife 3 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Bu has an overall 129-59 record. He has a negative 0-4 record on clay.
Previously in the Murcia Challenger
Bu has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicola Kuhn
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 42-14 | 8-3 | 29-9 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-5 | 0-0 | 17-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 14-21 | 4-5 | 4-9 | 3-5 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-28 | 2-6 | 14-15 | 2-4 | 2-2 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 4-12 | 0-3 | 1-7 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 570, Kuhn reached the 1st round after defeating Felix Gill 2-6 6-2 6-3 and Cezar Cretu 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Kuhn had a good straight sets win against Cretu (6-2 6-4). During the match Kuhn scored 60 points vs Cretu’s 46. The Spaniard was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Kuhn fired 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Nicola Kuhn was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 79% (23/29) of his 1st serve and 63% (17/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kuhn broke Cretu 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Spaniard started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Nicola’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Monastir.
The Spaniard has a compiled 15-5 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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